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Connecting a Calorifier to a Ford Dorset
I have a 4cyl Ford Dorset engine and I want to connect it to the heating
coil in calorifier. I assume the aim is to have the engine cooling water flowing through the calorifier before it reaches the bowman heat exchanger. There is, what looks like, a 3/8" bsp plug next to the thermostat housing, but if I take a feed from here I will effectively bypass the thermostat and the engine would take ages, to reach it's working temperature, if at all. If I put 2 tee pieces between the engine and the heat exchanger will the water actually flow round that loop, the flow and return would be very close together. If I put a tee in the flow before the heat exchanger and the return after it, would I risk significantly bypassing the heat exchanger. Any ideas, suggestions? I guess the set up is fundamentally the same on any engine. |
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Connecting a Calorifier to a Ford Dorset
On Sat, 29 Oct 2011 13:37:46 +0100, "Nigel"
wrote: I have a 4cyl Ford Dorset engine and I want to connect it to the heating coil in calorifier. I assume the aim is to have the engine cooling water flowing through the calorifier before it reaches the bowman heat exchanger. There is, what looks like, a 3/8" bsp plug next to the thermostat housing, but if I take a feed from here I will effectively bypass the thermostat and the engine would take ages, to reach it's working temperature, if at all. If I put 2 tee pieces between the engine and the heat exchanger will the water actually flow round that loop, the flow and return would be very close together. If I put a tee in the flow before the heat exchanger and the return after it, would I risk significantly bypassing the heat exchanger. Any ideas, suggestions? I guess the set up is fundamentally the same on any engine. The only boat I had with a hot water heater used the existing connections on the engine. As I remember it, it did not take an unusual amount of time to warn up. Apparently a 3/8" connection does not bypass a sufficient portion of the water pump output to be noticeable. See http://www.sailangle.com/articles/details/id/11 for additional information. -- Cheers, Bruce |
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Connecting a Calorifier to a Ford Dorset
"Bruce" wrote in message ... On Sat, 29 Oct 2011 13:37:46 +0100, "Nigel" wrote: I have a 4cyl Ford Dorset engine and I want to connect it to the heating coil in calorifier. I assume the aim is to have the engine cooling water flowing through the calorifier before it reaches the bowman heat exchanger. There is, what looks like, a 3/8" bsp plug next to the thermostat housing, but if I take a feed from here I will effectively bypass the thermostat and the engine would take ages, to reach it's working temperature, if at all. If I put 2 tee pieces between the engine and the heat exchanger will the water actually flow round that loop, the flow and return would be very close together. If I put a tee in the flow before the heat exchanger and the return after it, would I risk significantly bypassing the heat exchanger. Any ideas, suggestions? I guess the set up is fundamentally the same on any engine. The only boat I had with a hot water heater used the existing connections on the engine. As I remember it, it did not take an unusual amount of time to warn up. Apparently a 3/8" connection does not bypass a sufficient portion of the water pump output to be noticeable. See http://www.sailangle.com/articles/details/id/11 for additional information. -- Cheers, Bruce Thanks Bruce, that chimes with the majority of opinion I've had so I guess I ought to suck it and see., I'll let you know how it goes Cheers Nigel |
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Connecting a Calorifier to a Ford Dorset
On Mon, 7 Nov 2011 09:19:30 -0000, "Nigel"
wrote: "Bruce" wrote in message .. . On Sat, 29 Oct 2011 13:37:46 +0100, "Nigel" wrote: I have a 4cyl Ford Dorset engine and I want to connect it to the heating coil in calorifier. I assume the aim is to have the engine cooling water flowing through the calorifier before it reaches the bowman heat exchanger. There is, what looks like, a 3/8" bsp plug next to the thermostat housing, but if I take a feed from here I will effectively bypass the thermostat and the engine would take ages, to reach it's working temperature, if at all. If I put 2 tee pieces between the engine and the heat exchanger will the water actually flow round that loop, the flow and return would be very close together. If I put a tee in the flow before the heat exchanger and the return after it, would I risk significantly bypassing the heat exchanger. Any ideas, suggestions? I guess the set up is fundamentally the same on any engine. The only boat I had with a hot water heater used the existing connections on the engine. As I remember it, it did not take an unusual amount of time to warn up. Apparently a 3/8" connection does not bypass a sufficient portion of the water pump output to be noticeable. See http://www.sailangle.com/articles/details/id/11 for additional information. -- Cheers, Bruce Thanks Bruce, that chimes with the majority of opinion I've had so I guess I ought to suck it and see., I'll let you know how it goes Cheers Nigel In thinking about it you could plumb in a 3/8" valve at the engine outlet and open it when you wanted to make hot water, in fact it is a good idea.. I had a electric/calorifier hot water tank, perhaps 20 Ltr capacity and on a cool Singapore evening I used to run the engine, probably 15 - 20 minutes to get enough water to shower in. You probably know this but it is a proper calorifier it has an over temperature/over pressure relief valve in it. Running my 4 cylinder Perkins engine at say 2,000 RPM for any length of time, say 45 minutes - 1 hour, would heat the tank enough that the over heat valve would open and flow water down into the bilge. -- Cheers, Bruce |
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In thinking about it you could plumb in a 3/8" valve at the engine outlet and open it when you wanted to make hot water, in fact it is a good idea.. I had a electric/calorifier hot water tank, perhaps 20 Ltr capacity and on a cool Singapore evening I used to run the engine, probably 15 - 20 minutes to get enough water to shower in. You probably know this but it is a proper calorifier it has an over temperature/over pressure relief valve in it. Running my 4 cylinder Perkins engine at say 2,000 RPM for any length of time, say 45 minutes - 1 hour, would heat the tank enough that the over heat valve would open and flow water down into the bilge. -- Cheers, Bruce I had thought of adding valves on both the flow and return, then if I ever had a problem with the calorifier it wouldn't need to affect the engine. I might see if I can source a 24v thermostatic valve that would shut off supply to the calorifier once it had reached temperature. The set up I currently have is a twin coil, 65lt calorifier with an electric emersion heater. I have a Reflex diesel heater that runs a couple of radiators plus the hot water. It takes a while buts works pretty well on a cold evening, but most times through the summer it puts to much heat into the cabin to be useful as a water heater. Cheers Nigel |
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Connecting a Calorifier to a Ford Dorset
On Mon, 7 Nov 2011 20:49:56 -0000, "Nigel"
wrote: snip In thinking about it you could plumb in a 3/8" valve at the engine outlet and open it when you wanted to make hot water, in fact it is a good idea.. I had a electric/calorifier hot water tank, perhaps 20 Ltr capacity and on a cool Singapore evening I used to run the engine, probably 15 - 20 minutes to get enough water to shower in. You probably know this but it is a proper calorifier it has an over temperature/over pressure relief valve in it. Running my 4 cylinder Perkins engine at say 2,000 RPM for any length of time, say 45 minutes - 1 hour, would heat the tank enough that the over heat valve would open and flow water down into the bilge. -- Cheers, Bruce I had thought of adding valves on both the flow and return, then if I ever had a problem with the calorifier it wouldn't need to affect the engine. I might see if I can source a 24v thermostatic valve that would shut off supply to the calorifier once it had reached temperature. The set up I currently have is a twin coil, 65lt calorifier with an electric emersion heater. I have a Reflex diesel heater that runs a couple of radiators plus the hot water. It takes a while buts works pretty well on a cold evening, but most times through the summer it puts to much heat into the cabin to be useful as a water heater. Cheers Nigel Good Lord, what kind of boat is this? A 65 ltr. hot water tank? (but more seriously I think valves on inlet and outlet would be a good idea.) -- Cheers, Bruce |
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Good Lord, what kind of boat is this? A 65 ltr. hot water tank? snip lol..... she's a Bruce Roberts 53 .. www.jassira.com (website could do with some work as well ) |
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Connecting a Calorifier to a Ford Dorset
On Tue, 8 Nov 2011 08:10:05 -0000, "Nigel"
wrote: Good Lord, what kind of boat is this? A 65 ltr. hot water tank? snip lol..... she's a Bruce Roberts 53 .. www.jassira.com (website could do with some work as well ) A lovely boat. I knew a bloke who had one. Bought one as a hollow shell, in Singapore and spent years doing the interior - then sold it :-( -- Cheers, Bruce |
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