--- In [email protected], "Terry Waldron" <talwald...@...>
wrote:
>
> According to the manufacturers handbook on the Webasto it is
supposed to
> work down to 10.5 volts (that voltage being at the unit and not at
the fuse
> panel).
> It is quite a power hungry beast in that it does a self purge every 72
> minutes (can be less and down as far as 40 minutes), during that
purge it
> shuts down completely and then fully starts up again and as thus the
glow
> plug will be powered for the period of start up, cannot remember but
think
> it was about 8 to 12 amps (although fuse is 20 amps). Wecould still
go 2
> days without charging batteries provided the webasto was not on more
than
> about 6 hours per day.
>
> Although it is quieter on start up (and running) than either of
Mikuni or
> Ebberspacher it appears to be more costly on spare parts. There are
very few
> spare parts you can buy and even then they are large (expensive)
lumps. If
> you want to service the burner pot to remove the sooty residue that
forms
> due to using red diesel you cannot buy purely a gasket set - I did
manage to
> get one set from LS UK in Batley and another set from the supplier
at Napton
> Junction.
>
> Over 5 years of use the burner pot needed attention between 12
months and 18
> months. On two occasions I got LS UK to do the repairs (change of
burner
> pot), on another occasion I got a local commercial vehical diesel
mechanic
> to strip and clean the burner pot, he cleaned the interior of the
burner (I
> think steam clean after carefully removing residue soot deposits).
Symptoms
> of need of service/repair are if the exhaust smoke on start up is
darker
> than light grey - usually almost black when it is about to fail.
>
> Terry
>
Although probably of no interest to boaters I have to recommend Propex
service. We took our camper heater, probably 15yrs old, to Propex
after they offered us a good price for replacement. When we got there
they said why don't we test the old one and repair it, which they did
and we collected it 2hrs later.
Sue
