Installing A Diesel Heater At The Off Grid Cabin

all right so I've just got this tacked up got one screw here I put a little brace right here that I've got it sitting on I don't have it attached to the bottom yet but uh I had to do that cuz I'm uh installing this by myself and I've got a tank that's half full of uh diesel so just doing the best I can I did make sure it was level before I uh attached that screw right there so we should be good to go from here n [Applause] [Music] [Applause] okay I just wanted to go in far enough to Mark the center point so I can get a small drill bit a small long drill bit to drill all the way through so I know which where to come back so that I have both holes lined up on the inside and the outside all right this should do the trick [Music] [Music] all right now I can go on the inside drill my hole well let me finish this one first my Center hole is right right here so this wire is going to be right next to the heat duct so nothing I can do about it now I guess it's possible I could move move that over let's see what we got here see what we're looking at here I think I can move that a little bit maybe just angle it so that it's out of the way without having to drill a new hole so now I need to uh drill my electrical hole so so that I can run my wiring and uh connect this up to my [Applause] [Music] [Music] battery all right I got it close it's not exact so I'm going to see if I can't pull it through success let's see if I can move this got the wrong screwdriver there okay reaches my fuse box so I should be able to connect this directly to my fuse box all right I got it routed and plugged in here yep I've got power so I'm going to go ahead get my uh this panel installed and I need to uh put some heat tape around this to protect the wood on that panel before I put that panel on let me uh see if I can't turn it on with the app here okay I've got my H calorie app right here okay it's connected and it's on standby got my high Plateau enabled so let's turn on the heat confirm okay it's coming on so I just need to uh wait a few minutes and we'll see if I've got hot air coming out the exhaust okay looks like it's burning off a little bit of diesel this is why I mounted the heater outside right there so what's happening right now is the uh glow plug is heating up and then once it comes up to temperature then the uh fan will kick on it'll start blowing hot air into the cabin and we'll get hot exhaust out the back here okay I can hear the the pump ticking all right so that's starting to warm up let's go inside and see how how it feels coming out the vent it's starting to get a little bit warm was able to get this routed out of the way I'm going to need to clip that back take some stress off of that I think that's going to work just fine I'm going to go ahead and close up that outer panel all all right now let's turn that off deactivate [Music] confirm device is shutting down it'll continue to blow the the fan to cool the glow plug down and all the different components the heating elements [Music] [Music] [Music] [Applause] okay next I attached the muffler to the end of the exhaust pipe and then I attached the entire exhaust assembly to the box with a standoff that held the exhaust about an inch away from the box okay next I wrapped the exhaust pipe with fiberglass heat tape and I started inside the hole and took it all the way to the muffler this is the fresh air intake and it is installed and attached directly to the diesel heater and I have it coming out of the box on the opposite end of the exhaust and this is an air vent attached to the top of the box which just allows um air flow inside the box so that's going to do it for this week's video so I'll talk to you guys later