Car heaters "Planar" are an excellent option when additional heating of the car is required. To achieve the desired effect, the autonomy must be correctly installed and undergo maintenance in a timely manner. The cost of such a design is from 19.5 thousand rubles.
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When transporting goods and working with special equipment, emergency situations often arise in the winter, when it is necessary to heat the cab, trailer or especially important structural units. An excellent solution for such cases can be the Planar 4D autonomous heater, which is able to effectively provide heat to such objects.
The photo shows Planar products.
These products are manufactured by LLC "Advers" in Samara. Since 1995, the organization has been selling climatic equipment that is in demand in the markets of our country, so the main advantage is the high quality of the goods.
Other positive qualities of the devices can be found below:
Such devices are able to function reliably at ambient temperatures up to -45 degrees.Compact dimensions provide the ability to transport the product without unnecessary difficulties.Operation is simplified thanks to the remote control, which allows you to turn the device on and off, as well as to select the operating mode.There are certificates for the manufactured products confirming safety and compliance with standards.Heating devices are resource efficient , thanks to which a long period of use is possible.Installation of the heater can be done by hand , and this leads to cost savings.Affordable price allows you to purchase products , regardless of the financial capabilities of the consumer.
The diagram shows the structure of the device.
Addition!
Connecting the heater is not a super complicated matter, so it can be done on your own. When attracting specialists, you will have to spend a lot. (See also the article Air heating systems: features.)
If the instructions below are fully followed, then there should be no problems during the installation process.
The process of connecting the main wires is shown.
First, the installation site is selected, after which a preliminary marking is applied to the surface of the frame.
It is mandatory to protect the device from various contaminants and moisture intrusion.
The installation of the device is carried out directly, while the angles of inclination must be observed.
The product is provided with stability through the use of additional spacers and washers.
The heating line is connected to the vehicle's fuel system.
A system is installed that is necessary for taking air from the street and releasing exhaust gases.
At the last stage, testing and final setting of parameters are carried out.
The device is fully installed in the cab.
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The main parameters, which are given below, are relevant for the most popular model 4DM 24. When specifying them, an error of no more than ten percent in one direction or another is allowed. All characteristics were obtained at nominal voltage and temperature conditions of +20 degrees. (See also How to build a heated greenhouse: features.)
In the process of using this device for autonomous heating, certain rules must be followed in order to increase the life of the product and achieve a high level of safety. The following are the most important points to consider during operation.
The heater may only be used for the purposes described in this operating manual.
Do not use the device in places where vapors that can easily ignite are collected in large quantities.
Do not use the device while the car is in an enclosed space, as combustion products will accumulate.
Do not disconnect and connect the connectors when the power supply to the product is on.
After the heater is turned off, restarting can be done only after 5-10 seconds.
When refueling a vehicle, the device must be turned off.
Do not disconnect the mains power supply until the purge phase is complete.
The heater can be installed in the van.
Attention!
In any case, it is necessary to start and shutdown the system, change the temperature regime and determine the state of the device. There is a special control panel for this. On the front of the device is a small LED knob.
Thanks to the small light bulb, the status of the appliance can be determined. If its color is red, then the heating or ventilation mode is on. A flashing LED indicates a malfunction. When the heater is turned off, the lamp does not light up at all.
The handle on the body is required to execute various commands. If it is on the left, then the device is completely turned off. You can start by turning the knob clockwise. Depending on the position of the handle, the system will operate in a certain power range.
This is how the PU-10 control panel looks like.
If flame interruption is noted, the fuel supply and air intake system should be checked.
If the connection between the main unit and the control panel is broken, you need to test the wires for a short circuit.
Extended ventilation times usually occur when the air supply system is poorly functioning.
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In case of overheating in the area of the control unit, inspect the air inlet and outlet pipes.
Thanks to the information presented above, potential consumers can understand what the Planar autonomous heaters, which are highly popular in our country, are. This topic will be primarily of interest to those drivers who spend a long time behind the wheel. As for additional information about heating devices of this type, they are reflected in the video.
The "Planar" autonomy is an air heater developed by Russian specialists, which is manufactured in Samara. The range of these car heaters consists of four devices (Planar 2D, Planar 4DM2, Planar 44D, Planar 8DM), each of which is available in two versions - 12 and 24 Volts. Even in severe frosts, such an installation can provide an optimal air temperature in the vehicle interior. First, we will briefly consider the device and the principle of operation of the heater, and then we will study all the Planar errors (fault codes) and their decoding.
Autonomous heaters "Planar" are equipped with a power regulator and a timer. The installation can work autonomously at all stages. The electronics starts the ignition only if the various components are in good working order and the required conditions are met. Therefore, you should not worry about the safety of using the device.
The main components of the "Planar" autonomous system:
block with control panel;
a heating element;
fuel pump.
Heaters from this manufacturer operate on the principle of supplying outside air to the heating compartment. During the combustion of fuel, energy is released that heats this air. Only then is hot air supplied to the vehicle interior.
To select the optimal power, a special regulator is used with the ability to be fixed in a given position. After the user selects the optimal operating mode, the heater will independently maintain the set temperature.
The basic principle of the "Planar" autonomous system:
Purging the combustion chamber.
Heating up the glow plugs to the required temperature.
Supply of the optimum air / fuel ratio to the working chamber.
Combustion of the air-fuel mixture.
Switching off the candle after stabilization of the temperature mode selected by the user.
We decided to publish the Planar autonomous system malfunction codes in the form of four tables. A specific heater model is indicated in front of each of them, which will help you understand what the problem is in your case.
Before doing self-repair, I recommend assessing the situation as a whole. I mean, I will get acquainted with the accompanying documentation for the heaters, which I have collected for you in one place, I think it will be quite sufficient, and also in our descriptions of the problems that have arisen with your heater, we will try to repair it. The success of this repair is of course now in your hands. But first, assess the situation calmly and reasonably, it takes time, and time is money. At my discretion, everyone should do what he can do well, and receive moral and material satisfaction from this.
Do you have a HEATER of the passenger compartment, or a prestarting liquid heater?
To be honest, there is not much difference in their principle of operation. Some heat the air and accelerate through the cabin creating coziness and comfort, others heat the antifreeze and drive it through the engine cooling system, heating it, allowing it to facilitate starting in winter with the ability to warm up the interior.
The difference in them is only in the efficiency of energy consumption, electrical and fuel.
Heaters are designed for economical operation and for a relatively long time, here and the thermal power is smaller and the pump and fan for consumers. The prestart has a different main task - it is to warm up the engine as quickly as possible before starting, but of course not at any cost. What's the point of having a hot engine with a discharged battery. But the order of electricity consumption is hundreds of times less than turning a cold engine with a starter.
Table troubleshooting for the autonomous heater planar 4dm and 44d
Waiting for many hours in a car in a traffic jam or, worse, spending the night in an open field in the cold, inevitably leads to the thought that an autonomous interior heater is by no means a whim of a hunter-fisherman or an attribute of a professional driver's RV.
In cold or slightly frosty weather, every hour we warm up the engine to a more or less comfortable temperature of 60-70 degrees. At -20 ° C, you have to warm up every 35-40 minutes at medium speed so that the battery does not die. If an additional electric pump was installed on the stove, we use the warmed-up motor as an autonomous heat source. Depending on the level of interior insulation and air temperature, the engine cools down in 2-3 hours, the car interior - twice as fast.
After 6 hours of waiting, there is a risk of being left with an empty tank and a discharged battery. In search of protection from the impending cold, the driver is ready to buy or make an autonomous interior heater with his own hands. The situation encourages thinking about the advantages of an additional autonomous heater for the car's interior better than any advertisement.
It should be admitted that the standard equipment and equipment of the car do not dispose to long-term parking in the cold. When buying a car, few people want to spend money on additional equipment of the car with a potentially unnecessary unit. But reality makes its own adjustments. The standard version of heating the passenger compartment is good only on the move. The operation of the car engine as a heater for the passenger compartment is ineffective, 95% of the heat escapes into the pipe.
Modern designs of an auxiliary heater for heating use the following options:
the heat of the air streams flowing around the hot heat exchanger heated by the flame of the internal burner device, this option is called an autonomous air heater for the passenger compartment;
the classic version is the heating of the air by the surface of the heat exchanger, through which an additional amount of the coolant heated to a relatively low temperature is pumped through by a pump;
heating with an electric coil made of metal alloy, ceramic element or special metallized carbon fiber fabric.
Leader in the selection of professional drivers. The cost of purchasing and installing an autonomous air heater is about half the cost of fuel used to warm up the passenger compartment during a year of operation of the tractor.
The device and design of an air autonomous interior heater are, in general terms, akin to a primitive starting heater. Unlike the latter, the autonomous heater uses air for heating and is installed directly in the cab or the car interior.
The heat generated by the combustion of a small amount of fuel in the combustion chamber is transferred through an aluminum heat exchanger to the air flow, which is forced into the passenger compartment by a low-noise fan. Combustion products are discharged through a metal heat-resistant hose outside the cabin. The fuel is stored in a tank located, as a rule, on the rear wall of the tractor cab. A control panel and an air intake regulator are installed in the cabin. On average, an autonomous device consumes 200 ml of fuel per hour with a battery load of 40-50W. Thermal power ranges from 2 to 7 kW / h.
Modern mainline trucks and heavy construction equipment are equipped with a 24-volt diesel autonomous interior heater, which is associated with the peculiarity of the fuel used and the voltage of the on-board network. In American tractors, the power supply voltage of passenger vehicles is used, therefore, an autonomous heater for the passenger compartment of diesel power supply of 12 volts is installed.
The most authoritative and respected are diesel autonomous heaters of the passenger compartment Airtronic (Eberspacher) and Air Top ST (Webasto). German quality, trouble-free operation and convenient operation correspond to high prices for products. Among the advantages of branded autonomous heaters:
high build quality;
availability of programmable operating modes;
the ability to launch at a distance of more than 1000 m from the car.
Among the Russian models, it is worth mentioning the own development of the Samara company "Teplostar" - an autonomous heater for the interior of the Planar. At a low cost, it is distinguished by its unpretentiousness and reliability. It uses diesel fuel and is manually operated from the remote control in the car interior. The "Planar -4D" heater model, consuming 0.12-0.4 liters of diesel per hour, is capable of heating the interior of a bus with 30 seats.
It should be noted that diesel and gasoline autonomous interior heaters have a serious competitor - a gas heater for a car's interior, which uses natural gas or propane-butane as fuel. It is worth noting the autonomous cabin heating devices of the German developer - the Trumatic company, whose products are different:
the quietest, virtually silent operating mode,
high efficiency - 97%;
complete absence of the smell of combustion products typical for diesel fuel.
Gasoline autonomous heaters are mainly used in low temperatures and severe frosts in the northern climatic zone.
With the outward simplicity of the heating principle, an air autonomous heater can hardly be considered as an additional heater for the passenger compartment, available for do-it-yourself manufacture. In the conditions of homemade production, it is almost very difficult to fulfill the requirements:
to the quality of welding of elements, taking into account the specifics of the heat load and deformation of the mating elements;
to the reliability of control systems required for the operation of an autonomous heater;
to prevent deviations from the preset combustion mode, the formation of a large amount of carbon monoxide, burnout of the chamber walls and, as a result, mixing of combustion products and heated air;
to ensure control of the start-up procedure without the risk of fire.
The classic version of the autonomous heater is a scheme when two circuits are simultaneously assembled in the heating device - an engine antifreeze heating circuit and a heat exchanger for the coolant sent to the cab heating system.
There are variants of an autonomous heating system with minor modifications that have a connected insulated tank or a hot water tank in the interior heating system. Such a boiler plays the role of both a heat accumulator and a hot water source. An additional pump pumps and heats the tank operating in boiler mode. Such an autonomous heater is most often used for mobile living quarters - mobile homes.
An electric autonomous heater, colloquially referred to as a "hair dryer", is used to quickly warm up the passenger compartment at low air temperatures. If your car has a battery with a capacity of at least 75 Ah, use an electric heater for the interior of the car, which is structurally a 12-volt analogue of a hair dryer, with the difference that instead of 220 V home power, a voltage of 12 V battery and generator is used. car. African heat in the cabin should not be expected, but during the warming up of the car's stove to the desired 70-80 ° C, such a car interior heater, powered by a cigarette lighter, is indispensable if you urgently need to warm up the lock or remove frost from frozen glass.
low thermal power and heating rate;
the need for a "healthy" and fully charged storage battery and a working generator.
the heating element of the "hair dryer" heats up to a high temperature and partially burns the oxygen in the air in the cabin.
Handling the heater requires care to prevent the possible ingress of flammable substances on the heating element.
An autonomous electric heater for a car interior is easiest to make with your own hands using an electric fan powered by a cigarette lighter.
The most common and affordable heater design is a circuit consisting of a 12-volt fan-cooler used in power supplies and cooling systems for computers and a heating panel. The latter is made in the form of a frame or tube from a non-combustible and dielectric material. Elements of covers and cases of powerful electric starters made of PCB or fiberglass are suitable.
Alternatively, for use as a heating element of an autonomous heater, a nichrome spiral stretched on special mounting ceramic chips can be used. In this case, the panel can be made of any heat-resistant material.
Our additional heater of the passenger compartment is powered by a cigarette lighter and a voltage of 12 V, therefore, we use a low-resistance nichrome wire in the design:
measure with a tester the resistance of 1 m of wire;
to obtain a maximum current of 5 A, we cut off the length of nichrome with a resistance of 2 ohms and make a spiral by winding the wire onto a rod or pencil;
stretch the resulting spiral a little so that the distance between the turns of the spiral is at least 2-3 wire thicknesses;
Based on the obtained length of the spiral, we will select the dimensions of the heating panel such that there are at least 4-5 rows of the heating element in the cross-section of the frame.
fix the spiral on the mounting frame, install the fan and connect a two-core cord with a wire cross-section of at least 1.5 mm 2 to the output contacts.
After assembling the structure of an autonomous electric heater, we test it by connecting it to the battery terminals for a short time. If the installation is done correctly, the heater coil should not warm up to the "red" state, the direction of air flow supplied by the fan should correspond to the calculated one.Otherwise, it is necessary to change the polarity of the connection and take into account when connecting the plug to the cigarette lighter.
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