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Feb 11, 2010 21:04:16 GMT
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I have a heater in my ford fire truck in the front a mini one.But i have started to take to bits the spare mini bus i have and there is a heater under the middle seat.It has to pipes.I want to connect it to the heater i already have do i just put a T piece in.Thanks
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spiny
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plumbing a extra heater inspiny
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Feb 11, 2010 21:10:29 GMT
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putting them in series would be better, otherwise if one has better flow than the other, the majority of the coolant will go through that way, being the path of least resistance.
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Feb 11, 2010 21:18:48 GMT
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Hi sorry to sound a bit thick but how would i put them in series.At the moment i have two pipes coming from the engine then they go into the truck one to the inlet and one to the outlet on the heater.So i easy words i would i pipe in the extra one thanks
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Feb 11, 2010 21:23:37 GMT
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I think i got it do i take the pipe from the engine then to inlet heater one then out of heater then into heater two then out and back to the engine.
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Feb 11, 2010 21:47:11 GMT
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yup, thats the way to do it, the water will have lost some of its heat by the time it reaches the second one but should still be hot enough to work.
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Feb 11, 2010 23:26:13 GMT
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Series and parallel:  Series would have water going into one, then coming out and going into another. Parallel would have water t-junctioning off into a number of matrices and then coming into one pipe.  |
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Last Edit: Feb 11, 2010 23:26:52 GMT by DavidB
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Feb 13, 2010 21:12:44 GMT
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Series:
From engine - - - >heater 1 - - - >heater 2 - - - > back to engine
Parallel:
From engine - - - >heater 1 - - - >back to engine
. . . . . . . . . . .|- ->heater 2 ->|
In words: in series, the water flows from the engine to heater 1, the outlet of heater 1 goes to the inlet of heater 2, the outlet of heater 2 goes back to the engine. All the water HAS to flow through heater1 AND THEN heater 2 before returning to the engine.
In parallel the water flows from the engine and splits with some going through heater 1 and some going through heater 2 before rejoining and returning to the engine.
As has been mentioned, the downside with running two heaters in parallel is that the water will naturally find the easiest route, so if one heater is slight more blocked than the other, or there's more pipe work to got through, the water will take the path of least resistance, hence will tend to only flow through one of the heaters.
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