REFLECTOR:Heating

[Dennis Martin]

Ron,
I used my own modified Dodge Stratus heater in the nose.  It acts as 
a radiator in the summer by dumping hot air out the bottom through a 
faired vent.  For winter, I'm using the keel as my "heating duct." 
I've got a 4 speed fan that blows like a tornado, so it should get 
plenty of heated air to each passenger on demand.

I vented into the keel with a 3" hole though the center of canard 
bulkhead (reinforced with an aluminum "hat" made from heavy duty 
irrigation pipe, all reinforced and bolted in with structual epoxy). 
A 6" scat tube dumps hot air from the heater directly into the keel. 
I've got four eyeballs inside the keel - one for each seat.

If you have any questions, email me direct for my phone number.

Best,
Dennis


>Sorry guys for sucha tardy reply but I seem to read Reflector mailings in
>spurts...
>
>
>>Got any Pic of your heating system?
>>Ron
>
>Not scanned.
>
>?>Do you have a drawing of how you're setting up the plenums?  How are you
>planning to pipe the air
>>Jim Sower
>
>I just added one more outlet from the cold air NACA and plumb one hot from
>oil cooler and one cold to each plenum.  Then each plenum will have a
>"temperature" control.
>
>>  From: Brett Ferrell [mailto:bferrell@123mail.net]
>>   I was wondering, did you use the mixer from Spruce or make your own?
>
>I made my own,  I made a male mold and laid up two plenums.  I built a
>flapper valve that flips from the hot pipe to the cold pipe inside this
>plenum.  My idea was that if you want heat you pull flapper in oil cooler
>first.  Then use seperate "temperature" control to mix in cold air from
>fresh air NACA.
>
>Again soory for the late response.
>
>Craig
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