Diesel heater for greenhouse

[basstracker89]

Not so important down here, but I could have used one of those when I lived up north to keep the engine block on my truck warm during winter nights.

That's what the plug is for........Sides, if you were drivin a Cummins you wouldn't need it.......

 

[basstracker89]

Haven't decided yet. That shed where the heater sits has a 120v outlet, so I may just put a low-amp battery maintainer on the battery. That battery is a spare at the moment, and the benefit of using the battery rather than a 12v power brick is the setup will still work if we lose power.

The trickler sounds like the best idea

 

[rbstern]

The treasure has been moved into the vault...

 

[HERMET]

in for details on the heater

I've been heating my greenhouse for years with an electric heater and a small woodburning stove for when the power goes out (it always goes out) it works well but it's certainly not cost efficient.
I may need to pick up one of these and give it a try. It certainly wouldn't hurt to have one as a stand-by heater regardless.

 

[buellbrewer]

The treasure has been moved into the vault...

So many of those plants I recognize as ones my mom had. We used to bring in all hers when it got cold and put on screened in porch/ wrapped in plastic.

 

[basstracker89]

I've been heating my greenhouse for years with an electric heater and a small woodburning stove for when the power goes out (it always goes out) it works well but it's certainly not cost efficient.
I may need to pick up one of these and give it a try. It certainly wouldn't hurt to have one as a stand-by heater regardless.

You have a stove, you're good. But the price is right on that one

 

[basstracker89]

The treasure has been moved into the vault...

Looks nice

 

[LARGO9]

The treasure has been moved into the vault...

Looks nice and Toasty in there

 

[IMDB]

Project Farm did a ytube about these heaters a while back.

 

[rbstern]

First overnight test results:

At the lowest setting, the heater kept the 8x14 greenhouse at +20 degrees over ambient air temp. Ran it for about 15 hours, and it used just about 1 gallon of fuel. Greenhouse was at 56 degrees this morning before the sun hit it. Air temps overnight here were in the mid 30s.

We're only running manually at the moment, haven't attempted any Bluetooth control of it yet.