Can I ask what brand you're using? The block heaters I've looked at have really varied a lot in apparent quality.
--Rick On 10/14/2013 12:31 PM, Electric Blue auto convertions wrote: > For the last 20 years or so I have been putting a diesel block heater > in the conversions I do for heat, Its a aluminium bottle with an > input and out put water system, a heating element in the bottom, you > wire it to your dash heat fan switch, with a 60 amp or 75 amp relay, > then to the traction pack for 100 volts DC. it will cook a hot dog at > the vents, this runs the floor heat, defrost, dash vents. they come > in 800 W. to 2500 watts , then add a hot water pump @ 12 volts all > tied together, pulls 15 amps @800 watts . I also put a hot water tank > thermostat to the bottle and set it at 140 Deg, this shuts the > traction pack off and on when needed, it works, its simple and it > looks like it BELONGS there , you use the existing heater core and > water tubing _______________________________________________ UNSUBSCRIBE: http://www.evdl.org/help/index.html#usub http://lists.evdl.org/listinfo.cgi/ev-evdl.org For EV drag racing discussion, please use NEDRA (http://groups.yahoo.com/group/NEDRA)
