Webastardo - replacement controller ECU for Webasto water coolant heaters // part 1 

Most interesting to see all the parameters evoluting in the serial monitor. Great video. Thank you David. Cheers.

I got a couple of these boards made up early this year but haven't populated one yet. Thanks for doing a video on this David, I'll have to give it a go soon...

The initial 40% fan speed is just to makesure the combustion chamber is cool. It runs the fan for 120s when you first connect it to 12V. Leave it connected & it won't do it again. If you want to disable it, look in the Control tab in the Arduino IDE, line 32 which reads: if(burn_mode==0 && seconds

Hi David, great videos as always, some of it totally over my head but always informative! Any chance you could do a bit of a side by side of all the water heater options and maybe throw in a 12v stored hot water heater as well! I’m curious as to what you think the best option would be considering, cost, space, ease of install and use, I like the bobil heater but think the 12v stored water option maybe better? Any thoughts?

Dear friend! A very good and effective project! I have been watching closely since the beginning. Like! request! Could you replace the standard greeting) And sometimes the speakers fall off the table)

wee-bastard would be a good name for a webasto replacement ECU imo

Might be applicable for a air heater. I want to make the same thing for air heater. I would be adding a exhaust temp sensor as well so most of the layout of that code could save me time. Afterburner wont work for me as I need dual fuel pumps control

Hi David love you’re Chanel I’m currently making one of your boards and have ordered from jlcb but the d-7 diodes and the 330capacitors are unavailable is there a equivalent you can suggest thanks for any help you can give me a keep up the outstanding entertainment and intuitive videos 👍

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Cool project! Really interested to see how this can add new functionality to a diesel heater... Does the software also take care about setting room/water temperature and maintaining it?

Hi David I was just watching this video and realised my exhaust temperature only goes to just over 150 degrees

Please do a review on the Doogee S98 Pro phone!🙏

Hi! Have a question here. Looking to build 2 of these controllers to heat up my garage. Is it possible to use Arduino nano instead of adafruit?

Im having issues with a webasto thermo top evo setting a code for unsufficient coolant flow, ive tried a new pump, harness, whole other webasto unit, redesigned the plumbing several times, added a second pump, is this something you could fix for me with a new pcb board? i have the webasto pc diag tool if that helps

you say anybody else can do it, but I can't, me and code are best enemies, I hate it, it hates me, I can't even get the stuff to work on a ZX Spectrum (not that ol' Sir Clive made it easy!!) to draw pretty patterns on the screen, never mind anything like this... :P

HI David, I bought a Chinese webasto look alike for my Camper, a replacement for the deceased Eber I had. I want to use it as a night heater rather than a block heater. the china ECU has a few challenges! fundametally it heats the water to a set temp, then switches off, also it has a run time limit. not quite night heater behaviour! it does do a good job of making hot water via a plate heat echanger. The question, does Simon's design heat the water to a set point, then calm down to maintain the temp? also does it have a limited runtime? If it ticks these boxes, how confident can I be that it is safe under the van... appreciate you can't 'guarentee' it is safe etc... Thanks Ian

Can someone explain me one thing. I got webasto thermo top evo comfort (parking) 5kw. But on its side there is volkwswagen symbol, i have been told that it is for specific cars and will not work otherwise. Other party tells me , that i can purchase any telestart webasto kits with w-bus output and will work just as fine as an preheater. Who's right in this situation, need an answer :(

@DavidMcLuckie , @SirVodkat would you possibly have spare pcb to part with ?

Hi David, what are the specs of the diodes on the board? I got the 5 pcb built but the diodes are missing because on the BOM it just says D-7.5, thanks

Hi David did the boards come part assembled

Hi! Can this code be rewritten and work on an esp 8266 microcontroller?

hi david is there any more info on the webastardo boards/software,cheers mick

I’m in Moray if you want to part with one of your boards👍👍

I am trying to get a control board for a web as o thermo topV, would you have one available as I am struggling to get one! Cheers Rob

Im trying to run a d5wz and having no luck at all. The learning curve on arduino IDE is massive. I don't understand how to view the serial data; the only time i can even see the board on a COM port is by putting it into programming mode by double clicking the reset button. The heater seems to do something when power is applied and I really want to see the code running as I know the code will need tweeking to get working with a different setup. Im also burning out FET's left and right even with heat sinks. I had to use a relay for the glow plug because of this but it seems that the heater only wants to do anything if theres an actual load present like even a small bulb applied across the relay. I also seemed to brick or fry one feather already, no idea how. This thing has all these different status rainbow lights and shit but nobody will tell you what it means. I cant seem to get either feather to do the " rainbow led" thing when plugged into USB anymore, not sure if that goes away if theres a "sketch (is that their term for friggen code? ) . I wish i could also just read the board and see whats programmed on it to verify with my eyes its got the code on it. I got a thermotop on the way but i figured id try to get my d5 going since the thermotop is a month out. Ill buy more feathers and build up a new board with the thermotop and give it another go...i guess.

Hi, I have 2 heaters Top C and I need them to connect to my garage. But I don’t start up them. I’m try pin 1 to 12v Pin 3 to 12v PLEASE HELP Thank you

OK, help out this bear of little brain! I have successfully connected the Adafruit to my computer and downloaded the first demonstration code (flashing LED). Now what code do I download to the adafruit to start playing? On the sites there are several codes, is there one all in solution?

Anybody Selling these yet? I want to get my hands on a couple but just cannot figure out how to order the parts having issues with the links, can someone point me in the right direction please?

Are you interested in selling one of your spare boards :)

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Hi David, great videos as always, some of it totally over my head but always informative! Any chance you could do a bit of a side by side of all the water heater options and maybe throw in a 12v stored hot water heater as well! I’m curious as to what you think the best option would be considering, cost, space, ease of install and use, I like the bobil heater but think the 12v stored water option maybe better? Any thoughts?