Chinese diesel heaters for enclosed sled trailer
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The Kickass One
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Hooked mine up yesterday and it just started with zero issues. Ran it for a few hours on various heat setting. The remote even connected first try
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ah gotcha. - all in 1. Yes, I would try and connect a fuel tank lower than the heater, see if that helps. The fuel pump will pump uphill a couple meters, or it should anyway, 8-10 inches shouldn't be a problem. after that, I would say maybe try an external fuel pump.
Outwest1
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Have had my heater going for pretty much 3 years now and run it almost non stop with a ton of hours on it now. Have my fuel tank level almost with the top of the heater. Always have bubbles from the pump cavitation and doesn't really effect the heater. Run the pump on prime mode til the air bubbles hit the heater and then run as normal. I find if battery charge is a bit low it will get a little more air in line but not much and doesn't really effect the heater that much.
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greenthumb
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So I know these are basically all the same Chinese knock offs, but does any brand or model stand out as a better buy? I remember reading some time ago that certain controllers were more reliable than others. Any experience with the ones advertised as v2.0 and have bluetooth?
towerrigger
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Espar install instructions
Lightningmike
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I think that will solve my problem. Hopefully try it tmrw. Dug my heater out of the corner tonight.
Espar install instructions
FanaticalKilla
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When I took a course from Espar on installations. They said always to make sure you butt the plastic line up tight with the pump/fitting. No space between the two.
Lightningmike
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I pulled mine apart and mounted fuel tank lower with a continuous uphill climb to heater. I temporarily installed it all and ran it for 10 minutes and saw no signs of air building up. Seems to be working as small bubbles just migrate up and through burner. I am taking it as a win!
Mostly all the same. Get one with a programmable controller so you can adjust the pump frequency, do not get a "dial style" controller. Also, some people will be horrified that I will say this - but you're best to buy a Vevor or Happybuy one because at least you can return it if you need. There's a lot of knock offs of the knock offs and it will suck if you have to do a return, but the bigger companies seem to do returns easier (at least in the FB groups that I'm part of). Vevor you can buy direct off the Canadian website and most of the Vevor ones seem to be pretty good.
Outwest1
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Agree !!! Parts are easy to get as well. I keep a spare glow plug and fuel pump handy as they are cheap to buy and they are the parts that go bad I have found with the vevor. Just check the numbers on the pump for ml it puts out and run the same and good to go.
maxwell
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What’s the best budget battery to keep one of these going for a couple hours
Should I be looking at RV deep cycle 12v?
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Dawizman
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I have a couple 125Ah AGM Solar batteries in my trailer. Can run the heater for 4 nights in a row until it runs out of fuel every night without any issues.
Haven't tried any longer without plugging in.
Any generic 12V battery can keep it running, don't need a deep cycle. Start up and shut down draws about 12 amps due to the glow plug, cycles for about 1 min, that's usually the defining point. If you've got a place to plug in you can use a 120V to 12V power supply from amazon (like $30-40 - get at least a 20 amp) or its plugged into the truck while driving, there's no issues. If you can run the truck or start the heater when its plugged into shore power or on a charger, even better, that saves a big amount of amps, and after that a decent battery should run it for the better part of a day.
Lightningmike
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Saturday we were ice fishing and all be it a small shack the battery was fully charged and with heater running all day on medium it was only down to 12.1 volts. We had lights on occasionally as well
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