Anyone got any ideas on the best low volume fuel conditioning options?
I'm setting up a domestic hot water & space heater for my twenty-seven foot Airstream trailer using an Espar H10 diesel coolant heater modeled along the lines of an AquaHot RV-Bus $ystem. Burner specs are 32.4K BTU to 5.1K BTU, .32 to .05 gallon per hour.
I need ultra pure fuel to maximize the life of this thing since overhaul parts are unbelievably expensive. Oh, and that down time could be ugly in a Minnesota winter.
I've missed a few rare eBay auctions on the smallest Parker-Racor R12~ combined filter-separator-heater w/ drain bowl when the prices went past nose-bleed territory - plus I am not sure whether my gallon per day use warrants the Racor 15 gal/hr filter setup. Without the heater it seems $75 US is the least I've found it for recently.
Somewhere in the future there may be a diesel galley cookstove and a small diesel house generator so maybe the small Racor is best?
Its taken a couple of years on a limited budget to piece together most of the parts I have so far; I have a nice large aluminum fuel tank salvaged from a boat that I may have to cut it down in size to use so interior condition will be seen then - and nicer diesel fill through-hull deck fitting - all lines and pumps, remote thermal storage tanks, 24V power system, 24V hot water pumps, just need a good filter-separator (and maybe heater) combo.
First picture is the heater unit - second is borrowed from the AquaHot people to show y'all the general layout...
I'm setting up a domestic hot water & space heater for my twenty-seven foot Airstream trailer using an Espar H10 diesel coolant heater modeled along the lines of an AquaHot RV-Bus $ystem. Burner specs are 32.4K BTU to 5.1K BTU, .32 to .05 gallon per hour.
I need ultra pure fuel to maximize the life of this thing since overhaul parts are unbelievably expensive. Oh, and that down time could be ugly in a Minnesota winter.
I've missed a few rare eBay auctions on the smallest Parker-Racor R12~ combined filter-separator-heater w/ drain bowl when the prices went past nose-bleed territory - plus I am not sure whether my gallon per day use warrants the Racor 15 gal/hr filter setup. Without the heater it seems $75 US is the least I've found it for recently.
Somewhere in the future there may be a diesel galley cookstove and a small diesel house generator so maybe the small Racor is best?
Its taken a couple of years on a limited budget to piece together most of the parts I have so far; I have a nice large aluminum fuel tank salvaged from a boat that I may have to cut it down in size to use so interior condition will be seen then - and nicer diesel fill through-hull deck fitting - all lines and pumps, remote thermal storage tanks, 24V power system, 24V hot water pumps, just need a good filter-separator (and maybe heater) combo.
First picture is the heater unit - second is borrowed from the AquaHot people to show y'all the general layout...