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#111 Avg.Joe

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Posted 16 November 2020 - 12:39 PM

I finished the heater installation yesterday. I wasn't able to get it working though. It didn't come with any instructions and the controller programming doesn't match what I could find on the interwebs.

After emailing the seller last night, I found a response with pdf instructions this morning. We'll be giving it another try today. With thousands of these units out there, I'm sure mine will work great once I figure out how to work it.
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Posted 24 November 2020 - 12:41 AM

Heater update: The heater seller refunded enough money for me to get another controller after I couldn't get theirs to do anything.
The new one arrived and after hooking it up, it showed a line fault. That made sense because the first controller should've shown line voltage but didn't.
All the wires and connectors checked good. It looks like a bad motherboard.
Now I'm waiting for the seller to answer my request for a new unit or a refund so I can replace the motherboard.
It's a pain for sure but it'll work at some point.
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Posted 03 December 2020 - 06:18 PM

I love wire loom. It turns a birds nest of wire into something that looks clean and organized.
Wiring is all done.

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Posted 03 December 2020 - 06:21 PM

Looks like you have a heater control panel mounted, did you get that all resolved? Are you pulling diesel from your trucks fuel tank(don't recall what truck your putting this on) or you doing an auxiliary tank?

 

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Posted 03 December 2020 - 06:27 PM

We decided not to go with the Lagun table leg and instead followed directions from a YouTube video for a DIY version. The top swivels easily giving infinite setup possibilities and the top can be easily removed by simply unthreading from the leg. I am super happy with how it turned out. The top was made with scraps. I wasn't sure how it would look but stain and poly really turned it into a good looking table. All in on this part was $50.

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Posted 03 December 2020 - 06:30 PM

The Iceco fridge is now in place and wired direct to the fuse block. It was 55°F in the camper and the fridge cooled to 37°F in about 20 minutes drawing about 2.5 amps. The meter shows more but I had a couple of lights on. In the dark it read 2.5.

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Posted 03 December 2020 - 08:08 PM

[quote name="Bike_Mech" post="244132" timestamp="1607019668"]Looks like you have a heater control panel mounted, did you get that all resolved? Are you pulling diesel from your trucks fuel tank(don't recall what truck your putting this on) or you doing an auxiliary tank?
 
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The new display gave me a fault code that helped diagnose what looks like a bad motherboard. I've got a new one on order. Fuel for the heater is in a 5 gallon jug in an exterior compartment. I'll try to remember to get a pic of that uploaded.
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Posted 13 December 2020 - 11:22 PM

The new motherboard for the heater was installed this afternoon. Initially it gave another error code e-01 low voltage. After some digging, I found a Chinese language YouTube video on how to get into the menu where voltage is. It came set for 24v so I changed that to 12v and the code went away.
After priming the fuel line, it fired up and ran great albeit a little stinky. All worked as expected. I'll run it a bunch more in the coming week or so to make sure it's going to be reliable.

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Posted 15 December 2020 - 02:58 PM

Just came across your build. Read the whole thing. Absolutely amazing what you have done. Thanks for sharing the build. JD
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Posted 15 December 2020 - 10:33 PM

Thanks for reading the thread JD. It's been fun to build and I'm still working to finish it.
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