As we said in an earlier post we gave up on our wood burning heater and ordered a new diesel burning heater. That was in July. It finally arrived on the 24th of November and Mark did most of the installation while he was recovering from Covid. He had to wait until he got the all clear sign from the health department before he could finish the installation as he needed some additional parts. So Sunday was the day that the heater was finally installed. We test fired it and all looked good for a short while until a large whoosh sound happened and the heater went into superheat. Luckily, one of the parts Mark was missing was an external valve and we quickly turned off the fuel supply and watched and waited nervously for the fuel to burn out. Both the chimney and burner turned red hot. We swear we could see through the metal! Eventually it stopped and cooled down. We talked with the technical department and found out what went wrong. So today we again tried out the heater and are happy to say it has been running all day with no issues. We have to run it a little lower than we thought to keep the surrounding area from getting too hot but heats the main salon up to 68 degrees on the lowest setting.
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