REFLECTOR: Cabin Heat

[Jeff Howell]

Ruben
 
What I did to achieve greater heating in my plane is to add a second oil cooler in series to the one in the nose. Mine is plumbed so that the HOT oil goes through the nose oil cooler first and then through the primary oil cooler through the wing via a naca vent... Really cool design. I have the exhaust of the nose oil cooler choked down to about 1/5 of the factory outlet. (This is primarily a pressure relief so I don't get to high of pressure in the plenum.) I then have a similar setup to the stock velocity on bringing the HOT air into the cabin. This alone helped tremendously.  I also have rear heater witch pulls a great amount of heat through a heat muff off the exhaust system. Between the two heaters you can make it hot in the plane... Jeff
 



From: ruben at vainneg.com
To: reflector at tvbf.org
Date: Thu, 12 Jan 2012 21:35:34 -0500
Subject: REFLECTOR: Cabin Heat






Hi all,
 
When I am flying below 0 Celsius outside temperature, the oil cooler seems to not heat enough the air coming into the cabin. The other day at -12C outside it was very chill in the cabin. I heard some of you partially cover the cooler, but not sure if the can be risky if covered too much. Has any one had any experience trying to get more cabin heat?
 
Ruben
 
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