Mailing List flyrotary@lancaironline.net Message #30541
From: Bob Perkinson <bobperk@bellsouth.net>
Subject: RE: [FlyRotary] Re: Heaters
Date: Mon, 6 Mar 2006 12:54:40 -0600
To: Rotary motors in aircraft <flyrotary@lancaironline.net>
My thought has been to mount a heater core on the fire wall and have coolant flow through it all the time.  Using a damper system either dump the hot air out the bottom of the cowl or direct it into the cabin.  The only problem I can see with this is the space on the firewall needed to mount the heater core and air plenum.  Any thoughts on this?
 

Bob Perkinson
Hendersonville, TN.
RV9 N658RP Reserved
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Yeah, Joe.   I have an oil cooler core sitting on my side of the firewall that extracts heat from the coolant system.   However, the small amount of heat its capable of extracting is so small compared to the thousands of BTU of heat you need to get rid of each minute from a flying rotary that the effect on cooling is nil. 
 
 
Ed
----- Original Message -----
From: Joe Berki
Sent: Monday, March 06, 2006 12:23 PM
Subject: [FlyRotary] Heaters

Has anyone designed a separate system that extracts heat from the engine compartment or components to heat a fluid in a separate system using a heat exchanger to dump the heat into the cabin and a separate pump?  This way you are not making this system part of the engine cooling system and can run lower pressure and be able to shut it off without affecting the engine system.  I was thinking of a device that subarus had sandwitched between the oil filter and the block.  Any thoughts?
 
Joe Berki
Limo EZ 
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