Diesel/Kerosene Heater Installation on Fishing Boat
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- čas přidán 25. 01. 2023
- Staying warm in the cold weather makes it much more pleasant. Although many will use a propane based heater on a fishing boat, forced air Diesel/Kerosene heaters provide a dry heat.
This video will cover some installation tips as it relates to installing on a boat. - Sport
Thank you for the video. I have many diesel heaters in rvs trucks etc. I am putting one in my 20 ft crestliner tournament open bow. I was just curious. How noise is the exhaust on the water? Do you notice it or ?
Its not too bad. In this install (in this specific video) its a hard top; so for the most part you don't hear it other than when you are at the dock and right in front of the exhaust port. At the helm, I do not hear it. They do make exhaust muffler/silencers, but you need to be careful with some of these as they have a small drain on many of them and they could potentially leak exhaust through these into the cabin. Personally, the exhaust noise has not been an issue with where I placed the exhaust port outside the hull and pointed away from passengers (on this boat and on another cabin cruiser). I think the fuel pump clicking noise and getting that pump noise muffled is more advantageous as that rhythmic clicking drives me nuts.🙂
@@AFaO Great to hear. I am installing mine today. I was torn about going out the starbord side or taking it out clear to the back of the boat. Thank you for your information!!
@@jhspraker Ideally whatever is a shorter path and ideally if you can make sure the exhaust is going downhill/slight downward slope. That way any condensation can naturally run out. Some folks have had to use a condensation trap if the exhaust pipe is going uphill and is long. Short lengths going uphill (less than 3'), I have not had any issues with as long as you run the heater hot. But long runs going uphill can be troublesome with condensation.
Hey this is jay again. I was trying to find the double wall exhaust pipe that you deacribed. I have called 6 different rv places. Any chance you remember the name of the place you got yours? Thank you.
The exhaust pipe is not double wall (I believe) the double wall that I was referring to is the silicon boot which has a layer of insulation sandwiched between the two silicon layers. The exhaust pipe is the actual webasto pipe that they sold by the foot. Its a thicker gauge compared to the exhaust pipe material shipped with the Chinese heater. The RV/Marine heater distributor was Rixens Enterprises in Sandy Oregon.