ak-guy
Senior Member
I have recently installed a Planar hot air Diesel Heater in the wheelhouse portion of my Allweather. It works great. Only it is too loud. I can't imagine living with it. It is in an exposed place and the wheelhouse is small so I should have known. I had an alternate location scoped out before I went ahead and put it where it is now.
I am going to move it to the other location that is under the aft deck. There is plenty of room, the only problem is exhaust. I can't get the exhaust thru-hull up high enough in the under deck space. My plan is to glass/epoxy in a fiberglass tube out through the deck under the gunnel and up to just below the decked in area on one side of the cockpit. My heater exhaust tube would go up through this pipe, out the top of the fiberglass tube and down somewhat to a thru-hull.
The issue insulateing the exhaust tubing with insulation or a double wall exhaust tube or both. I don't have a complete an accurate idea of the exhaust temperatures involved here or the physics of temperature transfer.
The fiberglass tubing I have looked at are rated to 250 degrees or so. I can get 1" double wall exhaust tube, insulating wrap or sock type insulation.
I am going to move it to the other location that is under the aft deck. There is plenty of room, the only problem is exhaust. I can't get the exhaust thru-hull up high enough in the under deck space. My plan is to glass/epoxy in a fiberglass tube out through the deck under the gunnel and up to just below the decked in area on one side of the cockpit. My heater exhaust tube would go up through this pipe, out the top of the fiberglass tube and down somewhat to a thru-hull.
The issue insulateing the exhaust tubing with insulation or a double wall exhaust tube or both. I don't have a complete an accurate idea of the exhaust temperatures involved here or the physics of temperature transfer.
The fiberglass tubing I have looked at are rated to 250 degrees or so. I can get 1" double wall exhaust tube, insulating wrap or sock type insulation.