Re: [EVDL] Heater solution for S-10 conversion, tips & tricks

2016-02-17 Thread Cor van de Water via EV
-- > From: Roland via EV > To: brucedp5 ; Electric Vehicle Discussion List > > Sent: Wed, Feb 17, 2016 12:19 PM > Subject: Re: [EVDL] Heater solution for S-10 conversion, tips & tricks > > > > I also left the original hot water heater core in the vehicle. Can

Re: [EVDL] Heater solution for S-10 conversion, tips & tricks

2016-02-17 Thread Jan Steinman via EV
> From: Roland via EV > > I also left the original hot water heater core in the vehicle. I’m still working on the conversion, but I left the original hot water heater core in, too, and I’m planning on feeding it with a Webasto diesel-fired water heater. You can sometimes pick these up from bul

Re: [EVDL] Heater solution for S-10 conversion, tips & tricks

2016-02-16 Thread via EV
; Electric Vehicle Discussion List Sent: Wed, Feb 17, 2016 12:19 PM Subject: Re: [EVDL] Heater solution for S-10 conversion, tips & tricks I also left the original hot water heater core in the vehicle. Can use either the on board power or use a transfer switch to use commercial power to preheat

Re: [EVDL] Heater solution for S-10 conversion, tips & tricks

2016-02-16 Thread Roland via EV
t: Re: [EVDL] Heater solution for S-10 conversion, tips & tricks Originally my S-10 Blazer conversion had a resistive heater that barely defrosted the windshield after 15 minutes of warm up. At the time I did not mind as the weather back in the 1990's only saw 1 month of frost (now with the p

Re: [EVDL] Heater solution for S-10 conversion, tips & tricks

2016-02-16 Thread John Lussmyer via EV
On Tue Feb 16 14:58:48 PST 2016 ev@lists.evdl.org said: >I hope others will reply with what they use. I'm using a pair of Ceramic heater cores from 120V household heaters. I re-wired the sections in them (seem to be about 60V each) to be nominally 240V heater cores. I drive them off my 320V pack

Re: [EVDL] Heater solution for S-10 conversion, tips & tricks

2016-02-16 Thread brucedp5 via EV
Originally my S-10 Blazer conversion had a resistive heater that barely defrosted the windshield after 15 minutes of warm up. At the time I did not mind as the weather back in the 1990's only saw 1 month of frost (now with the planet heating up, not at all). A few years later when I paid to have