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Alan


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Hi all

 My self & a couple friends brought the Swift Ecotherm hot water caravan heaters. Not one warms our vans up enough. The 3 of us have since brought ether Gas or Diesel heaters. 

How they work is buy using hot water in your hot water tank. 

The water in you hot water tank doesn't get no where hot enough to blow hot air through the Eco Therm system.

So when it's cold out side you only just get a bit of warm air coming the heater. 

Cheers

Al



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Whenarewethere


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A 28 litre hot water tank is not going to provide heat for very long using it as a heat supply. One could just as well sit 3 buckets of hot water on the floor & see how long useful heat lasts.

Better off covering up the windows as they loose 6°C per m2 per degree difference in temperature. Would cost a lot less for a bit of insulation.



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It is not the size of the HWS tank that determines the heating rate but the heat energy input rate to that tank.
The Swift Ecotherm is not a "heater" it is a heat exchanger. It simply takes heat out of the water and transfers it to the air. If there is insufficient heat energy in the water gong past it, that is not the fault of the Swift unit.
Cheers,
Peter

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Honeybear96


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What size vans do you have Alan?

 



-- Edited by Honeybear96 on Tuesday 30th of April 2019 03:32:08 PM

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