Low price diesel heater

ssobol · Posted: Mon Oct 26, 2020 1:33 am Post subject:

There are probably tens of millions of installed units of the knockoff heater model in China alone. If they were crap there'd be a lot of dead truck drivers and they wouldn't be making so many of them.

While some countries may not value people's lives as much as some others, if there was a problem with these heaters, they'd find a solution if for nothing else then keeping the economy running.

thataway · Posted: Mon Oct 26, 2020 10:39 am Post subject:

T.R. Bauer · Posted: Mon Oct 18, 2021 6:23 pm Post subject:

So I put one in.....8k and warmer than you would ever want. I kind of doubt it's really 8k though since it appears to have exactly the same case as the 5k. I don't really know or even care since it can make the boat 90 degrees (or more) inside when it's 20 outside. Also, unlike the wallas cooktop, the flame seems to be very stable. It shut itself off one time this year, but it was because a fishing towel found it's way over the air intake in the gunnel and even provided the correct fault code. Wow! It also seems to burn much cleaner than my wallas with nearly no smoke at all. I really like the controller - It has a timer, displays voltage, shows temp, trouble codes, and a few other things. The manual is even better than I expected - totally usable. I didn't see a real measurable difference in the exhaust hose compared to the wallas - except it is a smaller diameter by a couple mils. Some said it might be cheap....maybe so, but I can't tell. My CO detector has never shown anything more then 0.0 inside the cabin with it running. In a nutshell - totally surprised by how good it is and quite happy.

Pat Anderson · Posted: Mon Oct 18, 2021 8:57 pm Post subject:

Colby, we removed our Wallas many years ago, and replaced it with a Webasto for heating and a little one burner butane stove for cooking. We ended up selling the Wallas for enough to cover most of the cost of the Webasto and its installation. I bought the Webasto mail order from a company that sells them for truck sleepers. Scott Boysen, who was the factory manager under the ownership prior to the Wrights, installed our Webasto (that should give you a clue how long ago it has been). The Webasto has run flawlessly for us for all those years.

The Wallas was neither a good heater, because the heat came out at waist height instead of at floor level and was not ducted, nor a good cooktop, as it took too long to start up and shut down, and did not offer fine temperature control. Plus it was just plain cranky, especially if it ran out of fuel and had to be reprimed.

I always said there were two kinds of Wallas owners:a those who have had trouble with their Wallas, and those who are going to!