Anyone got an Eberspacher diesel heater?

[gasgas]

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.

 

[RichardHelen262]

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

 

[gasgas]

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.

 

[gasgas]

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.

 

[Molly 3]

Only down side to an ebber is the start up current, when the battery is low they can refuse to start should be OK with a lithium

 

[edina]