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Sail Life - How to light a Refleks diesel stove (Refleks 66)
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 11 ต.ค. 2014
- The guys at Refleks fixed my diesel stove (Refleks 66). It's finally working like it's suppose to.
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Specs for the Refleks 66:
Fuel consumption: 0.12 - 0.36 Liters pr. hour
Heat at max: 5558 BTU (1400 Kcal)
Weight: 4.5 Kg
Cool presentation! Nice heat source.
En résumé : il faut préchauffer la chambre de combustion environ 5 minutes avec de l alcool puis ouvrir la vanne de diesel.( moderato,non tropo)
Merci Mads , tu fais rêver le monde entier avec tes aventures !
Un admirateur français vivant à Copenhague.
So long and thank You.
Hi, Because of your video, i got mine to work!!! :) great, thank you.
About the custom support. It would be nice if they would have manuals off the (older) stoves to download. For ignition tips and tricks they forward to this youtube page. So if you find the Refleks support is good, your support is great!
Thx for uploading.
Glad you were able to get it figured out. Loved the whole series on the heater install. Thanks!
Thank you, Thomas :) I'm very glad you enjoyed the videos. The heater has been on for many days since uploading this video. I haven't had a single issue - other than running out of diesel in the middle of the night and that's hardly the heaters fault ;) Without question one of my favorite upgrades I've made aboard.
Thanks Mads..just working on installing one of these:- A soot reducing tip is to not throw the match in...it can only produce soot ( in small quantities but over time etc) but use a long lighter to ignite the preheat? ( Taper, gas lighter, etc)
Great video series following thru the heater issues, Thanks
Very well done! We have been restoring a Westsail 42 Ketch for the last 3 years after gutting the boat. We are now considering various boat heater options. Since we have a center cockpit, we also need to be able to heat the aft cabin. Your videos on this subject were stellar! Thank you. In time we will also create a channel to document our adventures.. In the meantime, yours is on our daily list! Fair Winds and Following Seas! s/v Harmony
Tks for this detailled series about installing and running a Refleks. As I plan a living on a boat in 2016 (hopefully) on a Trimaran front East coast of Canada (around Nova Scotia) all year (inclusive winter) the heating system is a big issue... and as Tris have lack of space, its a specific issue to think about a "low space consuming" heating sytem, e.g. this 66 Refleks offers. Great, another problem solved in my pre-plannings on a long, long list of questions. Many tks... really appreciate it... and as already noticed by others: Great you show this patiency going through all the little tasks, challenges and problems ! I suppose it is one of the key factors to success (in any form of project). Happy & Safe sailing !
+ElJay Arem P.S.: if yo ulike to take a look, I document my own search for the right trimaran (for living + working) on a little wordpress blog. Just google "Trimaran Enthusiasts" and you find WTE - World of Tri Enthusiasts easily. :-)
Great channel!
Great detail.
Thanks for the efforts, talent, time and honesty in your edits
More than refleks ever offered in ANY installation details
Always amazed at the lack of videos by major manufact. Of boat heaters, or the big 4-5 retailers if same
I do still ponder the merits of say the 9000-12000 dickenson propane heater
Finn Green Thank you, Finn :) I'm glad you enjoyed the videos. The guys at Refleks seemed to like my videos too. They are a tiny company, and I can see how spending time and money on a video may be a hard decision. Like I mentioned in one of the videos whenever I called them or needed support they were very forthcomming. My next boat will have a Refleks stove too that's for sure :)
Had not heard of the refleks stove before, very interesing! Thanks!
Thank you so much for the honorable mention. I feel like a superstar :-)
You are a very patient man!
Looks great Mads and glad to hear it is working well now! Thanks for the mention and I'll be sure to post this latest video on my FB page!
These are the best (How To) videos I've seen !
Tom Murphy Wow, thank you so much Tom :-)
Superb! The stove looks great Mads, good to see it working as it should.
Well done!!! I thought there had to be a problem as you seemed to go through everything correctly.
Mads, great job and very enjoyable to watch. Looking forward to viewing the next projects!
Thank you, Christian :) I'm glad you enjoyed the videoes. The Refleks videos are my only larger project so far, but there will be more come spring :)
Hello ,
Your stove is so cool!
thank you so much for your videos .... I use them both to improve understanding of my English .... and also because they are fun.
Thanks so much.
Greetings from Florence.
Thanks for all those interesting videos, I'll definitely buy and install such a stove on my next boat.
Great videos ! Thanks a lot for your time and effort to share all this . The last one on the Refleks is of great help for me in my installation of a stove before winter arrives here. 🙏👍
These stoves are great, but yours is still running very slightly rich, the flame shows signs of a yellow flame, wait until the stove is hot and been running a few hours and turn down the top end needle-screw half a turn each time until the yellow flame goes away....What you are looking for is a dancing blue flame......This is hotter and uses less fuel too..
+Kristian Winder Thanks! I'll give that a try :)
Did it work?
Sims marine diesel heater
I had a Refleks stove and once the initial starting problems were sorted it ran forever without a problem
Initially it would not start for us so rand refleks in Denmark and was told to light the stove with Meths and wait for the fire basket to glow red then introduce the diesel furthermore were advised to initially set the fuel at 3 or 4 When the fuel was lighting reduce the setting and the rest is history. Cannot recommend them enough The boat has since been sold
Great series of vlogs on reflex’s stoves
I had to replace my Dickinson Alaska heater because it's too hot for a smaller boat (34-foot sailboat). The Refleks 66M is much better. Lighting is not so easy, because there is no sight window and dropping a match in from the top is hit or miss, mostly miss. I think I will cut a small hole near the bottom so that I can use a lighter.
My manual says to begin with 5 cc of alcohol, but I think this is typo. error, and they might mean 15, maybe even 50. It can light with as little as 5 cc, but not easily.
So I admit about an ounce (or maybe 30 cc) of diesel and then turn off the valve. I use a video inspection device to see the diesel through the very small hole in the top of the stove. I carefully pour in the 5 cc of alcohol, and then drop in the match. It works, but not reliably. This method means the alcohol is burning on top of the diesel, but it makes sense anyway.
Ja nu ser det jo virkelig godt ud, og dejligt lydløst. Sådan et fyr med blæser larmer jo lidt, og det ser det ud til at du er fri for. Tillykke med installationen, og tak for dine link. God vind
Jätte bra... Well done and I'm so happy that its working for you well now and thanks for the two links...
I take it you've been on Delos and followtheboat, but as you say there are so many..
Cheers
Warren
s/y Legend
legend343 Mange tak :) I've been following Delos for a long time. I didn't know about followtheboat. I'll check out their videos tonight. Looks very interesting!
Smart man! Making sure you know how long will it burn until "kaput"! Better safe then sorry.
Buen día, veo que tiene un resorte que está incandescente la estufa dentro, yo tengo la misma y no lo tiene, eso lo pusieron ustedes o es original de la estufa?.. gracias
In a previous series you mentioned the reflex will not work at more than 10 degrees of heel. is that correct. seems improbable considering how fish boats roll..but the heart of this thing is that damn regulator and it's float valve.
Very nice video. Two little questions: did you make your heat screen yourself ? I cannot find a similar device at the refleks website. I mean a stainless steel heat protecting screen to build around the stove. What diameter copper pipe did you use (to transport the diesel). Is the use of fast couplings necessary, or do you need special tools to crimp the end of the copper tube ?
Thanks !
A friend of mine switched from Diesel to Kerosene in his and he says it burns much cleaner and hotter.
OMG! Mads, put the cap back on the alcohol bottle while handling matches.
Hi Mads. Regarding the position of the stove. Would it be possibly to locate the stove closer to the mast and maybe at a higher level to avoid cutting the bed. You may now have som expierence with respect to the heat beam from the stove. Rgs Jørn
Hi, how about diesel smell in the boot? By the way, your videos are awesome and Im very happy I'm not the only one who is very particular and precise with refitting a boot!!!!!
Nice
Stove
Nice
Videos
Please May I ask where the air inlet is
Decent burner! Will it suck out all oxygen in the room? I don't know much about boating, maybe there's a method to deal with that?
Seems like pre-heating the coil could be done faster and safer with a soldering torch.
What dose the chimney smell like if you are outside? Could it be used in a cabin without the neighbours smelling it?
one its on do can you just leave it running for months or do you have to keep turning it off and on? also does it have to be off to refil disel?
Faults in the regulator are fixable if you live in Denmark
Bit of a concern for those of us who don't
Hej, Någon som har en Glembring i sin båt ???
Hi Mads, thanks for the great vids with reflex! I'd like to put a reflex 66 in my van. unfortunately I have noone here who owns one. Was it able to keep the boat at 20*C in like -10*C outside temperature? I could grab the next bigger stove but that means a bigger dia flu pipe as well.
I also have fallen in love with the tiny cookplate on top of the 66. Have you tried heating water up there or is it more to keep things warm?
Thanks and greetings from hamburg
martin
We do have the 66 in our RV van and boiling water on top of the oven is quicker than doing so on the electric oven.
We need to run the oven on the lowest settings possible, because 1.4kw is more as needed for the RV
CruisingTheCut brought me here.
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How much space did you need to install it?
Is there any diesel smell in the cabin?
Buy a Dickinson diesel fired heater and sit back and relax. You won't have to be on with customer service everyday lol
where can I buy it ?
🙂👍🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻
What's the cost of running the stove?
Robert Larsen Check out this video :) th-cam.com/video/Py3_XBxy-ms/w-d-xo.html Of course, the cost of running the stove is going to vary greatly depending on several factors. I like it hot down below during the winter (25-29 degrees Celsius). Currently, the cost is somewhere between 100 USD and 200 USD.
+Robert Larsen I read about 6 litres per 24 hours... as most boaters run the Refleks steadily 24h x 7d. So you can say every 4 hours one litre or 0.25 ltr / hour. E.g. as I plan a living on a boat front Canada East coast, with the diesel prize for now and calculating 5 months heating of one year, the monthly costs will be round about 55 Euros monthly in average (over whole year for 930 litres per year). So in total its roughly 660 Euros / year = 720 US dollars... if you calculate, that you can heat your water for tea and coffee, you can dry your clothes, too... effectively the heating costs will be lower. Actually for my land living I have 42% higher heating costs (same using the heating system over 5 month from Nov till April). Not too bad I would say... and the Refleks stovens arent too expensive with the benefit, no risks for problems with electronics as we know from Webasto and Epersbaecher.
+ElJay Arem Have to get a tanker I?
Do you dare to leave it on when you leave the boat? Or do you turn it off when you go out?
Also, how important is boat insulation?
LIFE IS LIKE SAILING....impossible to look at...
The rock music is too much and too loud....hope you never make that mistake....people who look at sailing videos like quiet and peace!
Mads, I am a psychic (or psycho) and I foresee big changes coming in your life! You will lose interest in Obelix and buy a bigger boat. You will spend your life and fortune working on it to make it completely different from what you liked when you bought it! You will meet a hot chick that will turn you to mush! I see you being "forced" out of your own country because of her! I forehear you acquiring a "brogue" to your speech! I can see a change of diet to haggis which is who-knows-what! But I see a LOT of smiles and more DIY stuff requiring many different 'thingies". So way off in the distant future, I will still watch, as long as that hot chick is in it! ;)