Winter on the 2011 and 2012 kills range, using the heater kills it even more.
I'm luck that I have at 2014 battery with all 12 bars so I'm not suffering too bad.
I had seen these before on the diesel truck forums but didn't know if they had been used on the nissan leaf.
Then I found this:
http://www.mynissanleaf.com/viewtopic.php?f=4&t=26390&p=545676#p545676
Paulsp looks like he is enjoying his diesel fuel fired air heater.
I was considering one of these or the diesel fuel burning coolant heater. One of the german made Eberspacher brand ones, not the cheap chinese knock offs. I don't want to fire bomb my own car, I actually like this car.
I mainly want the defroster to just be blasting heat. But that doing that in the leaf kills range bad.
I think the Eberspacher has a circulation pump built into it. I could plumb the coolant heater into the coolant loop and run it with the electrical heater. Hopefully the electric heater would barely draw any power.
If I use the air heater and stick it in back like paulsp did I just don't know if it will do much for defrosting.
What do you think?
Leave the coolant loop alone and just use the air heater or plumb it in?
I'm luck that I have at 2014 battery with all 12 bars so I'm not suffering too bad.
I had seen these before on the diesel truck forums but didn't know if they had been used on the nissan leaf.
Then I found this:
http://www.mynissanleaf.com/viewtopic.php?f=4&t=26390&p=545676#p545676
Paulsp looks like he is enjoying his diesel fuel fired air heater.
I was considering one of these or the diesel fuel burning coolant heater. One of the german made Eberspacher brand ones, not the cheap chinese knock offs. I don't want to fire bomb my own car, I actually like this car.
I mainly want the defroster to just be blasting heat. But that doing that in the leaf kills range bad.
I think the Eberspacher has a circulation pump built into it. I could plumb the coolant heater into the coolant loop and run it with the electrical heater. Hopefully the electric heater would barely draw any power.
If I use the air heater and stick it in back like paulsp did I just don't know if it will do much for defrosting.
What do you think?
Leave the coolant loop alone and just use the air heater or plumb it in?