I've been experimenting with mine. I've been successfully running a blend of 87.5% filtered veggie oil to 12.5% unleaded gasoline. Adjusted the fuel curves on the controller to 2.0 - 5.5 and rpms to 1680-4000 and now it runs better than stock. Startup and shutdown on kerosene, fuel is preheated through a SS brakeline wrapped around the exhaust, temperature maintained by a thermal sensor and a tiny PC fan to keep and hold fuel around 200-220F. I've ran about 30-40 gallons of waste oil through it already like this I'll post a video with my main account and link iit here soon. Heated my whole house through a power outage/snow storm. cheers buddy
Hey bob! Thanks for the detailed description, I'm keen to do something similar. Is this mixture still going strong? any troubles along the way? Have you made the video on your heater setup I can check out?
Do not do this !!! Yes it runs but the oil doesn’t burn!! I tried 25% motor oil 75% red diesel. Vegetable oil will be the same. It ran but I left on all night. Woke to found it wasn’t running. And it was full of motor oil. The oil doesn’t burn only the diesel does. Once I drained and managed to get it to fire again it now smokes out from the case and air intake pipe. And cuts on and off. Got it running outside but it’s still smoking after 2 hours of running at full wack. Do not do this it wreck the heater and the oil just ends up on the floor at end of exhaust and could have poisoned us with smoke during our sleep. Cheers Buddy!! Why I listened to this. Seeing the smoke this could have happened whilst we were sleep! Literally toying with lives with this advice. Don’t try it. Use kerosene if you want something cheaper than diesel as kerosene is tried and tested and burns clean. Oil is terrible for environment and your health when the heater turns into a smoke machine which it will I guarantee. It also deposited a lot of carbon and muck inside the heater.
I did try 30% or lass of used veg oil and 70% or more of Diesel and works fine, starts without pre heating the fuel. I don't have a lot used oil, but using two separated tanks to mix it to start probably do even better. Thanks for the video, I want try it, but your video encourage me to do it!
I didn't check all the comments, to see if you've answered the all important question: "Does the size of the 'ring spanner' matter?" Great video. Here in the Colonies, we call that thing-a-ma-jig you stir your fuel mixture with an "end wrench," but who knew that it could also be used as a mixing stick! . . . I subscribed.
I run mine on 80% filtered waste oil and 20% unleaded gasoline. Runs excellent. This is what I had premixed I use in my Tdi jetta. Very close to the viscosity of diesel fuel. Burns very clean in the heater so far.
@@Oneupthesleevecustoms Waste motor oil. I have an unlimited supply of it. I mix 4 to 1 with gasoline and pump it through a 1 micron sock filter. The heater runs clean with no smoke at all.
I only tried that mix because I had it on hand. Going to try running 3 to 1 this week. I bought three of these heaters to heat my shop, and have been testing one of them on motor oil before I set them all up. I am quite pleased. Runs better than my converted waste oil burner I have used for years.
Veg diesel users around here have a special exhaust pre-heater for the bio diesel. It raises the flash point. They have two valves where they can start on diesel until it gets up to temp, then switch to veg when the combustion chamber is hot enough. This heater you would likely just have to leave both valves on to basically get a 50/50 mix on a hot combustion chamber. Oh always shut down on diesel if you can.
Thanks for the great video ! Have you thought of trying used automobile oil ? or auto oil diesel mixture ? My garage is also messy if i cleaned it up i would have a heck of a time finding anything . People that say your garage is a mess Should take a good hard look at their living conditions . Haters will always be haters . MERRY CHRISTMAS & HAPPY NEW YEAR 2019 ! Cheers
Yes you can improve the viscosity by pre heating the vegetable oil though some sort of heat exchanger but the oil still has to be burnt with a lot of air to to incinerate that glycerine fraction.
What glycerine fraction? Glycerine/glycerol only comes into play from making biodiesel which is not being done here. The VO is mixed and burnt directly.
Another great video, thanks! I'd still love to see you pass straight vegetable oil through a couple of loops of copper fuel pipe around the exhaust outlet pipe to reduce viscosity after warm up on diesel, there's no reason you couldn't burn 100% then. Waste veggie and waste engine oil can both be found free.
@@Oneupthesleevecustoms No pressure but Keen to find out. The next obvious tests would be waste vegetable oil and used motor oil (don't ever mix them) though a racor diesel fuel filter/water separator between the heater coil and fuel input (warm oil is easier to filter than cold). There are even Chinese knock off racor /Parker filters.
Oh I just asked this about hot veg oil... I've just bought one and ready to have a play myself.. bio diesel is no different to a 50/50 mix.. I run my car with standard no alterations on a 50/50 mix if diesel and filtered waste cooking oil from local chip shop the engine drives better and I'm basicly achieving between 100 _ 140 MPG. I WILL ALSO MAKE A VIDEO LATER
@@Oneupthesleevecustoms I've been watching your videos on this, and bought a heater in hopes it would run of straight oil (the next day you posted a video showing it won't work haha) Anyways, I can get a lot of WVO for free and have made a few batches of really really garbage bio-diesel. I was trying to see how lazy I could be in the process. 400 micron filter, didn't titrate butI used about 8.2 grams of KOH 92%, and 15% methanol. All I did was drain off the glycerin and ran it right into the heater, no washing. Has been running for a few weeks here. Might be something you would want to play with since running off store bough new veg oil isn't really cost effective. I would be interested to see if pre-heating the oil would make it work on straight oil.
I'd also be interested to see used motor oil attempted if you're willing to potentially wreck the unit. Let it warm up good on diesel then switch to used oil for a better chance of ignition. If it works, see if it will sustain.
In regard to some comments here about burning used engine oil, it should work if filtered and mixed up to 40 or 50 percent with diesel but I wouldn't run it in my parking heater as automotive oil now contains anti burn agents. I don't fancy myself cleaning the burn chamber that often.
what is advantage of veg oil? It is more expensive to purchase correct? Yes you can get used stuff but that is dirty. Do they make a 120 volt version of these heaters?
Kerosene (or Home Heating Oil in the UK), is very similar to #1 Diesel, which has a lower flash point than #2 Diesel (auto diesel). It is cheaper to buy than #2 Diesel because you're not paying road taxes and with the lower flash point, mixing in some straight vegetable oil would probably work out a bit easier. If you continue to go the biodiesel route, you might blend in SVO as it gets warmed up. I used to make biodiesel for my Jetta TDI back in the day.
I have been mucking around with used vegetable oil from the local fish and chip shop for years. I have burnt it mixed with diesel in my old digger and it runs well. BUT. Vegetable oil needs to burn at a much higher temperature than diesel to burn off the glycerine fraction otherwise it carbons up the engine. Has anyone dismantled the burn chamber to assess just how clean it will burn? Is there any unburnt residue from the vegetable oil fraction of the mixture.
Just noticed you are a powerwaller too. Good man. PS you could capture some of that waste heat going out the exhaust and heat water with it if you used an EGR cooler (mazda ones are cheap as hell here in the UK) + 12v pump to pump water around it.
Vegetable oil probably would have work if you got the unit up the heat using diesel and then switch fuels some multi-fuel cars use this technique like getting the engine up to temperature with diesel and then switching fuels different fuels will work
The idea is to use used veg. oil that you can get for free. It has to be filtered and pre heated to work and then with a fair solar array you get FREE HEAT!
Can you run it on fish oil? Haha, that would stink! Btw, are you still installing one in your neighbors cabin or wherever? I'd love to see a video of at least the finished job and a good long test run in there...
Any updates on longer term wvo/diesel mixes? Is the chamber staying clean enough to still run over time? Also did you ever get around to wmo/diesel mixes?
@@Oneupthesleevecustoms something to consider. Motor oil is already being filtered constantly by the vehicles filter. And water build up should not be an issue unless it was a vehicle sitting unused forever. So in theory waste motor oil should be relatively clean as long as your collecting apparatus and storage of it is not contaminated. But sure more filtering the better. Centrifuge is probably best.
Try veg oil and unleaded petrol 90%/10%. I used to do veg oil 95% to petrol 5% in diesel cars from pre 2000, and it worked a treat. Petrol thins the oil down much better than diesel.
@@Oneupthesleevecustoms Absolutely yes. The reason I suggest 90/10 is because petrol mixes better than diesel, it's more potent. It was well worth doing even with new veg oil because it was about a third of the price as diesel years ago. Now you might want to ask a friendly chip shop owner for some used stuff, but be sure to filter it well. There are loads of videos on that. Then just keep trying until you get the right mix.
Using that mixture, did you need to modify the vehicles, IE heat the fuel line, or unmodified? And does it get cold where you live? I'm in Melbourne, gets fairly cold. Thank you!!
Try to wrap a copperpipe or something around the exhaust to warm the veg oil before it enters the heater, that might work if you get it heated enough. But you have to runn it with diesel for some minutes.
@@Oneupthesleevecustoms lol, I have a kind of path from door to tool boxes to lathe. If u count stepping over stuff. Like more tools and projects in mid production lol
Hi been running mine on paraffin seems ok,but I’ve had to use some 10A10mic diodes in parallel to reduce the voltage when my alternator is charging my leisure battery because the mother board on the heater does not like going over 14volts I wonder weather yours does?🙂
Awesome to see the viscosity difference let it run. I was wondering if we can connect on Facebook. I would like to help with this project because once you can get it to run straight Veg Oil then I will buy one to do the same.
Also been thinking a lot about this project. The exhaust wastes a lot of heat that you can recuperate with using some steel gas pipe. At that thought I suggest not using the exhaust to heat the Veg Oil it may get to hot and to complicated. I think you need to have 2 tanks start on the 50/50 mix then you can switch to Veg ounce you use the heat from the air vent to get the Veg Oil hot. And the heat in there should be just hot enough to get it thin enough to burn and not risk the Veg Oil from autoignition from the exhaust.
@@Oneupthesleevecustoms no I meant, to heat up the fresh oil to make it burn by itself by means of coiling the fuel tube around the exhaust pipe. I understand you’d have to run the heater on diesel for a while before shutting down to clear out the oil so it’ll start again next time. But maybe that way the heater can ‘cruise’ on 100% vegetable oil with only minimal actual diesel use on startup and shut down?
You could try waste diesel engine oil my diesel car ran on it for 3 years mixed with straight diesel car runs flat out on engine oil when the turbo lets oil into the inlet manifold
Oh never mind that giant spider on the wall at about 0:45 ! Of course, assuming that this is Australia, it is surely deadly but likely not even close to big by Australian standards.
Not that hard to make it youself. Since you just were to test it you can do it from fresh oil. Rape seed or corn oil, some natrium hydroxide and some methanol and Voila!! Don't have the volumes in the recipe but google is your friend :-)
Have you tried running the heater on HOT VEGETABLE OIL ! You can run old diesel engines on 100% filtered waste vegetable cooking oil but it has to be hot !
@@Oneupthesleevecustoms ok thanks.. I've got one now and will use 50/50 free filtered waste veg oil and halve price red diesel so should be very cheap to run . Thanks for the video... P.S whoever it was called me a tight are for using free fuel YES I'm a tight arse and save where ever I can LOL.. Oh I also save at least £2000 per year running my cars on free waste veg oil, I love it :-)
They do make a petrol (gasoline) version of this heater that looks to be the same basic design, but it seems to be proving pretty hard to get my hands on in practice. When inquiring, one Chinese seller told me the diesel version would work with petrol (gasoline), but "diesel is better"... Which didn't exactly inspire a lot of confidence -- figure that may well mean "gasoline will burn, but diesel doesn't explode" :P Any idea what the difference with a gasoline version would be? The one notable difference on the spec sheets is that the gasoline version consumes fuel marginally faster (presumably because of diesel's higher energy content?). Was thinking there would need to be some change to the fuel-air ratio for it to burn optimally, but are you saying the basic mechanism of this heater simply won't work for gasoline at all? If you are willing to give it a test, I'd love to see what it takes to make gasoline work!
are you willing to test on with US gasoline not diesel,, most motor homes here do not use diesel,, I believe the computer on the unit will control the unit by temperature...will you bench test it for us on UA-cam...
you don't know. when I have the time ,, I will do it myself. as my RV runs on gasoline.I don't want to have another fuel and tank.your answer is just silly... and useless ...I saw a man on UA-cam doing just that but, I can no longer fine it.
It's currently about 30% cheaper in the UK (if you shop around) and there are sometimes supermarket money-off deals available. Last year I bought 75l of rapeseed oil from Sainsbury's for about 60p/litre. (Diesel is c.£1.30/ltr. at moment.)
I think all you need to do is add sodium hydroxide to vegetable oil to turn it into biofuel. Here in Canada, we can't get 100% Sodium hydroxide or Potasium Nitrate becasuse CANADA SUCKS!
I've been experimenting with mine. I've been successfully running a blend of 87.5% filtered veggie oil to 12.5% unleaded gasoline. Adjusted the fuel curves on the controller to 2.0 - 5.5 and rpms to 1680-4000 and now it runs better than stock. Startup and shutdown on kerosene, fuel is preheated through a SS brakeline wrapped around the exhaust, temperature maintained by a thermal sensor and a tiny PC fan to keep and hold fuel around 200-220F. I've ran about 30-40 gallons of waste oil through it already like this I'll post a video with my main account and link iit here soon. Heated my whole house through a power outage/snow storm. cheers buddy
Hey bob! Thanks for the detailed description, I'm keen to do something similar. Is this mixture still going strong? any troubles along the way? Have you made the video on your heater setup I can check out?
Hi Bob. I'm going to try this in the next few days. Is it still going well? How's the carbon deposits? Cheers.
I've been running old motor oil lately and still been good with some diesel from time to time
@@Oneupthesleevecustoms I have thousands of litres of wvo. Trying to see if I can use it reliably in the CDH.
Mix it with so me petrol it's find
Do not do this !!! Yes it runs but the oil doesn’t burn!! I tried 25% motor oil 75% red diesel. Vegetable oil will be the same. It ran but I left on all night. Woke to found it wasn’t running. And it was full of motor oil. The oil doesn’t burn only the diesel does. Once I drained and managed to get it to fire again it now smokes out from the case and air intake pipe. And cuts on and off. Got it running outside but it’s still smoking after 2 hours of running at full wack. Do not do this it wreck the heater and the oil just ends up on the floor at end of exhaust and could have poisoned us with smoke during our sleep. Cheers Buddy!! Why I listened to this. Seeing the smoke this could have happened whilst we were sleep! Literally toying with lives with this advice. Don’t try it. Use kerosene if you want something cheaper than diesel as kerosene is tried and tested and burns clean. Oil is terrible for environment and your health when the heater turns into a smoke machine which it will I guarantee. It also deposited a lot of carbon and muck inside the heater.
Great advice mate cheers
I did try 30% or lass of used veg oil and 70% or more of Diesel and works fine, starts without pre heating the fuel. I don't have a lot used oil, but using two separated tanks to mix it to start probably do even better. Thanks for the video, I want try it, but your video encourage me to do it!
I didn't check all the comments, to see if you've answered the all important question: "Does the size of the 'ring spanner' matter?" Great video. Here in the Colonies, we call that thing-a-ma-jig you stir your fuel mixture with an "end wrench," but who knew that it could also be used as a mixing stick! . . . I subscribed.
Thanks mate. Life would be less fun if we didn't mess around
I run mine on 80% filtered waste oil and 20% unleaded gasoline. Runs excellent. This is what I had premixed I use in my Tdi jetta. Very close to the viscosity of diesel fuel. Burns very clean in the heater so far.
Filtered waste motor oil? Veg oil?
@@Oneupthesleevecustoms Waste motor oil. I have an unlimited supply of it. I mix 4 to 1 with gasoline and pump it through a 1 micron sock filter. The heater runs clean with no smoke at all.
Thats awesome ill have to service my van and have a go
I only tried that mix because I had it on hand. Going to try running 3 to 1 this week. I bought three of these heaters to heat my shop, and have been testing one of them on motor oil before I set them all up. I am quite pleased. Runs better than my converted waste oil burner I have used for years.
They kick out heaps of heat. 5kw ones?
Veg diesel users around here have a special exhaust pre-heater for the bio diesel. It raises the flash point. They have two valves where they can start on diesel until it gets up to temp, then switch to veg when the combustion chamber is hot enough. This heater you would likely just have to leave both valves on to basically get a 50/50 mix on a hot combustion chamber. Oh always shut down on diesel if you can.
that's a good idea mate cheers
That's a good test of waste verge oil and diesel. Checking the burn chamber would give you proof positive if you can use that mix.
Thanks for the great video ! Have you thought of trying used automobile oil ? or auto oil diesel mixture ? My garage is also messy if i cleaned it up i would have a heck of a time finding anything . People that say your garage is a mess Should take a good hard look at their living conditions . Haters will always be haters . MERRY CHRISTMAS & HAPPY NEW YEAR 2019 ! Cheers
Thanks for watching mate same to you:)
Yes you can improve the viscosity by pre heating the vegetable oil though some sort of heat exchanger but the oil still has to be burnt with a lot of air to to incinerate that glycerine fraction.
Thanks mate i didnt know about that
What glycerine fraction? Glycerine/glycerol only comes into play from making biodiesel which is not being done here. The VO is mixed and burnt directly.
Just wondering how you got on with this over time ? Did you end up with yellow glycol polymerisation in your heater like an old deep fat fryer ?
Another great video, thanks! I'd still love to see you pass straight vegetable oil through a couple of loops of copper fuel pipe around the exhaust outlet pipe to reduce viscosity after warm up on diesel, there's no reason you couldn't burn 100% then. Waste veggie and waste engine oil can both be found free.
Im yet to test the preheat methods
@@Oneupthesleevecustoms No pressure but Keen to find out. The next obvious tests would be waste vegetable oil and used motor oil (don't ever mix them) though a racor diesel fuel filter/water separator between the heater coil and fuel input (warm oil is easier to filter than cold). There are even Chinese knock off racor /Parker filters.
Im keen to test anything i can :) this is why people watch my channel:) :)
Oh I just asked this about hot veg oil... I've just bought one and ready to have a play myself.. bio diesel is no different to a 50/50 mix.. I run my car with standard no alterations on a 50/50 mix if diesel and filtered waste cooking oil from local chip shop the engine drives better and I'm basicly achieving between 100 _ 140 MPG. I WILL ALSO MAKE A VIDEO LATER
@@Oneupthesleevecustoms I've been watching your videos on this, and bought a heater in hopes it would run of straight oil (the next day you posted a video showing it won't work haha) Anyways, I can get a lot of WVO for free and have made a few batches of really really garbage bio-diesel. I was trying to see how lazy I could be in the process. 400 micron filter, didn't titrate butI used about 8.2 grams of KOH 92%, and 15% methanol. All I did was drain off the glycerin and ran it right into the heater, no washing. Has been running for a few weeks here. Might be something you would want to play with since running off store bough new veg oil isn't really cost effective. I would be interested to see if pre-heating the oil would make it work on straight oil.
I'd also be interested to see used motor oil attempted if you're willing to potentially wreck the unit. Let it warm up good on diesel then switch to used oil for a better chance of ignition. If it works, see if it will sustain.
Ill try a mix of motor oil and diesel
In regard to some comments here about burning used engine oil, it should work if filtered and mixed up to 40 or 50 percent with diesel but I wouldn't run it in my parking heater as automotive oil now contains anti burn agents. I don't fancy myself cleaning the burn chamber that often.
That makes sense. There is alot of additives in modern oil
what is advantage of veg oil? It is more expensive to purchase correct? Yes you can get used stuff but that is dirty. Do they make a 120 volt version of these heaters?
Not seen a ac version. Yes mainly if you could get free veg oil/get it cheap. Ive tested a few different fuels
Kerosene (or Home Heating Oil in the UK), is very similar to #1 Diesel, which has a lower flash point than #2 Diesel (auto diesel). It is cheaper to buy than #2 Diesel because you're not paying road taxes and with the lower flash point, mixing in some straight vegetable oil would probably work out a bit easier. If you continue to go the biodiesel route, you might blend in SVO as it gets warmed up. I used to make biodiesel for my Jetta TDI back in the day.
Yeah it would work a bunch better if there was some compression to help it burn
Exactly what I wanted to know thank you , the sheds perfect and you work exactly how 90% do mixing shit up with the closest spanner 🤗👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻❤️
Haha thanks mate. Rather get stuff done than have a clean shed haha
how about a 25/75 mix diesel/ veg oil. like the idea of used motor oil as well
I'm sure works because I just did 30/70 on my.
Happy with the results
Does the fuel oil mix separate in the tank ?
Over time be no issues in a vehicle
@@Oneupthesleevecustoms Thank you
I have been mucking around with used vegetable oil from the local fish and chip shop for years. I have burnt it mixed with diesel in my old digger and it runs well. BUT. Vegetable oil needs to burn at a much higher temperature than diesel to burn off the glycerine fraction otherwise it carbons up the engine. Has anyone dismantled the burn chamber to assess just how clean it will burn? Is there any unburnt residue from the vegetable oil fraction of the mixture.
Yet to open but mostly ran on diesel ag again now
well done good video that it works with mix 50/50 veg oil and diesel could work out a lot cheaper in long run
Yeah runs well on it
hi use the heater to start on diesel then switch to pure veg oil but heated with a container attached to the exhaust pipe as gets thinner when heated
Does it work
Just noticed you are a powerwaller too. Good man. PS you could capture some of that waste heat going out the exhaust and heat water with it if you used an EGR cooler (mazda ones are cheap as hell here in the UK) + 12v pump to pump water around it.
Haha thanks man check this video out
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Vegetable oil probably would have work if you got the unit up the heat using diesel and then switch fuels some multi-fuel cars use this technique like getting the engine up to temperature with diesel and then switching fuels different fuels will work
Cars have the big advantage of compression:) sadly thats somthing these miss out on but if i could heat oil to flash point ish. It would run easy
The idea is to use used veg. oil that you can get for free. It has to be filtered and pre heated to work and then with a fair solar array you get FREE HEAT!
Free heat from waste is the goal
Reclaimed cooking oil is still mixed 25/75% diesel to bio oil.
Any idea how long a full tank lasts, I understand that their 10 litres but wanted to know how long you get out a tank?
My testing has shown between 350 and 450ml a hour flat out
Can you run it on fish oil? Haha, that would stink! Btw, are you still installing one in your neighbors cabin or wherever? I'd love to see a video of at least the finished job and a good long test run in there...
Yeah i have too yet still not done when i do ill video it for every one
Imagine the smell
Maybe running out on straight diesel occasionally might keep it clean.
Kerosene is even bettet
Any updates on longer term wvo/diesel mixes? Is the chamber staying clean enough to still run over time? Also did you ever get around to wmo/diesel mixes?
I normally run diesel now but its been running a couple nights a week for last few weeks as its getting colder here
Never opened it either. Running well. 5050 diesel veg works well yet to try motor oil as i have not setup to filter it
@@Oneupthesleevecustoms something to consider. Motor oil is already being filtered constantly by the vehicles filter. And water build up should not be an issue unless it was a vehicle sitting unused forever. So in theory waste motor oil should be relatively clean as long as your collecting apparatus and storage of it is not contaminated. But sure more filtering the better. Centrifuge is probably best.
To be honest i don't think it will be cost effective for me. Will look into it though
Try veg oil and unleaded petrol 90%/10%. I used to do veg oil 95% to petrol 5% in diesel cars from pre 2000, and it worked a treat. Petrol thins the oil down much better than diesel.
Does it stay mixed
@@Oneupthesleevecustoms Absolutely yes. The reason I suggest 90/10 is because petrol mixes better than diesel, it's more potent. It was well worth doing even with new veg oil because it was about a third of the price as diesel years ago. Now you might want to ask a friendly chip shop owner for some used stuff, but be sure to filter it well. There are loads of videos on that. Then just keep trying until you get the right mix.
Ill give it a small scale test cheers
Using that mixture, did you need to modify the vehicles, IE heat the fuel line, or unmodified? And does it get cold where you live?
I'm in Melbourne, gets fairly cold.
Thank you!!
I've done 70 waste motor oil 30 unleaded before
@0:18 Yikes, look at that spider. Freaky!
We get some good ones here and they are all nasty
@@Oneupthesleevecustoms do you get spiders the size of dinner plates or is that an urban legend? 😆 🕷 Spiders large enough to fight your dog?
Try to wrap a copperpipe or something around the exhaust to warm the veg oil before it enters the heater, that might work if you get it heated enough. But you have to runn it with diesel for some minutes.
It works well.as a mixture
How do you keep your garage so tidy, I cant get in mine.
Its a battle to much stuff to work on bugger all time
@@Oneupthesleevecustoms lol, I have a kind of path from door to tool boxes to lathe. If u count stepping over stuff. Like more tools and projects in mid production lol
I neat work shop won't make me get any more done less as I need to clean it
Did you ever try with biodiesel? Thinking of getting this unit and making biodiesel from veg oil
have not got my hands on any
I make bio diesel and I reckon it'll work . Gonna get one because I'm over cutting 15 friggin tonnes of fire wood every winter.
Yep tell me about it.
an interesting test would be veg oil and petrol mix for those who use them in petrol vehicles.
Hi been running mine on paraffin seems ok,but I’ve had to use some 10A10mic diodes in parallel to reduce the voltage when my alternator is charging my leisure battery because the mother board on the heater does not like going over 14volts I wonder weather yours does?🙂
I guess that's better than burning the igniter up.... At least it was an easy workaround.
Never checked i only really use it off my storage pack of a night time
Good thinking really
Could you run the exhaust through a heat exchanger and heat water or does the exhaust need to run hot to help with the fumes
ua-cam.com/video/-LDGkoWCbGQ/v-deo.html
ive had a go it should definatly work just a mater of a long enough exchanger and insulate every thing
Another nice experiment, I think it’s a case of trying different mixtures , with different oils🌋
Yeah i tryed 80% it was too smokey
Hey mate, I'm not sure if its been suggested yet but would you want to give Kero and Veg oil a go? I use Kero with my heater. Cheers
Ive done veg and shellite
Could you run part of exhaust back into the intake and use the heat and carbon for advantage?
Not sure if the carbon will re burn but preheating the intake air on combustion and intake would be beneficial
@@Oneupthesleevecustoms sleeve the intake over the exhaust or vice versa and exchange heat, like a gas boiler, heating the fuel wd be good too
Yeah make a exhaust heat reclaimer
How many watts at 12v does it use an hour?
I'm thinking about solar powering one for camping
At 12.6v it uses 10amps for about 1min then down to about 2 amps so 24 to 30watts
Awesome to see the viscosity difference let it run. I was wondering if we can connect on Facebook. I would like to help with this project because once you can get it to run straight Veg Oil then I will buy one to do the same.
Also been thinking a lot about this project. The exhaust wastes a lot of heat that you can recuperate with using some steel gas pipe. At that thought I suggest not using the exhaust to heat the Veg Oil it may get to hot and to complicated. I think you need to have 2 tanks start on the 50/50 mix then you can switch to Veg ounce you use the heat from the air vent to get the Veg Oil hot. And the heat in there should be just hot enough to get it thin enough to burn and not risk the Veg Oil from autoignition from the exhaust.
I think you could push it out to 70 30 veg diesel
If you heat up the veg oil (maybe a coiled tube around the exhaust pipe) would it run (after warming up with straight diesel)?
Yes apparently used waste veg oil is better all the moisture cooked out
@@Oneupthesleevecustoms no I meant, to heat up the fresh oil to make it burn by itself by means of coiling the fuel tube around the exhaust pipe. I understand you’d have to run the heater on diesel for a while before shutting down to clear out the oil so it’ll start again next time. But maybe that way the heater can ‘cruise’ on 100% vegetable oil with only minimal actual diesel use on startup and shut down?
That would sure make it alot cheaper to run
Make a small amount of biodiesel to try it on
nice and good to know. this thing can run all day night long on minimum with the mix.
Not sure if it would build up on low but runs no sweat
You could try waste diesel engine oil my diesel car ran on it for 3 years mixed with straight diesel car runs flat out on engine oil when the turbo lets oil into the inlet manifold
Like when a turbo seal blows?
@@Oneupthesleevecustoms a diesel engine runs flat out when the seals go need to stall it cutting the fuel supply makes no difference
@@marksmith5156 lol that's got to suck
Can you try used motor oil and diesel 50/50?
Yeah why not
Any chance you have tried the motor oil blend yet?
Not yet sorry mate
@@joekimanski9686 I det that. greetings from Slovenia 🇸🇮
Oh never mind that giant spider on the wall at about 0:45 ! Of course, assuming that this is Australia, it is surely deadly but likely not even close to big by Australian standards.
They get as big as a dinner plate :) they don't really bite hard. Least of your animal worries here
Okay, so I'm not the only one to notice... it's just a little Australian house spider.
It's called name is Huntsman spider no dangerous.
Yeah they don't really bite
What about biofuel. Veggy isn't biodiesel unless processed. I plan on getting biodiesel veggy. Filtered and spun. Why hasn't anyone tried this yet
Not sure veg oil and diesel mix works gerat
Thanks for sharing, keep them coming.
No prob. Got bio deisel and shellite to test next
@@Oneupthesleevecustoms look forward to the vids.
Cheers Thanks for watching mate
Great! Yt Voice captioning is hilarious. No offense, love the accent. Apparently AI can't translate ...yet...that can be a good thing.
Cheers!
Not the dreaded auto captions haha they don't speak aussie
I can't think of a smart comment at the moment.filtered fish an chip oil and diesel or kero mix sould be interesting.
It will smell amazing all the neighborhood will be looking for the cookout
Diesel MIX 👍 very god 😎
Worked well ;)
Sweet :)
Why not try biodiesel made fro waste vegetable oil.
Didn't have any
Not that hard to make it youself. Since you just were to test it you can do it from fresh oil. Rape seed or corn oil, some natrium hydroxide and some methanol and Voila!! Don't have the volumes in the recipe but google is your friend :-)
Have you tried running the heater on HOT VEGETABLE OIL !
You can run old diesel engines on 100% filtered waste vegetable cooking oil but it has to be hot !
This has no injector or compression its at a big disadvantage to a engine
@@Oneupthesleevecustoms ok thanks.. I've got one now and will use 50/50 free filtered waste veg oil and halve price red diesel so should be very cheap to run . Thanks for the video...
P.S whoever it was called me a tight are for using free fuel YES I'm a tight arse and save where ever I can LOL.. Oh I also save at least £2000 per year running my cars on free waste veg oil, I love it :-)
No stress mate hope it goes awesome
is your air intake ouside or inside?
Heat or combustion air?
That poor ring spanner. The internet will be mortified
They get sad haha
He is just rust proofing the wrench
Basically wd40
Looks to run good it is time I run to the restaurants to get used oil 🤣 hahahaha😂 wahooo super cheap
If you mix up oil and diesel cheap for sure
That’s the plan
Did you try running it on petrol?
No mate it would explode
@@Oneupthesleevecustoms I see no problem 😂
Its heat output would be very high for a few mins
They do make a petrol (gasoline) version of this heater that looks to be the same basic design, but it seems to be proving pretty hard to get my hands on in practice. When inquiring, one Chinese seller told me the diesel version would work with petrol (gasoline), but "diesel is better"... Which didn't exactly inspire a lot of confidence -- figure that may well mean "gasoline will burn, but diesel doesn't explode" :P
Any idea what the difference with a gasoline version would be? The one notable difference on the spec sheets is that the gasoline version consumes fuel marginally faster (presumably because of diesel's higher energy content?). Was thinking there would need to be some change to the fuel-air ratio for it to burn optimally, but are you saying the basic mechanism of this heater simply won't work for gasoline at all?
If you are willing to give it a test, I'd love to see what it takes to make gasoline work!
Was that a huge spider on the wall at 0.46 ?
Shit I missed that but yeah that’s a big ass spider
That's a box end wrench
Does the 50/50 mixture affect the heat output?
Doesn't seem too it should still be very carbon dense
No, calorific density is very close. Can't tell on my car.
Thanks mate
Has anyone ever tested a combo containing RC Model airplane Nitro Fuel?
It's only a refined kerosene sort of thing it would be fine
Filtered used motor oil would probably work at a 10 to 20% to diesel mix.
45s in that fucking spider omg
Haha i didnt notice him
Why???
Cause you can get 1000s of litres of veg oil for free
@@Oneupthesleevecustoms dirty vegie oil which you need to filter. Just to save 100 mils of diesel an hour. Life is too short.
What Hz settings u use here ??
5 ore 8kw ??
In secret 1688 menu
No idea I normally set it to high
@@Oneupthesleevecustoms can you see and share whit us ur Hz settings??
5hz mate
are you willing to test on with US gasoline not diesel,, most motor homes here do not use diesel,, I believe the computer on the unit will control the unit by temperature...will you bench test it for us on UA-cam...
No it will explode
you don't know. when I have the time ,, I will do it myself. as my RV runs on gasoline.I don't want to have another fuel and tank.your answer is just silly... and useless ...I saw a man on UA-cam doing just that but, I can no longer fine it.
Its not designed for the flash point. Exhaust will become a flame thrower
Did anyone notice the spider on the wall lol
I think there was someone else too haha
One Up The Sleeve Customs oh are you still running that heater I’m doing a camper van build and I would like to use a Diesel
Not for couple of months but it has done prob around 600 hours no issues
I have 600 watts at 24 volts solar and 200 amp hour at 24 volt storage 2 8000 watt Chinies heaters and free veg. oil
Straight veg oil?
Sorry does anybody have a link this in the UK plz 😉
As in a uk seller
That thing sure is noisy
too bad the veg oil is just as expensive as diesel :(
Id.your buying it new :)
It's currently about 30% cheaper in the UK (if you shop around) and there are sometimes supermarket money-off deals available. Last year I bought 75l of rapeseed oil from Sainsbury's for about 60p/litre. (Diesel is c.£1.30/ltr. at moment.)
Peanut oil
Be more or less the same?
Does the amount of exhaust you breath matter? 😆
Yeah it's not tasty
I think all you need to do is add sodium hydroxide to vegetable oil to turn it into biofuel. Here in Canada, we can't get 100% Sodium hydroxide or Potasium Nitrate becasuse CANADA SUCKS!
And alcohol
Wouldn't potassium nitrate create nitroglycerin?
@@patrickday4206 . Yes you're right. Unless you're an adult.
Why can’t we get it here?I was interested in making biodiesel myself and run it 50/50 with diesel
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