Anyone got an Eberspacher diesel heater?

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If so will it work all night in the winter? I have recently fitted a used one, and I propose to go away this weekend. How much fuel will it use overnight? Something in the instructions alludes to it turning off after one hour. What? Surely that can't be right, you can't expect to be turning it back on every hour?
I am going to sleep in the camper tonight with the temp set to something like ten degrees and see what happens. IF I freeze and have to break down the house front door to get in, I will rip out the Eberspacher and find a used Carver convector to replace the one that some idiot removed before I bought it.
 
Thanks Richard, so the fuel situation is fine. I did get this second hand so I hope it's not an ex-BT one. I set it running a bit over an hour ago so I had better run outside and see if it is still working.
 
Yes, it's fine. I set it to 18ºC and it is there, all up and running. I have 200AH of lithium and when I get to Goosnargh I will have travelled for over two hours so it should be fully charged. I will leave it disconnected from EHU tonight, sleep in it with the heater running and see what the battery is like in the morning. There was a fault code when I interrogated it but I will put that down to it having been used, then disconnected, then I bought it and fitted it. It was fault 52, something to do with supply voltage low, that would have been when it was disconnected.
 
I used to leave my Eberspacher on all the time when it got cold just turned low at night. If it is turning off it will be the installation/controller as others have said.
 
RichardHelen262 said:
Some fitted to bt vehicles had a 1 hour timer, but otherwise they should run all night as long as your battery keeps up,
Fuel wise they use 1 litre every seven hours
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Ah thankfully mine does not have a 1 hr timer, it worked all night last night and I didn't wake up shivering.
I think it used about 1 litre, from what I can judge looking at the transluscent diesel tank fitted just behind the driver's seat.

What I did notice is that it takes a lot longer to warm the inside of the camper than the old Carver convetor heaters did. I am an idiot - I should have just bought and fitted a Carver gas heater. All the wiring, pipes and stuff were already there. I don't know why I didn't think of it, other than old age idiocy has caught up with me.
I think I'll have to take a 5 litre Jerry can of diesel with me, but I don't like that idea as I don't have a 'garage' to store it, it would have to sit behind the passenger seat. I have repeatedly pointed out to my best beloved that Diesel is a lady's perfume and she ought to be proud that the camper smells of it (and my clothes) but she insists that Yardley do a better job . . . . .

Second edit . . . thinks . . . I could still sell the Eberspacher for what I paid for it, and install a gas Carver . . . . maybe I will do just that . . .
 
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Do you mean the carver that Truma took over, if so, yes, they are the best apart from having to cut the hole in the floor.


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When I had a truck my heater got switch on when winter came and switch off at the end of winter just left it on tick over over the weekends the truck would stand for 48 hrs or more and I have never had a flat battery in all the years I have owned one also I had a 24v fridge running at the same time PS I didn't worry about the fuel I carried over a 1000lts
 
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