24v/12v Landrover 110 CSW (long!)

puffernutter · 2005-11-28T09:25:26+00:00

I have an interesting problem (all of my own making!)To give a bit of background. In this weather my defender 110 CSW (19Jengine) struggles to heat the cabin. When travelling down a motorwayit just about keeps up, when down on the A and minor roads, you justget colder and colder! In a few months time I will also be having dogssleeping in the back of the car through the night, so I wanted a way ofkeeping the car warm separate (or additional to) the engine.Prior to the recent thread I had been exploring diesel heaters and theyseemed an ideal solution. The problem was that at this time of yearthe 12v versions were going for quite a premium. So I bought a 24vversion from eBay. (Just waiting for it to arrive).This was bought deliberately (it was about =A3140 cheaper than theequivalent 12v version!) and I now need to see how to provide the 24vin the car for the diesel heater (in fact, providing it is easy, that'sjust a second battery, keeping that second battery charged is the moreinteresting problem!)I think there are three options and there are pros and cons to all. Iwould appreciate your views on the various options and whether any ofyou have a similar problem and how you have solved it.Firstly the battery drain is not huge. Start up is the worst at 11.25A(due to heating the glowplug I suspect), the ongoing power for the fanthen drives the consumption which is quoted at 1.25A for boost and only0=2E4A when running at low/medium power. This is of course at 24v.So options:Option 1 -Weekly charge of second battery. Probably the simplest option and justneeds to be a good habit to get into. Remove the second battery once aweek and charge it overnight. With the drains quoted above, evenleaving the heater on all night shouldn't have a major drain on thatbattery. The downside is the hassle of removing the battery once aweek. (This could be done through an isolation switch and an externalsocket and may be the way that I go)Option 2 -Fit a 24v alternator (is one done...

Nov 28, 2005 24 Replies

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SimonJ 20 years ago

Just out of interest, how much did you pay for it? The ones I've seen on Ebay went for around £300-350, and you can buy them new for not much more than £400.

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puffernutter 20 years ago

I paid =A3235 for a D1LC. This one inlcudes a thermostat and timer. If the car gets sufficiently warm the unit will switch off "totally" and restart when the temperature drops below the set limit.

I was happy with that price.

There is a 12v version on eBay at the moment for =A3320 (11 hours to run).

The cheapest (new one) and that is a lower heat rating, is around =A3700 pounds this was at

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who also seems to do afull range of spare parts (but I have no experience of them - yet!) Cheers

Peter

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Lee_D 20 years ago

Tom Woods uttered summat worrerz funny about:

Get your grinder out and fit 90 seals... well worth it!

Lee D

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Tom Woods 20 years ago

I dont mind the grinding but those seals are expensive :(

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Austin Shackles 20 years ago

On or around Sat, 03 Dec 2005 18:08:59 +0000, Tom Woods enlightened us thusly:

fitted spare door seal from scrap ford sierra to the series III. Grinder, like they said, with a thin cutting disc. The edge of the door frame looks like this: _ | | |

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