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This is certainly do-able, and is on my list of things to do. My engine
heat goes to a small bus heater in the cabin, but is not in any way
connected to my fresh-water system, so I don't get any hot water while
underway. I do have a Webasto diesel furnace with the coolant lines
plumbed through an AC hot-water tank that will give me enough piping hot
water in 15 minutes for several showers and dishes, as well as the cabin
heat from it's bus heaters. The AC heater only really gets the water
very warm.
At the last boat show I talked to one of the exhibitors who said, for a
couple of hundred bucks, I could get an inline heat exchanger that I
could use to provide an interface between the engine heat loop and the
furnace heat loop, so that I could get hot water underway from the
engines, but I could also use the furnace to pre-heat the engines if I
wanted. He said it's fairly common.
Now I just have to get to it...
Rob Grant
41' Canoe Cove, "RaeLeah"
Delta, BC
>Couldn't this also be used to heat the engine if one installed a small circulation
>pump?
>
>If I were to introduce a small diesel heater such as Webasto into the system,
>ie: one that heated the water rather than forced air, couldn't that be fired
>up and use the same freshwater cooling water circulation system to heat that
>engine?
>
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