REFLECTOR: Rear Seat Heat

[Alex Balic]

I have fashioned a rear heater from an aluminum automotive heater core it is
about 5" x 12" x 1" thick. then made a fan pack from 3 flat fans attached to
a sheet of aluminum that covers the entire core. Fans can be turned on
sequentially for various "speeds"- I am running water/coolant, but you
should also be able to run oil through the core and achieve a similar
result. It is pretty small, can fit under a rear seat, but you will need to
tee into the lines running in the duct- I put a valving system on it to
bypass if I have no rear seat passengers- I thought I had some pics here,
but I cant find them- if you want a picture, please let me know.

 

Alex

 

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From: reflector-bounces at tvbf.org [mailto:reflector-bounces at tvbf.org] On
Behalf Of Keith Hallsten
Sent: Friday, April 25, 2008 9:05 PM
To: 'Velocity Aircraft Owners and Builders list'
Subject: Re: REFLECTOR: Rear Seat Heat

 

Ken,

 

I've never heard of successful electric air heating, though many have tried.
If you have some electrical capacity, 12 volt electric lap blankets are
probably the best solution for the back seats.  Heat the people, not the
air!

 

Keith Hallsten

 

 

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From: reflector-bounces at tvbf.org [mailto:reflector-bounces at tvbf.org] On
Behalf Of KMis178813 at aol.com
Sent: Friday, April 25, 2008 6:09 PM
To: reflector at tvbf.org
Subject: Re: REFLECTOR: Rear Seat Heat

 

Ronnie

   Thanks for your comments. That is a good was of getting a little more
heat out of the oil. Does anyone have a electric powered heater that works
maybe?

       Ken

 

In a message dated 4/25/2008 12:02:58 A.M. Eastern Daylight Time,
romott at mi-connection.com writes:

Hi Ken,

 

One option that someone had implemented was to open up the plenum which the
oil cooler lines run through and pick up that heat and allow it to blow into
the rear cabin. This would require that the vernertherm close off and force
oil through he cooler and the lines during the winter.  If the cooling air
to the engine isn't reduced during the winter flying, then the oil won't get
hot enough to do much cabin heating.  This could be done by restricting the
NACA scoops by reducing the inlet area.

 

I am planning to install outlet scoops just in front of the firewall to gain
some oil cooling from the oil lines for the summer months.  If you calculate
the surface area of the two 10' lines going through the plenum, it is almost
as much as the surface area of the oil cooler.

 

Ronnie  

 

 

----- Original Message ----- 

From: KMis178813 at aol.com 

To: reflector at tvbf.org 

Sent: Thursday, April 24, 2008 11:17 PM

Subject: REFLECTOR: Rear Seat Heat

 

To All

   Does anyone have some sort of rear cabin heat working with a air cooled
engine?

 

                  Ken Mishler

 


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