On 1/19/2013 4:22 PM, Viesturs Lācis wrote: > Hello! > > Winter has arrived with temperatures below -20C, so I finally decided > to something about inability to start up car's engine in these cold > mornings. > There are lots of options for auxiliary heating with fuel and > electricity. I found on ebay a nice heater that works from fuel, but > it costs some 600 EUR. > I found out that my parents have installed some electrical heaters in > several of our tractors. They are cheap (something around 70 EUR) and > work good, but the problem is that there is no pump inside the unit, > just heater. In tractors they are specially placed relatively low to > the engine so that the cooling liquid flows naturally as it is heated. > I do not think that it is possible in car, so the question is: > Can anyone suggest a small pump, powered by AC electricity and, what > is most important, that will work in -20C, -30C temperature? I was > thinking about all these aquarium pumps - size is great, flow rate > also good, but I am reserved about them working below 0C. > > Is there something for a reasonable price? > Thanks in advance! > > Viesturs,
I have a couple of diesel powered trucks. Most of them have the plug style block heaters that screw into the engine block to keep it warm. Those work well. I also have a semi tractor and installing a screw in block style heater was near impossible due to the frame around the engine. So I installed one of these: http://www.amazon.com/Kats-13150-Aluminum-Circulating-Heater/dp/B000BQUUR6/ref=sr_1_3?ie=UTF8&qid=1359301989&sr=8-3&keywords=engine+heater It works really well heating up a 855 cu in / 14 liter diesel engine block. I have the heater mounted about in the vertical center of the block and it somehow "pumps" the coolant around, it is not just convection. You can here the coolant flow, it may be a steam expansion cycle of something. I'm not sure, but it works very well. I don't know if you can get full access to Amazon.com from your country.. if not try a proxy server here in the US to get "local" access and then do a search on "engine heater". My search returned over 2000 results! They have every sort of engine heater imaginable listed. Dave ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ 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/learnnow-d2d _______________________________________________ Emc-users mailing list Emc-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users
