[prestigeclean]

does anyone use an eberspacher night heater to stop the van from freezing overnight and is it agood piece of kit regards alan

[Rob_Mac]

Ive got one. Expensive but bloody brilliant. Run on red diesel and hardly use any at all!!

Rob

[colin purewater]

Red diesel??? Were can I find one of theese heater?

[Rob_Mac]

Got mine off ebay. Paid about £350.00 for it!!

Not cheap but superb warm air heater!

Rob

[colin purewater]

Owfff pricey 

[Frankybadboy]

basicaly same heater that are used in hgv as night heaters

[Rob_Mac]

That is a secondhand price. You can pay over a thousand for a new one!!!

Rob

[josh]

http://www.pfjones.co.uk/eberspacher-airtronic-vw-t5-d2-kit.html

[Spruce]

I have one of these in the van. I personally don't think it would make a good overnight frost heater solution IMHO. Mine takes a while to get up to temperature - it's not instant heat.
It's quite battery power hungry - on startup it will draw about 100 watts for a couple of minutes - that's 2 headlamp bulbs on. It will then draw between 10 and 35 watts, depending on what heat stage its running on. Fuel can be anything between a 1/10th of a litre to a 3/10 of a litre of diesel per hour. Over night that does add up.

Obviously this is nothing in a truck when compared to how much fuel it will use (7 gallons an hour fully laden) - the reason why truck drivers aren't allowed to run their engines overnight to heat their cab as that would create a lot of wasted fuel and polution.

BT had them fitted to their vans as the cost and use of them was far cheaper than the technicians idling their vans all day to keep the cab warm whilst sitting waiting for the next call, even using standard road fuel.

I don't know who would sell you small quantities of red diesel to use with your heater either. It would also mean having to fit a separate tank for it and I don't know what the regulations are with regard to where it is allowed to be fitted.

Spruce

[Frankybadboy]

spruce

belive me they keep you warm in a hgv,lived with one for best part of 14 year,has a driver over europe

[bobplum]

spruce

belive me they keep you warm in a hgv,lived with one for best part of 14 year,has a driver over europe

aaahhhh halcyon days
bob

[Spruce]

spruce

belive me they keep you warm in a hgv,lived with one for best part of 14 year,has a driver over europe

I agree, they work fine, but having them ticking over as a frost heater every winter night I believe won't work. I would hate the expense of running mine at 5 to 10 degrees every night.
Also mine hasn't got a silencer and sounds like a jet engine on takeoff. I can hear it get going while I'm around the back of the house cleaning windows. OK to use during the day, but neighbours would object at night.

I use it to keep the van cab warm for the dog during the day and also to defrost myself as and when - getting soft in my old age.

[Cedaronics]

Here's a wfp tank with heat traced pipes - picture taking during installation and before the insulation was applied.

[Smudgeoff Cleaning Services]

They are mainly used in motor homes etc but alot of motor home companys now use the Whale space heater ( amazing bit of kit but just shy of a £1000 new.
Daz

[CLEANCARE WC]

your an eberspacher!!!