Hi All,
Our first post here on this informative site. Does anyone have experience with the afterburner diesel heater controller. It looks really good and it appears it would make the control of the heater a lot better, auto starts, temperature starts and control via an app on smart phone.
Cheers
Will you please provide a link to technical details for this item?
Given the way diesel heaters work, ie. regular pulses of micro amounts of diesel, I cannot readily see how their control process may be improved beyond the controllers already in use.
I have a 5kW unit in my 25' caravan which is almost always run on minimum and when the van becomes too hot I use a hi-tech approach of opening a window at opposite ends of the van - works for me :)
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The bloke has done a lot of reverse engineering on the heater and developed an embedded product to take advantage of all the hooks into the heater's firmware he can find - how well this is done is anyone's guess. It all looks a bit amateur to me but that doesn't, necessarily, mean it's bad.
As mentioned in my previous post: because of the way these heaters work (injection) it's neigh impossible to make their performance more "friendly" and this product doesn't do much in that regard.
What it will do is provide hours of amusement and interest for people who like poking around with software and electronic thingies and setting all sorts of parameters and then resetting them because they weren't quite right and so on... for ever.
Personally I have far better things on which to spend A$150 but you may not...?
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"I beseech you in the bowels of Christ think it possible you may be mistaken"
Oliver Cromwell, 3rd August 1650 - in a letter to the General Assembly of the Kirk of Scotland
Thanks Mike, agree with your comments, I liked the way you can program it to come on when a selected ambient is reached. I emailed them and was told it only works with Bluetooth for apple devices, so an android is needed. Thats a deal breaker for me. Maybe I have to much time on my hands so time to plan another trip. Also Ill use the $150 for other things like diesel in Tom Price at $2.62/L 5 weeks ago. Thanks for your reply. Cheers
