DIESEL HEATER HEATING MY HOME SET UP House With Chinese Kerosene off grid style living
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 2 ธ.ค. 2023
- PUMPING HOT AIR INTO MY HOME
I bought one of these for my garage, and then thought....... I could heat my home with this! So that's exactly what i did! It is working great pumping hot air into my home. It is keeping us nice and warm and super economical.
I have a carbon monoxide detector just in case, but you don't get any fumes indoors at all
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I hope this may help you in some way. Even if it just makes an idea pop up in your head, of how you can heat your home in cheaper way.
Thanks for looking at my videos cheers Andy..... If you can be anything, be Kind.....
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Nice one again Andy thanks 😉😉
Glad you enjoyed it
Nice clean installation. I installed a unit on the external side of my house last December. I placed the diesel heater in a wall mounted wooden box and routed both the induction and heat output tubes through a marine ply panel, 24 mm in depth, through a utility room window frame.
I routed the heat output duct up through the ground floor utility and up into the bathroom above via the bathroom wooden floor. This enables me to heat the 2 bedrooms at the back of the house. I also put a large motor factor foam air filter on the cold air intake that also sits on the utility room side of the marine ply. This filter has sufficient air pass through for the diesel heater.
I use an ecoflow power bank to run the 12volt mains transformer for the d/heater and these wires, including the controller, exit through the marine ply window panel in a plastic conduit to the d/heater box. I use the ecoflow instead of plugging it directly in the mains because we get power outs down where I live. You do not want your d/heater loosing power when on full tilt as this will more than likely melt the plastic outer casing and destroy the pcb inside the unit.
Did a fair job last year of raising the internal temp of the back of the house from 7c to 15c so was okay with that. It is just a shame that I currently cannot place the heater closer to the bedrooms, but the wife does not want loads of holes cut into the brickwork.
hey , how it going cheers andy
Great, thanks.@@andyfireblade
@billie I think you should do a video sounds excellent setup . Don't worry if a bit scruffy we can see past that :)
Fitted one of these to my house last year after watching you. Ran great doesn't quite heat my whole house but i live in a single pane windowed non insulated weather board house. I get alot of dirty diesel for free and i only had to clean my heater once during last winter. Planning to get a second heater which will provide enough heat for my house when winter comes. Great things!
Great to hear! cheers andy
Not sure why people fit these outside, an exhaust and intake hole through the wall is fine with heater inside. It then draws in warm house air and warms it rather than cold outside air and warms that. Mine has been working inside for over a year now and I have it starting and stopping via voice or phone commands over Alexa.
great video and very interesting ive actually just bought one today for my self so ill be looking at your install video to set it up
thats great, i have loads of other fun videos with these heaters.
www.youtube.com/@andyfireblade
good luck cheers andy
by the way. message anytime
Exhaust fumes is what you do not want. Going into the air intake. Its very important this better with a extra long Exhaust pipe and be safer.Andy your videos are very good I am thinking of getting one of these diesel heaters for my caravan. The do look good but looking cheaply built a stronger version in stronger metal frame would be better. Anything to keep all our energy bills down. Good stuff 10 10
these would make a caravan great. yeah good idea. thanks for your comment andy
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I actually have one fitted to my static caravan , it's the perfect solution for a van. Works 100% and heats my 37ft x 12 to full toastie.
Im working on a Clothes drier with a diesel heater using a cover around an indoor maiden. Two way vent so it heats the room also.
It normaly costs me £3 with an electric drier and £5 to heat the house.
I already have two heaters and ill make a short video showing it working. There is a kerosene supplier round the corner from me so thats handy. Speak soon andy.
Just in case you didn't know … never turn the power source off from the heater supply until the heater has "powered down" on its "phased shutdown" cycle.
If you do, then the glow plug and internal heat will not be cooled/dissipated by the fan and will cause damage to at least the PCB/Motherboard circuit.
Typically a hot spot will be visible on the plastic electronics enclosure when that happens.
Good info to have, that's why I run mine from the Eco flow unit just in case we have an interruption in mains power which happens more times than I would like.
Andy can you give a brief explanation of why you changed from battery to transformer and maybe a word or two about battery (hours achieved before recharging etc) do you have an opinion about the running cost of the 12v transformer ? Thank you.
for me, i had more chance of the battery going flat than a power cut and loosing my 12v supply. when using the battery , it lasted about 5hrs. i dont know the exact running costs of the transformer, but will look into it. after the initial start up, they dont use a lot of power. cheers andy
Hi Andy, can you do a video where the intake air is taken from inside the house (recirculated) rather than outside? I would like to see if by doing this, the house would get significantly warmer.
i was thinking of doing this. good comment.
cheers andy
@andyfireblade I have a similar setup in my home office. Its particularly cold at the moment so I'm hoping by recirculating the air I'll end up with an overall warmer room and will be able to turn the heater down from setting 2 to 1.
I have recirculated air system in my static caravan. Unit sits under the van pipes come straight up from underneath into the van about 3ft apart from each other. Lovely and warm. Never put the air intake outside so can't tell you the difference to be honest but Inside it's all good !
Very interesting. Thanks for sharing. Did you prime the fuel pump before first use?
no the heater did it all!
cheers andy
Hi Andy , great informative video .
Is the model "shockflo"?
thanks, no, the name begins with a b. its outside in the box
hahhaahh cheers andy
It makes no difference what the name on the heater is, that are all made in the same factory, with just a few cosmetic differences.
Did you ever manage to wire in a battery too as a fail safe in case of an electricity cut? I can’t seem to find out how to do that. I know ow some people use a 12v battery with a charger attached too. But for some reason I don’t fancy that.
yes, please check out my other vids.
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but now i just use a 12v power supply
cheers andy
@@andyfireblade ok thanks 😊
Hello from across the pond. Do you by chance get the error code 5 on your unit being in a closed container?
no , i dont get any error codes, there is quiet a good hole in the bottom of the box
thank you for your comment did you see my other heater vids, www.youtube.com/@andyfireblade let me know what you think, cheers andy
nice Andy but where is the air intake or do ya not need one if its in the box?
hello my friend, well spotted. i didnt fit it there, but i am going to pop it on, to stop mice creeping into it for a warm.
cheers andy
@@andyfireblade are you gonna fit it into the box or outside?
@@ahmelmahay inside
Andy how does that 12v controller deal with the heat in the box?
there is no heat in the box
@@andyfireblade I did not know that..
I bought one last year after reading all of the BS about how cheap they to run, but they're not. They might be efficient heating the inside of a small van like they are designed for, but it's far cheaper to heat your whole house with the central heating on than one room with the diesel level dropping in the fuel tank at an alarming rate. Be prepared to spend a lot more on diesel than you expected. They are also very temperamental. They constantly break down with numerous error messages (usually when your house is freezing cold). I spent most of last winter shivering whilst waiting for replacement parts to arrive from eBay due to the poor Chinese build quality. Stick to proven technology if you must, like the paraffin heaters used in the 70's that only had a wick to worry about and don't ruin your house (if you own it), by drilling large holes in the wall.
Mine has worked flawlessly for well over a year now. It is cheap to run on red diesel and works well with batteries and solar when there is a power cut.
When you talk about the BS, that is because the majority of people are happy with this whereas you are a minority.
Here's an experience you don't see too often
I've got 3 now, had them for a couple of years. They've worked very well for me, reliable and economical with plenty of warmth.
I run mine on kerosene , it's £1 a litre here in Waltham abbey from online fuels .
Not everyone has the capital for 5 to 20k for central heating or heat pumps [that don't work] and you can take it with you, like to see that with a set of radiators. DH
Just some observations. There is no air vent into the wooden box, so it will just find a path of least resistance, probably through the hole in the bottom. Perhaps a vent in the opposite side to the exhaust will help reduce the risk of it pulling in any exhaust fumes. Also you're obviously heating cold outside air rather than recycling the indoor air. This isn't necessarily a bad thing, as both ways have their pros and cons, perhaps a future upgrade would be to have an adjustable vent from the house back to the box, to get the best of both ways.
good comments thanks andy