Phillip,
Its a 400watt blockheater, my 400watt inverter handles it with no worries. I
use a 110ah marine battery and 20 minutes is plenty to start my car down to
-15F out in the driveway. Cars don't suffer from windchill anyway.
At -20F an hour on the heater gets everything going just fine. I usually take
the battery down and get everything connected up. Come back up and jump in a
nice hot shower, eat breakfast and check my email. Then go down and start the
car, leave it running while I bring the battery back upstairs and put it on the
charger. If its -20F I'll maybe have another cup of coffee, I know its naughty
but at -20F I like to have some heat... Contrary to what I've read on this list
my car will develop enopugh heat to warm the cab at idle in 5-7 minutes. I have
a 40 mile one way commute so I'm not terribly worried about any carbon
developing in that time.
-Curt
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rumor has it that Kevin wrote:
> On Tue, Sep 27, 2005 at 08:34:14AM -0700, Curt Raymond wrote:
> > Old style glowplugs so I'll
> > want to convert. How well can one with converted glowplugs be
expected to
> > start in the cold? Right now at about 0F I start getting nervous
('83 240D)
> > and at -5F I've gotta put the block heater on which is a project
because I
> > live in a 3rd floor walkup with nowhere to plugin the car. I've got
a 110ah
> > marine battery and 400watt inverter that I haul down to the car and
20
> > minutes later it starts with no problems all the way down to -20F
which is
> > about as cold as it ever gets here.
>
> After messing with series plugs last night, I think I like messing
with
> them better than the parallel ones. SO SIMPLE.
The relay circuit is simpler - but it in not that series is inherently
simpler than parallel.
The two problems I see with the series system Mercedes used:
* About 1/2 of the heat created is in the "toaster" wires - outside
of the engine!!
* Any problem with any connection or heater will affect _all_ the
plugs,
not just the one with troubles.
> You know, with some creativity, you could use an RV charging system
(allows
> charge but not discharge), and run dual batteries, leaving one for an
onboard
> inverter for your block heater. The battery will charge up as you
drive, as
> long as you don't do short trips with a 4000 watt ghetto blaster like
Spud
> has hooked up in his 300D :)
Hmmm.
That would take a _lot_ of battery.
The block heater is about 750 watts. With an inverter that is 100%
efficient (impossible) that is about 55 amps at 13.6 V !!!
My experience is the block heater is almost useless if it is powered
for
less than 1 hour. By 2 hours, it's help is noticable; and 3-4 hours is
long enough for my garage-parked (no wind) cars for any temperatures I
find here in central Missouri.
So, to get 3 hours of full power you should prabably figure on at least
200 amp-hour batter capacity.
Philip, dreaming of some day finding diesel-fire block
heaters - that cost _less_ than the car.
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So I assume it has the 3rd seat?
Christopher McCann wrote:
> Apparently the man I bought it from's grand kids
> called it "Little Red Riding Hood"...which is
> cute...especially since it will mainly haul around my
> wife and 4 (soon to be 5) daughters. I have to say
> I'm partial to a German name...Ursula...?
>
> translation: kleine rot _______ __________?
>
> Chris
>
>
>
>
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