Thank You, guys, for the answers! 2013/1/20 Sven Wesley <[email protected]>: > All my cars have, and all my former cars had, electrical heaters. You don't > need a pump. > There are universal models that sits in the cooler hose that works > flawlessly.
Well, there has to be something that makes the fluid to circulate. Either it is a pump, which allows to place the heater anywhere with respect to motor. Or let the fluid circulate naturally, based on the fact that warmer liquid has smaller density so it moves up... But this approach requires to position the heater carefully with the motor block. It will not just work anywhere... I suspect that Your electrical heating units have a pump already built in... > There's a silicone/rubber plate model nowadays that you glue directly onto > the oil pan that works pretty well too. Some guys use it to pre-heat the > oil reservoir on hydraulic machines. I think the price is 50-70 Euro. Yes, I have heard about them and we discussed them also with dad yesterday as he mentioned that their price also is good, but since I live in countryside there are several reasons I am suspicious about: 1) it should be attached to oil pan, which is at the very bottom of the motor; do I understand correctly that it actually requires also some protective shield to prevent any damage by things on the road? Like pieces of snow and ice that I can hear to hit the bottom of car? The road passing by my house is not cleaned within an hour or so after a snowfall; 2) IMHO the oil pan definitely is subject to get splashes of water from wheels; are these heaters sensitive to water or are they sealed up really good? 3) this heater heats up the motor only from one side while heating the cooling liquid and circulating it through the motor block heats it up thoroughly; so I somehow think that this approach is less effective and takes more time; is that really true? 4) and how exactly are they attached to the oil pan? Literally glued, which does not feel really safe to me? Or can it be positioned also with bolts (which requires welding few nuts to the outside of oil pan)? -- Viesturs If you can't fix it, you don't own it. http://www.ifixit.com/Manifesto ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Master Visual Studio, SharePoint, SQL, ASP.NET, C# 2012, HTML5, CSS, MVC, Windows 8 Apps, JavaScript and much more. Keep your skills current with LearnDevNow - 3,200 step-by-step video tutorials by Microsoft MVPs and experts. ON SALE this month only -- learn more at: http://p.sf.net/sfu/learnmore_123012 _______________________________________________ Emc-users mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users
