5 Things you need to know about diesel heaters

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(2023-14) In this video we talk about 5 things we learned owning a diesel heater.
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@Montana_Outdoor_Adventures 11 дней назад

Very good summary of diesel heater use. Cleaning out the burn chamber before shutdown is your best tip, this will greatly increase the time between burn chamber cleanings. Great video!!!

@johnsowhat1161 10 месяцев назад

Short and to the point. Great video thanks!

@paulethier3416 8 месяцев назад

Glad you enjoyed it!

@patrickcagney8060 5 месяцев назад

Straightforward and helpful. Thank you!

@paulethier3416 5 месяцев назад

Glad it was helpful!

@Rstpete1 3 месяца назад

Excellent!

@erikalmighty 6 месяцев назад

First off, its not an 8000 btu heater. Its an 8 kilowatt heater which translates approximately to 27,000 BTU’s.

@paulethier3416 6 месяцев назад

Thank you for clarifying.

@msa5202 6 месяцев назад

ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-nuYC3KPG3lc.htmlsi=n_g5EAVL0pdJAHVU it is actually 10500 BTUs

@krimke881 5 месяцев назад

Also. There's not one of the Chinese diesel heaters that is rated 8kw. The burn chamber are tte same on the acclaimed 5kw and 8kw. In addition, it spends fuel to the amount of 5kw, it does not nearly put out 5kw of heat. So therew two models. 2.5kw, and the 5kw. It's been picked apart by many and well documented :) Of you want a proper one, but still cheap. Get a lavaneer/lavaner. Chinese heater, only it's assembled properly, actually quality controlled, tested, and every spec are open to the public. 👌🏼

@Xanderbelle 3 месяца назад

Also. Burns half a litre per hour. But kw energy available from a litre of diesel is 10kwh (38Mj)

@bobbailey4954 6 месяцев назад

I like the straight forward explanation the cause and effect approach.

@paulethier3416 6 месяцев назад

Thank you. Glad you enjoyed the video.

@RobertBee-fs8hv 9 месяцев назад

Thanks for the presentation

@paulethier3416 8 месяцев назад

Thank you! The diesel heater thing has been a learning experience for me. I'm heading into my second winter so we will see what happens this year.

@Tonedog88 8 месяцев назад

Great video actually changed my procedure. Thanks for the "leave it on high when shutting down" suggestion. Makes sense to me!

@paulethier3416 8 месяцев назад

I'm happy you enjoyed the video. Thanks for the comment. I appreciate it.

@beatriceannbaker3350 4 месяца назад

I bought one for my green house. It should be here in March. Thanks for the information!!

@paulethier3416 4 месяца назад

I think you will like it. Just make sure your exhaust is lower and can drain any moisture.

@davidjones8680 10 месяцев назад

Thanks for this short but sweet video, it has provided useful information. I am just considering the purchase of one of these type of heaters for my newly commissioned mobile workshop. Its 7 x 12 x 6 feet high, and basically is just a cargo box that I forklift onto the back of my flat bed truck. I often get sent to really remote locations in the depths of winter to fix stuff, and I find that stuff sure gets fixed quicker when i am warm. David in the UK.

@paulethier3416 10 месяцев назад

That sounds like an awesome setup. One of these heaters would work great for that. I do recommend the fuel line upgrade. I think there’s a link on that video for it in the description. It just seems to make it run a little bit better I don’t really know why it does but it does.

@northman77 6 месяцев назад

Well... I know what I need to know now! This is useful. I will still need my propane heater but not as much.

@paulethier3416 6 месяцев назад

Thanks for commenting.

@IAm1InTheIAm 9 месяцев назад

Good vid, Paul, thanks for the info. I put the smaller version in my VW bus and can run it down to around zero F°. Key to keeping it happy are clean fuel, I use kerosene, seems to make a big difference, and like you say, run it on high most of the time to clean it out- its gotta get hot enough to burn efficiently 👍

@paulethier3416 9 месяцев назад

Thank you!

@MsLightbar 7 месяцев назад

Hey, A 911EP 360 Star behind ya. Love it!

@paulethier3416 7 месяцев назад

Had that thing forever 😂😂😂😂

@MsLightbar 7 месяцев назад

@paulethier3416 nice. That one is roughly 20 years old. I like the products from that company so it caught my eye.

@speedfreak8200 4 месяца назад

Thanks for the tips, I want something I don't have to modify just to make it function properly... one of these days

@darrellfincher2948 8 месяцев назад

You could spray foam between your rafters and get even better heat retention plus I guarantee you you'll use less fuel plus it will heat lots quicker

@paulethier3416 8 месяцев назад

I was thinking about that and I also have to get my walls insulated. Just trying to figure out a cost-effective way of doing it.

@eyeorewolf 8 месяцев назад

Great video. You said the diesel heater isn't the end all be all solution for a garage heater but from the standpoint of economics it actually might be. Your video gave me good insight as to how one of these units may help my situation. I have a 30x40 uninsulated pole barn so I would likely get poor results until I decide to insulate my barn. Either way if it take some off the chill of without gagging me like my torpedo heater I would call that a win.

@paulethier3416 8 месяцев назад

I agree. Thanks for the comment. After doing multiple home projects this summer I’m saving up so that in the spring I can start insulating my garage. That should give me really good results. It’s definitely better than a torpedo heater. Good luck with the pole barn.

@augustusmaximus891 7 месяцев назад

What's a torpedo heater? A propane fanned blower type?

@eyeorewolf 7 месяцев назад

Mine runs on diesel or kerosene. It is an always on forced air heater that puts out a lot of heat but I have mine on a thermostat that can be placed in various locations around the heater to just meet a desired temperature in relation to the high temperature output. The negative side is the fumes are not separate from the heat like they are with the parking heaters. Torpedo heaters are intended as a short term heat solution in large well ventilated areas. Parking heaters can be set up as a more permanent heat solution.@@augustusmaximus891

@aaronallenlmt 7 месяцев назад

Didn't see anyone mention it yet (though I didn't scroll very far) but placing the combustion air intake outside the garage will stop it from sucking in cold outdoor air from every crack and crevice in your structure, likely improving on the 20 degree temp difference you've been achieving. Just food for thought, and I can think of times you may want that fresh air infiltration despite the inefficiency. Thanks for a great, short, informative video.

@paulethier3416 6 месяцев назад

Yes, someone here did mention that. I just haven't done it yet. Maybe someday. Thanks for commenting.

@UQRXD 5 месяцев назад

WARNING!:Be very careful with combustion air intake inside. If power fails during a firing cycle the unit will not have the shut down cycle. This means the combustion chamber is full of fuel and it will vaporize unburned and come out the intake tube. Choking fumes that really stink. Never leave it running unattended.

@PainterD54 4 месяца назад

If you run your heater on low, it will speed up and clean out the burn chamber before it shuts down. I noticed that on mine after running mine all night on 2 kz I shut it down and the fan sped up and the glowplug came on to burn off any residual fuel in the chamber.

@paulethier3416 4 месяца назад

Mine does that on shut down, the fan ramps up for a bit before it shuts down.

@whalesmiff5712 6 месяцев назад

I installed a Chinese Diesel heater in my 6x12 cargo trailer conversion... I spent all my effort making sure I properly exhausted the unit through my 1 inch insulated wall using a thru-hull stainless outlet as well as using high-temp RTV around my exhaust hose with high quality hose clamps, and thought everything was great.. I now know that I need to also properly setup a thru-hull port for the combustion intake (away from the exhaust). These devices are primitive.. don't trust that the exhaust flow will happen in one direction with 100% certainty... and don't expect your Home Depot CO detector to save you either.. I've smelled the funky smell, and let it go... and it made me pretty sick.. Don't ignore it... do it right. ...also, if you drop the diesel pump frequency, the exhaust-to-intake leak is even worse... Treat the combustion intake just as important as the exhaust itself.

@paulethier3416 5 месяцев назад

Thanks for commenting and sharing this.

@Jrod_FPV 4 месяца назад

Are you running your air intake inside the garage and your exhaust outside the garage? If so you are pulling cold outside air into the garage and making the heater less effective. Maybe it doesn't make a huge difference since you're not insulated garage anyway but you may be able to run your intake outside and achieve higher temperatures in the garage.

@FlexMoePower 3 месяца назад

This heater is really about 10K btu. Diesel contains about 33K btu per liter, burn rate is about .35l an hour on high, so only 10K ish btus are available for heat if it were 100% efficient. But with all that heat escaping as exhaust its not giving full btu as diesel has. To reclaim exhaust heat I put a 6' stainless exhuast ran through aluminum downspouting filled halfway with sand. This helps extract lost exhaust heat along with a small fan. Hope this helps.

@paulethier3416 3 месяца назад

Thanks for the info and the great idea.

@joec8231 Месяц назад

Cheaper off ebay for same thing, but why cant people wait a few days for delivery

@migmagingenieria 10 месяцев назад

Thanks for sharing man!!! I am so not looking forward for the winter here in Alberta, yet I must start now getting ready for it. Cheers!

@vwaudiwelder Год назад

Awesome! I wonder if this bad boy would run on 50/50 diesel and filtered waste motor oil?

@paulethier3416 Год назад

I know people tried it and it works for some but I’ve not tried it myself

@paddledafam9873 Год назад

Don’t! Just don’t…you’ll have nothing but trouble…they run very frugal and trouble free on diesel, kero, or heating oil..just a headache playing around with alternative fuels and why? It’s not a truck getting 10mpg it’s a DIESEL heater running 8hrs on one gallon at high 😂 do you want to ice skate uphill also 🤷‍♂️ FYI, increase the minimum set fan speed for cleaner combustion on low, it soots up because of being too rich fuel/air mixture. A little research will turn up the master code for your model. Once the unit is at operating temperature, bump up the set fan speeds so hardly no black smoke is seen from exhaust. I went up 200rpms and haven’t had issues with soot buildup since. Before that; If the heater did soot up or got flooded with fuel, a trick I used was a shop vac hose hooked up to the vac exhaust as to blow in the intake at a high volume and blow out excess fuel or carbon without disassembling the whole thing.

@enigmaticloremaster1700 Год назад

They will run on filtered waste oil + diesel but you will only get 2 maybe 3 tanks of fuel through it before it blocks up the burn chamber and then need a major cleaning. If you don't mind cleaning them out 2 times a week it's fine, they will run on mixtures of waste oil and diesel. I think they are over rated and very labor intensive. Once the inside of the flame chamber gets full of soot there is a gauze in there that is supposed to glow red hot to help combustion, this gauze can not be seen unless it is cut in half , but when it is clogged with carbon and soot it will begin to carbon up faster each time between cleans. As I wrote in the above comment the only real way to clean behind this gauze where the gunk builds up is to use Hydrochloric acid. Because there is no access for tools to be used on this part unless the burn chamber is cut open.

@UQRXD 5 месяцев назад

@paulethier3416 5 месяцев назад

Thank you for sharing this information with us

@jan_vyhnak 8 месяцев назад

1:50 they were saying lot of things. I didnt seen one important. this filter can be unscrew to be opened and cleaned. For this you need the dirt to be outside of the screen. The clogging reasons seems to me like nonsense.

@paulethier3416 8 месяцев назад

Thank you for commenting.

@garethchurton212 7 месяцев назад

I bought one it lasted about 6 hours before it packed up Think it's worth spending that bit more on a quality one Well watching this video I have learnt a lot thankyou

@paulethier3416 7 месяцев назад

Sorry to hear that. Other than the initial carbon problem that I think has been resolved mine seems to be working ok.

@Turboboob 4 месяца назад

Is the filter kit necessary? I know a guy who has had one on his semi for years and doesn’t run a filter… seems like you just added some failure points to the system.

@paulethier3416 4 месяца назад

I don’t believe the filter is necessary. In fact, mine failed early on this year in the fall, I could not find one locally so I ordered one. In the meantime I’m ran it without a filter, still going strong 3 months later.

@strikeryachts 5 месяцев назад

It's 8 kw not btu.

@palthomsen1396 11 дней назад

Shouldn't you have the intake from the outside, so you don't make underpreassure?

@paulethier3416 11 дней назад

Yes, probably but my garage is not very tight anyway. If to have an insulated garage then it’s an absolute must

@raytandy8142 6 месяцев назад

Hi is it ok to run the heater fuel pipe 14 ft length thank you

@paulethier3416 6 месяцев назад

Im not sure. I’ve seen people try to capture the exhaust heat by running it through a heat exchanger. So I guess it could work.

@joeschlepp 7 месяцев назад

so when its minus 45deg celcius where i live it'll raise the temp 20deg to minus 25 deg. perfect i can work in my garage in a t shirt and shorts.

@paulethier3416 7 месяцев назад

My experience with my uninsulated garage is 20 degrees f above the outside temperature. If you have a bigger area or more insulation it could be different in your situation.

@0ptimal 5 месяцев назад

Lmao.

@dyrectory_com 8 месяцев назад

Can you still smell the diesel from the fuel container?

@paulethier3416 8 месяцев назад

No, there is no diesel smell

@martinpanks992 6 месяцев назад

The harder fuel line makes zero difference as there isnt any pressure in the fuel line when running, it is basically gravity fed and the pump just meters the flow it dosent pump under pressure..

@paulethier3416 6 месяцев назад

Thanks for commenting and sharing this information.

@rockardbiker 6 месяцев назад

How many amps is your 12v power supply please,

@paulethier3416 6 месяцев назад

15amp continuous, 18amp surge

@everythingtiranavasilshant3127 8 месяцев назад

I have one question about It With 1 liter Oil how long it will work i mean how long it will Heat exactly

@paulethier3416 8 месяцев назад

With the on-board tank full and running on high it will run for about 14 hours. I never run it on a lower setting so I'm not sure how long that would last on low. I suspect it would run 24hours on low setting. Thanks for the comment.

@everythingtiranavasilshant3127 8 месяцев назад

@@paulethier3416 thankyou so much sir and how can i order one of this in my country in kosovo

@paulethier3416 8 месяцев назад

I'm not sure if you have access to Amazon but there are links in the description for the heater and other parts.

@everythingtiranavasilshant3127 8 месяцев назад

@@paulethier3416 thank you god bless you ✌️

@zzz7zzz9 2 месяца назад

@@paulethier341632 1/2 hours on low, some people are getting.

@benhawke7231 Год назад

Just throw some diesel 911 in it when it gets super cold.

@paulethier3416 Год назад

It doesn’t get cold enough to gel the diesel. The heater is just not strong enough without insulation. I’m happy I bought it and used it this winter. It really is cheap affordable heat. Thanks for commenting.

@DonziGT230 6 месяцев назад

Lots of heat is dumped out the exhaust and you maximized the waste by insulating it; why?

@paulethier3416 6 месяцев назад

I wrapped the exhaust to protect from radiant heat. Thanks for the question.

@TheOneNOnly88 6 месяцев назад

How long does a tank of diesel last?

@paulethier3416 6 месяцев назад

I get about 12 hours or so on high setting.

@yamahadunes 5 месяцев назад

12 hours on one tank is exactly the question I wanted to ask. But the question on top of that is will a fully charged car battery run the heater for 12 hours also? I want to put it on the deck of my boat and run the heat into the cabin. The cabin is the size of a minivan.

@brianbell541 8 месяцев назад

Can u burn kerosene

@paulethier3416 8 месяцев назад

I’m not sure. I’ve heard of people mixing kerosene with the diesel. I’ve always burned regular highway diesel from the pump.

@brianbell541 8 месяцев назад

@@paulethier3416 thanks

@wayne5607 6 месяцев назад

Your fuel filter inlet should have the fuel going to the outside of the filter element. if you have the fuel go inside the element it will fill up with debris like a cup and clog the filter easier!

@paulethier3416 6 месяцев назад

Thank you for commenting. This has been pointed out to me many times. When I installed it I did not notice that I installed it wrong. Its been changed since the video.

@marcwareham9351 8 месяцев назад

You keep saying 25 degrees but you forgot to say if that’s degrees F or degrees C?

@paulethier3416 8 месяцев назад

Thanks for asking the question. The measurement is in Fahrenheit.

@JesperMLC1 3 месяца назад

thank you very much for this great video - and the others! This guy actual uses the exhaustion heat in addition to the blowing out heat: ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-6WrCJcfICF4.htmlsi=UEhwrvA9k1XAbhAV

@paulethier3416 3 месяца назад

Happy you enjoyed them.

@enigmaticloremaster1700 Год назад

They work fine for the first few months but once the inside of the flame chamber,(which has a mesh surrounding it which can't be seen unless it is cut in half ) gets full of carbon it will start to carbon up faster each time and will not combust the fuel properly causing more soot and carbon build ups in the exhaust and burn chamber. You can't pull the burn chambers apart to clean the inside and no tools will scrape away the carbon build up behind this mesh. the only thing I have found that removes it but also corrodes the mesh a bit each time is Hydrochloric acid, most the buildup turs to a black smelly sludge and can be rinsed out with water. I can't see any other way to clean this and acid was the last resort, I feared it may dissolve the mesh entirely but if done quickly with ample rinsing with fresh water seems to work fine so far. If you have an old blocked burn chamber that is not working give the acid a shot and see if it works for you.

@memadmax69 8 месяцев назад

You can get spare parts for these heaters.

@CDale-tc3xz 8 месяцев назад

Just a note - The Kw is NOT Kilowatt it's CALORIE watt. So these 8K units should be putting out 27000 BTUs.

@paulethier3416 8 месяцев назад

Thank you for sharing that, I always wondered how that converted.

@norwegiannationalist7678 7 месяцев назад

What kinda crap are you rambling on about? Kw stands for Kilowatt on these heaters and on anywhere it says Kw. I have no idea what you have smoked to come up with CALORIE WATT.

@pacopet1234 7 месяцев назад

Calorie watt hahahaha. This guy smooooke. Who is your dealer

@CDale-tc3xz 7 месяцев назад

@@pacopet1234 Took you long enough.

@stephenboyd4934 7 месяцев назад

I'd like too know how you power up this heater, because I hear on start up the glow plugs need up to 15amps / 120w supply this will drop when it's warmed up to under 10amps / 40w. Most lithium battery generators only have about 10amps max, unless it comes with a suitable brick converta this is a small problem.