Viesturs: A quick check with a search engine tells me there are tons of discussions of the relative merits of different heating techniques including opinionated folk living in extreme climates like northern Canada and Alaska, just to cite North America.
If I were adding a heater to an existing vehicle, I expect I'd go for an easily installed oil-pan heater despite the potential for scraping that you mention. Fortunately, I've never lived anywhere cold enough to justify these techniques (well, there was that winter in Chicago 40-odd years ago but I was without a car at the time. Even the elevated trains were out of service.). In my youth, dipstick-styled heaters were the rage in my grandparents' farm community in the Badlands. It seems to me that if the nights are cold enough to justify an engine heater then a battery blanket/heater would be a good idea too. Car batteries lose much of their cranking capacity as the temperature plunges. Regards, Kent ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Master Visual Studio, SharePoint, SQL, ASP.NET, C# 2012, HTML5, CSS, MVC, Windows 8 Apps, JavaScript and much more. Keep your skills current with LearnDevNow - 3,200 step-by-step video tutorials by Microsoft MVPs and experts. ON SALE this month only -- learn more at: http://p.sf.net/sfu/learnmore_123012 _______________________________________________ Emc-users mailing list Emc-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users
