Fuel__2001

Hi I have a 7 day timer for a hydronic 10 also has diagnostic capabilities, and it works a treat. I can set the timer to come on for 3 periods over a 24 hour period, and also set the duration upto 8 hours per period. I found it not very user friendly to set up, but once set it will run on the timer without having to reset the timer each day, its very similar to a regular timer for a domestic central heating system. Hope this helps

Hi Roger You have the same problem as myself and the companies involved are the same. I am live aboard and had a terrible time last winter with the unit continually shutting down until it would not start no more. I had my very nice local eberspacher engineer (who i now know on first name terms due to the amount of times he has visited, he plays in a Dire Straits tribute band :-D) replace the burner and told me I would be wise to run my unit on parafin or derv or try fuelset additive. I tried using fuelset and when my unit was serviced for its first year the engineer said that the unit was well coked up and would fail in time if I didnt switch to another fuel source. I didnt want another cold winter so I bought a jerry can which now lives on the swim next to the deck drain. He fitted a stand pipe into the jerry can and I have taken the copper pipe from the main deisel tank which feeds the eberspacher and connected the pipe to a tap which is fitted to the end of the stand pipe. This is a very crude work around and not a permanant solution but I have not had one problem since. I have had my unit for a year, problems so far with my unit which is still under warrenty include , a new control unit, a new burner, new glow plug, new flame sensor, new air blower. Some of these are not all fuel related and my engineer thinks I must have just got a bad unit, he also recommended that I shouldnt rely on eberspacher as a main source of heat and should fit a secondary heat source which im in the process of doing. I have done some research and found this article on fuel which explains about red diesel/gas oil versus derv/road diesel. There is more information around the web on the fuel issue. http://www.vtt.fi/virtual/amf/annex_xxv/europe.htm I am of the same opinion as yourself that there should be a seprate tank as this is what Gary suggest and builds into his boats and as a liveaboard eberspachers are not reliable enough and used to the amount of abuse they encounter over a British winter. So I am also going to approach the NBC because they advertise there boats as liveaboards and I am of opinion that eberspachers are not up to the job of a main heat source, also why are they connected to the main red deisel/gas oil tank when the eberspacher literature clearly staes that there units should be run on parafin or EN590 diesel. I will keep you posted John

Go here for the eberspacher technical manuals. I had mine apart the other week and it seems that there isnt much to do, all there is too clean is soot, carbon deposits however not sure of what the exact eberspacher service would comprise of. I took my Hydronic 10 apart and cleaned the heat exchanger and burner. I used a screwdriver, and a brush with a long handle (my babies bottle brush) and with advice from the local service agent they recommended brake cleaner to help shift all to carbon but i didnt use any.

I bought a boat that had an Eberspacher Hydronic 10 plumbed into my main diesel tank. Within 12 months I have now had to have 2 burners replaced on the unit within the warranty period and I think Eberspacher are not to happy with this. Could create another thread for gas oil/red diesel vs EN590 diesel (this is the diesel Eberspacher say to use). Go here for a look at what I found. Also tried using fuel set additive after he 1st burner got replaced but this has done nothing. Seems that the red stuff just leaves to much carbon/soot deposits which block up the burner. It seems that I will now have to create a separate fuel tank which im going to use paraffin to run the heater, what is the best method for doing this also making sure I comply with BSS. Rant rant : Whos at fault here because it seems like Eberspachers agent may want me to stump up with some money as they waivered the bill the first time round this happened. Should I contact the people who originally fitted the unit when the boat was built, surely they would presume I would run the main engine on red so would the Eberspacher.

Going back on topic: They claim the tool "is fully comparable with a conventionally blasted surface" Has anyone any experience or information on using the Perago for stripping back the paint, rust and millscale from a hull? This seems too good to be true, why aren't more people using this method?