Hcalory 8Kw Diesel Heater | For The Off Grid Cabin

okay so I've got a new diesel heater uh from H calorie and uh this was sent to me in exchange for an honest review and what we're going to do in this video is we're going to go we're going to open this up take a look at the inside we're going to go through all of the different components that uh come with the unit we're going to talk about how to hook this up and we're going to fill it up with some Diesel and we're going to run it and uh then we'll have our final thoughts so with that let's get to it all right so this is the uh tank where you open it up and you put your uh diesel fuel in there has a little filter take a look at the front we've got our uh control panel here this is how you'll turn it on and uh get it primed and set up and run this is your output you have this hose that comes with it which uh connects on right here and then you can redirect this you know to wherever you want your heat to go and this also expands so you can uh if you need to run your output you know further away from the unit itself uh you're able to do that so if you want to take a look on the inside you have these clips which you need need to take an open release it from the bottom and then this will lift [Music] off okay so one thing that I noticed right away is that this is not attached at all so uh this is not going to be an issue if this is going to be in a stationary location it's not going to be moved around or bounced around but if you're going to use this in a van you know or a camper That You Haul behind your vehicle that might be something that you want to take a look at maybe secure this to this plate here with some velcro or some carpet tape or something uh another thing that I noticed is that the uh the fuel line is attached like an inch from the bottom so even though this is a 5 L tank you're not going to get that bottom that looks like it's any could be up to a liter maybe 3/4 of a liter that you're not going to have access to because this is coming out the side rather than the bottom so I'm not crazy about that and uh this fuel line here comes into the pump and then then looks like yeah it goes into the bottom of the unit I do not see a filter anywhere so uh your diesel fuel is not getting filtered so those are the cons that I can see right away and those are all minor things they don't really bother me that much I can work around that so what I want to do is I want to get this back on uh we'll get it filled up with some Diesel and uh we'll give it a run but all right so if you look here on the bottom right next to the fuel input that's where your fresh air intake is and over here this is where your exhaust is so this is the elbow that you'll use um to connect up your exhaust pipe and that fits right there but it does not fit over this one this one's a little bit larger so you can't mess that up which is nice and uh in the bottom you've got a couple of outlets you've got a little indention there where this would come through and then you've got a hole over here in the side where you would route your uh fresh air intake so that way it keeps you from having both your exhaust and your intake in the same location cuz that would not be preferable so I would advise you to get some exhaust paste to put around here to uh help to seal that up and I would put it here and I would put it here and I would also put it where the uh the muffler attaches to the exhaust pipe all right if we take a look here where the uh tank comes out through the top um that does a pretty good job of keeping the tank in place maybe that's good enough I think I would still put uh some uh velcro or some carpet tape on the bottom though all right another thing I want to point out is you've got two slits right here which allow you to check how much uh diesel fuel you've got in your tank so uh that's kind of nice all right so the way I'm going to be using this at my cabin is I'm going to be running it off of a 12vt battery system so I've got this hooked up to my battery and then I'll plug this and in right here all right so I've got everything hooked up I've got my power okay now the system has toh self- Prime and uh that could take a few minutes so we'll come back as soon as that's primed and the heater starts working so uh that's kind of a nice feature I did not have to manually prime the pump all I had to do is turn it on and wait for the pump the pump to self-prime uh that's a really nice feature that would definitely warm up the cabin yeah so the uh amperage draw um from your uh battery system is really minimal the only thing that uh is running from your 12vt system is your display which Auto dims and your fan so it's not taking very many amps uh I think the average was about 1 and 1/2 amps 1 and 1/4 amps somewhere around there and uh that will not put any stress on my uh battery system at all let me use the remote turn this off now it's going to ramp down and the Fan's going to continue to blow even though the heater element is off and that'll cool it down so you don't want to unplug your electrical input because you want that fan fan to continue to run so I'm going to leave it hooked up there's also an H calorie app uh this supports Bluetooth so you can actually monitor it from your phone and uh right now I've got it set to turn on the fan and I can turn that off I can turn the heater on I can set my high Plateau if I if I need to and uh because right now I'm in Utah so my uh and I'm at 5,000 ft so I would need to have the high Plateau setting enabled so and I can turn the heating unit off and it what I like the fact that it always asks me if I want to confirm you know did I hit that by mistake or do I actually want to turn this on or off all right so let's see how much this draws uh when it's sitting idle not very much it's only it's drawing less than a tenth of an amp so very insignificant I tell you I really uh uh kind of impressed with this unit I know that uh we talked about a few shortcomings up in the beginning but uh those were minor issues I'm really going to enjoy using this at the cabin it puts out good heat and uh it's really easy to set up just hooking up a couple of uh input and output exhaust pipes and uh hooking up your to your electrical system whether it's 110 or 12vt so this is going to be an excellent uh heating solution for the cabin