Clean It Up

UK Floor Cleaning Forum => Carpet Cleaning Forum => Topic started by: gwrightson on December 04, 2012, 03:02:39 pm

Title: trace heating
Post by: gwrightson on December 04, 2012, 03:02:39 pm: I was talking to a friend on sunday , he is an electician about the problems of keeping frost from van, he took an interest and suggested trace heating , not having heard of this before he went into details and seemed to think it would do the job.
he said he would look into it for me and could prob get my van kitted out quite reasonably,and even suggestef could run from a spare battery , in my case the battery for the t/m.
I wait in anticipation, he does seem to know what he is talking about he has his own company suppling low energy light fitting etc for large companys and industries.

has any body tried this method ?
geoff
Title: Re: trace heating
Post by: Mark Slaney on December 04, 2012, 03:13:15 pm: Isn't trace heating a cable run along a length of a pipe then thermal insulated. Don't how you be able to do a van.
Title: Re: trace heating
Post by: gwrightson on December 04, 2012, 03:23:23 pm: mark,
yes that was the impression i got from himhow ever he did seem to think trace wiring placed in the right paces , and even run around van would do the job.
I got to admit i am not exactly savy on this, but i will wait and see.
geoff
Title: Re: trace heating
Post by: wynne jones on December 04, 2012, 04:50:26 pm: Quote from: gwrightson on December 04, 2012, 03:23:23 pm

mark,
yes that was the impression i got from himhow ever he did seem to think trace wiring placed in the right paces , and even run around van would do the job.
I got to admit i am not exactly savy on this, but i will wait and see.
geoff

Taking on board hes the expert on this, but my thought would be the total energy in a battery producing heat would not be enough for anything other than a very mild frost. Maybe a super duper insulation job might make it viable.
Title: Re: trace heating
Post by: John Kelly on December 04, 2012, 04:55:32 pm: As Wynne says can't see anyway to provide enough energy from a 12 volt battery to heat a van Might be enough to heat the bottom of a seed tray but thats about it.
Title: Re: trace heating
Post by: Mark Slaney on December 04, 2012, 04:57:00 pm: You would have to wrap the van in loads of heat cables, not sure what output they produce. They use trace heating in under floor heating as well.
Title: Re: trace heating
Post by: Paul Moss on December 04, 2012, 05:45:34 pm: You could always try spraying your batterys on ;)

http://www.wired.com/wiredscience/2012/07/spray-paint-battery/
Title: Re: trace heating
Post by: gwrightson on December 04, 2012, 07:20:58 pm: i am in the same thought mind as you have already stated from your commentsm how ever he did seem confident in what he was saying .

Geoff