Factory installed engine heater
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From: Wasilla Alaska
Those heaters work great and they only need to be plugged in for a couple of hours for it to work. If you get into the habit of leaving it on all night you will definately notice it in your next electric bill.
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From: memphis
SOP:
-Buy timer, set for three hours before you leave.
-Plug the truck in.
-Wrap cord around driver's side mirror. (Just to remind you not to drive off with it still plugged in, it can happen.)
-Go inside house and make out Christmas list for Momma on what you want for your truck!
Simple!
-Buy timer, set for three hours before you leave.
-Plug the truck in.
-Wrap cord around driver's side mirror. (Just to remind you not to drive off with it still plugged in, it can happen.)
-Go inside house and make out Christmas list for Momma on what you want for your truck!
Simple!
Tuned
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From: McMinnville
Just another question on the block heaters. I want to put a block heater in my 99 expedition but in previous articles it mentions the "oil" filter area. In my old Chevy (now put to rest) the heater was inserted in the "soft plug" of the block. Is this the same with Expy's? And what position does it go in?
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From: STEPHENVILLE,TX!!!!!
i havent used my block heater but once when i was in montana....
i put a auto release receptical on my front bumper and have a cord grip off the wall. its like what they use on emergency vehicals so when your running out and dont unplug its no big deal. im an electrician if your cord or wall socket is getting that warm with a 10awg cord i would check the wall socket. thoose quick wire style recepticals that have the wire that just push in the back are garbage, that plug could be at the end of 200' of 14awg romex so that could be whats causing the heat build up from the voltage drop so the amprage goes up
i put a auto release receptical on my front bumper and have a cord grip off the wall. its like what they use on emergency vehicals so when your running out and dont unplug its no big deal. im an electrician if your cord or wall socket is getting that warm with a 10awg cord i would check the wall socket. thoose quick wire style recepticals that have the wire that just push in the back are garbage, that plug could be at the end of 200' of 14awg romex so that could be whats causing the heat build up from the voltage drop so the amprage goes up
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From: memphis
It's gotta stroke in it right? I don't know much about Exp. but I thought later models had them pretty much standard epuip. Cookie would know.
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From: Carhenge
Originally Posted by barebackjake
i havent used my block heater but once when i was in montana....
Originally Posted by barebackjake
i put a auto release receptical on my front bumper and have a cord grip off the wall. its like what they use on emergency vehicals so when your running out and dont unplug its no big deal. im an electrician if your cord or wall socket is getting that warm with a 10awg cord i would check the wall socket. thoose quick wire style recepticals that have the wire that just push in the back are garbage, that plug could be at the end of 200' of 14awg romex so that could be whats causing the heat build up from the voltage drop so the amprage goes up
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Big Al and Diesel Rod are both right. The resistance of resistance heaters goes up when they get hot. The 12 ohms Diesel Rod measured will go up when the heater is plugged in and heats up, reducing the power consumption from 1200 to (probably) 1000 watts. An extreme example is an incandescent light bulb, where the resistance changes dramatically as the filament heats almost instantly to white hot. If it didn't you would blow the breaker every time you flip on a light switch.
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From: Las Vegas, Nevada
Originally Posted by warrens250
Big Al and Diesel Rod are both right. The resistance of resistance heaters goes up when they get hot. The 12 ohms Diesel Rod measured will go up when the heater is plugged in and heats up, reducing the power consumption from 1200 to (probably) 1000 watts. An extreme example is an incandescent light bulb, where the resistance changes dramatically as the filament heats almost instantly to white hot. If it didn't you would blow the breaker every time you flip on a light switch.
No?????