Fitting a Heater

[Aaldum]

Morning all,

Ok so looking to fit a heater.

Any suggestions? It cant be that hard can it but what i am after is your hard earned knowledge.

Which ones are best, easiest to use, size? Fitting location? petrol?

All that kinda stuff!

Cheers

[1664]

Take yer pick from the Club 'Wiki'.

https://club8090.co.uk/wiki/Main_Page#Heating" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

choice depends on whether you want to run it from diesel, LPG or bottled gas - unless you mean heating while hooked up to the mains?

[Aaldum]

Hi,

Yeah had a wee look through the wiki section.

Just wanted some personal experience from you kids!

[1664]

As I said they're all much of a muchness. High fuel consumption, bit noisy, suck the leisure battery down a fair bit and can refuse to work due to various problems such as low battery voltage, low fuel pressure, exhaust gas not leaving efficiently. The propex controller at least gives a sequence of flashes which you can count and then cross reference with the manual to point you in the right direction. Downside of bottled gas (if it's butane as opposed to propane) is at very low temperatures the gas can't evaporate so unless you can warm the bottle up somehow the propex won't be able to fire up. Not sure how far down diesel and propane can go temperature wise but LPG goes very low. Can't tell you about the other heaters as I have no experience of using them.

Whichever you choose, you'll thank God you did when the temperature drops

[Aaldum]

Fair enough!

So i'll assume you have gone for a LPG conversion?

How do you find it? I am thinking about it for this winter. As i am going to do loads of work to the van.

Is it easy to find? Cost efffective? Do you get problems when its hot or cold with the gas ammounts?

Cheers

Adam

[1664]

So i'll assume you have gone for a LPG conversion?

No I have other priorities unfortunately. I'm running of 907 butane bottles still. Better than nowt though.........