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Sent: Wednesday, January 03, 2001 1:24 PM
Subject: Re: TWL: Re: Lehman cold start
>it is cold .... the oil and battery are
> cold .... the oil is thicker (even multi-viscosity) .... thick oil takes
more
> to energy to allow parts to slip ....
Hello all,
Since I have twin gas engines in "Just Keel-ing Time", the recent discussion
on cold starts for diesels doesn't apply to me, but the above snip would
indicate that heating the block(s) may be
just as beneficial as heating the intake air. I know that past experience
with diesels on the farm in Canada in winter showed that block heaters
worked quite well for easy starts on really cold days (only a faint memory
now) without any method of heating the intake air.
My question is this:
I have a Tanis block heating system (www.tanair.com) on the engine in my
plane that was
easily installed by tapping into the cylinders and is powered with 110V AC.
It
keeps the entire engine and oil quite warm and makes for very easy starts
regardless of the temps. I would have thought that with all the diesel
engines in use in boats, trucks and construction equipment that someone
like the Tanis corporation would have a 110V AC system for large diesels.
Wouldn't something like this help?
Hopefully not a really stupid question.
John Garrison
"Just Keel-ing Time"
Lake Norman, NC
