No worries, not so good with the rambling on video so just cut to the chase :)

Agreed

That comment made my day....lol

You’re not wrong!

There's a manual?

@@3genac ours came with a manual but it was converted from Chinese to English and very had to follow.

This would be extremely helpful if you could tell how to change the elevation in meters.

Thanks! Yeah I think it looks brighter in this video than it is in real life. I actually filmed it in my caravan which had a caravan cover on at the time so it was pretty dark in there. As you use the heater you'll get used to the controls and they are pretty easy to remember. If you have reception just come back and watch the vid until you get used to it.

I have everything written down and laminated on 4 a4 sheets of paper that stay in my van so i CANT FORGET lol..

Glad it helped, good to hear you got it going. They are great little heaters!

No problems! they are a good heater just most don't come with instructions.

Good luck! hope this will help!

I appreciate that! Thanks for wartching!

Wow, thanks!

Good stuff! glad it helped.

Thanks for watching. Glad it was helpful!

All good, thanks for watching!

Many thanks! Fantastic that people are watching from all around the world.

No problem 👍

I've only really tried the black (very common one) and this blue one. They are very similar in terms of feature and that is probably because they share the same controller board (inside the heater). Be careful though there are now knock off of the knock offs coming out with less features!

Cheers, Thanks for watching!

Glad it was helpful!

Thank you very much!

Glad you liked it!

Hi Denise, yes you are right, the way the timer is setup is not intuitive at all and makes it very annoying for doing reputative timers (like i imagine you will be doing). Also agree with you about the temperature... I actually don't think it chases the temperature and it simply changes the hz and runs the fan/pump slower for a lower temperature. The actual heaters work great, but the timers and controllers can be a bit annoying. There is an aftermarket solution called "Afterburner" which some people say is good - I haven't personally tried this but it apparently removes all these niggly issues we find with the controller.

@@berko79 yes I’ve heard of the Afterburner LCD also! I wanted to see how it runs tonight on the lowest hertz setting and what temperature it holds at for maybe a month to decide if I should purchase one. I tried the thermostat option a couple days ago and I found it shoots WAY over what I have it set at! The pump and heat kept coming before the heater finally dialled itself down! So frustrating when you want a set temperature for it to run at! Like +10-15* over shoot! Crazy! So glad I now have it in manual mode to turn on with the remote tonight! 👍🤞 Thanks for responding!

I've seen others could get it up on their remote but wasnt able to. Might depend which remote you have.

It's best to watch the lines and stop when you see the fuel get close to the heater

oh wow... maybe try pairing on the controller without the remote around? I dont know, I'll have a play next time i'm in the van and see if i can work it out.

The actual remote instructions might be slightly different. I think some of them have a few more features (like current ambient temperature on the remote). I dont believe the instructions for the actual hardwired controller would be different.

Hi Chris, some of them came with Manuals but they are almost completely useless. Badly translated and not covering anything which is why these videos become so popular.

There is not a whole lot feature wise. The black one does have issues with the screen fading as it stays on permanently. There are also inferior copies of the black one which is why id recommend the blue one. I am not sure if they are making featureless versions of the blue one. The easiest way to tell on the black one is the number of blades on the fan icon - the inferior one has 3 if i recall correctly.

Unfortunately it never switches itself fully off. I'm assuming this is to save the continual startup routine. It does slow itself (fan and pump) right down but if this is still too much on the minimum setting to stay under the requested temperature the area will heat up and be above the desired temp. In our Caravan/RV i've had to leave the windows open some nights to help regulate the temp as the unit cannot to it itself as the minimum is still too much.

@@berko79 Thank you for the thorough response! I also read somewhere else that turning the Hz or degrees down as low as possible helps some too. Looks like I'll be opening a window! Without the heater, my problem was being too cold, now it's being too warm! Oh well! I'm still very happy with my heater so far.

they keep ticking over so the heat does keep increasing slowly even though you have reached your required temp. Some people adjust the hertz to keep the pump supplying a minimal amount of fuel to help with the control of the temp.

Should work like this one i believe. Just make sure your new controller plugs into the same plug - it should be fine if it does. I've heard of some people having to change the board on the heater too.

just remembered we had a person comment on this video saying they had a red one which worked the same way :)

@@berko79 Yeah, it didn't work, got HFA mode fine, and "for pairing" fine, but no go. Been told on a group for CDH's that they're different comms to the default board.

Oh missed this one before your other comment. Yeah black smoke is probably because you primed a bit long. Don't think it's possible on these controllers to change them to imperial. I know some other types do

Yeah it can be a pain to get the prime to trigger.... you just have to keep trying and eventually the priming routine will start

Glad I could help, thanks for watching!

​@@berko79 have you come accross a no entry symbol on the blue controller, im really struggling here

@@alandall6630 I haven't personally but I remember someone commenting on one of my videos that it means it is set to 24v instead of 12v. You'll need to change it in the advanced set-up

wow, nice. I love hearing all the different uses for these heaters. I've always wondered how they would go heating up larger spaces. Great to hear you have had success.

@@berko79 ive done some calculations now after 3 days of running for 8 hours a day with the pump set at 1.7hz pump speed on a 2kw heater, in the latest cold snap we were using £12.00 a day on a British gas pre-pay meter with no debt on it. Now since we have been using the heater if I include a litre of diesel a day we are using £4.00 per day on gas and diesel for all day heating. £28 a week or over £80 a week on gas alone. I reckon these heaters could save lives this winter, such a pity no one who helps people in fuel poverty hasnt realised their real life potential, id even give up some spare time to fit them for people. weve even bought another one a 5kw for the caravan but it is heating outside air to maintain 20 degrees C it needs to run at 2.0Hz still much cheaper than running a 3kw electric covector heater or buying gas to run the heating in the caravan. have to start on 5Hz for about half an hour as the outside air is below freezing and it takes longer for the heat exchanger to get up to temperature. ive fitted 2 silencers to this one as it was quite noisey with just one alone. some of the kits seem to come with two silencers its well worth fitting both as it gets the exhaust noise down below 50db. it was 68db with just one silencer at 5.5Hz.

I believe its 10v. So it will likely ruin your battery before it turns off. On the other hand when running it uses very littler current so it might not be an issue. The initial startup uses quite a bit (10-15amps)

There is a PDF user manual for this over on facebook. You might need to join the group to access it (The Chinese Diesel Heater Community). Its not so easy to follow, which is why i made this vid. Anyway you can find it here: facebook.com/groups/419122475590648/permalink/833184530851105

@@berko79 wow! Tks :)

I dont believe so, even if you unplug the pump it will stop with an error. Something like the afterburner controller might be able to do it

Thanks for the comment/Sub. That's a good idea - i haven't even checked if the red remote works with the old controller. Let me give that a go and I'll get back to you.

I just tried this and it does not work. The old controller just sits on HFA and cannot connect. So to do this you will have to swap the remote and the controller. I've got a video on swapping both the controller and the remote... its pretty straight forward.

@@berko79 Hey friend. Sorry for the misunderstanding. That is kind of what I was meaning. Changing both remote and controller and be able to use the same ECU. I have the newer black ECU and I was wondering if I had to change all 3 or buy all 3 together incase one or the other would not work with the ECU that I have? I can see that the controller and remote works with your current ECU. Can you confirm if it is the newer black style circuit board as it would save me a little money not buying an ECU full kit. My controller has the low light problem so a new one is in order. Thank you kindly for taking the time to do this for me and us 👍💪💪 Sincere regards, Scott. ✌️🙏✌️

Hi Scott, Oh i see, I know there are a few versions of the black controller. I also know the one which has 3 fan blades on the LCD (instead of 5/6) might have issues with the swap. If yours is like my black controller (note the number of blades on the fan icon) which you can see here, i think you'll be ok to swap. kzfaq.info/get/bejne/pNOjlM9hzs23kYE.html

Yes you are doing it correctly. I've had a few people messaging with similar issues so i think maybe they are including incompatible remotes or something. I dont think anyone has had any success pairing them.

E10 is a fuel delivery error. I'd double check your lines have no leaks. Otherwise i'm not sure if your heater had the hard nylon fuel line or if it had the kind of soft hose. If its the soft stuff they are known to be pretty bad at not allowing the fuel to be delivered properly and it might be worth swapping to the harder line stuff. In regards to priming - some controllers do not come with priming functions and some that do are a real pain to get it to trigger. I sometimes have to push the 2 buttons ever so slightly apart (like the settings button gets pushed a millisecond before the right arrow).

Yeah you can manually turn it off. I just manually start and stop mine. Very rarely use the timer.

Oh yeah I should have included that in the video too. You just hold down the OK button to switch to English.

@@berko79 thanks so much!!

Awesome that’s why I came to my remote was in Chinese with no instructions for English thank you!

yeah this is one of the downsides of these heaters is it stays on. I simply unplug the screen after the shutdown procedure finishes. I know some other people put a switch on the power line

sometimes they take a few tries to get the prime to click on. I actually had to do multiple takes of the video to get it to prime. Have you tried a few times? Any error codes?

@@berko79 Hello again and thank you for your reply . I have tried priming it a couple of times and no errors. However, I did checked the voltage to the pump and it's around 4.9 volts,is this correct ? cheers .

@@howardross-gilder8331 i think they are low voltage so 4.9v sounds right. Can you hear the pump clicking? If so it might just be a airleak in your lines. I've heard of some people who have had dud pumps from new too

@@berko79 Hello again. I have tried priming the fuel pump multiple times without any joy and now I'm getting error E 07 coming up. Any more suggestions cheers.

Hmmm just looked up E07 and it seems its a wiring issue between the actual body of the heater and the controller. Might be worth checking wires or maybe they have sent the wrong controller to you?

Yeah I can go down to 1.2 when heating. Weird they are all set up differently.

Partially solved. The controller can't select limit values when Hertz span is too big for it. When I set 1,2 - 3,3 span, then can use whole range. When go higher to 4,4, selectable lower value is 1,7.

hmm that sounds really odd - maybe some of the buttons on your controller are not working properly? Im not across any other combinations or if there are maybe other variations of this blue controller which have less features so i'd suspect maybe your controller is faulty.

@@berko79 supposedly there are copis of copis of these controller. And i have the one wich doesnt have a back door seeting. Its what people say. All button works but the combo for going into khz and such doestnt

@@RimjobHimself oh right, i know the black controller has a copy with hardly any of the features. That one you can tell because it only has 3 fan blades on the fan icon on the screen. The worst bit about those ones is you cant just swap the controller you also need the board to be replaced in the heater.

@@berko79 aha, well its works so ill guess its ok. I can only reach 210 celcius but i thought it was gonna create more heat than it does. I can rin a 3300watts electric fan and that heats up the garage kinda fast but this is taking forever compared... Ill mount it closer to where i will work so ill guess it will be better with a better placement. Sucks yes.. and yeah it has 3 blades on the controller

Hey mate, I actually got under the van and watched the fuel get pushed through the clear line. Just quickly jumped back in and turned it off as it reached the heater.

@berko79 yes i figured it out don't same thing, mine is same display unit, but to prime mine its holding left and right arrows at same time, took ages to work out as instructions are rubbish..lol, cheers mate

hmm, thats a bit odd I use the priming mode quite often. Sometimes the priming mode is tricky to get into and by that i mean pressing the buttons at the same time sometimes is really difficult, and even for this video i had to do a few takes before i got it.

Yes, now there is an aftermarket controller for these heaters that completely kicks ass. It's called the After-burner, and it's made by a guy in Australia. It can control 20 something different parameters, including fuel/air ratio, Celsius /Fahrenheit, fuel remaining, etc, etc, etc. Retail is around $70.00 (I believe) but I'm told it's totally worth it.

This is something to do with altitude, not sure it actually does anything other than letting you know it has an idea of your altitude (although not very accurate)

AAA if your remote looks like this. If its the smaller flat one without the screen i believe its a A27

press and hold ok for about 10 secs. once you let go it should go back to english

Thanks back to english!!@@berko79

Did you try the remote - its possible they are already paired. As you can see in this video once they are paired you cannot bring up the HFA.

My model you cant. You can try pushing the two arrows together as I've seen something similar works for the red controller but as far as i know its not possible with this one.

I've got same problem. Did you find the solution? Thanks

No i never figured it out

Directly into the 3 pin plug which comes out of the heater.

My heater (motherboard) comes with 9 slot/7 pin square connector... not a good fit for the controller's 3 pin triangular plug. I suppose the 3 pin connector may be a part of the extension loom, but not in my case. I now ordered a set of motherboard, wired and remote controllers, maybe this setup will finally work. What a mess 🤦‍♂️

Can you confirm how many blades (light up on the screen) on the fan on the controller. I know they are now being produced with 3 blade icons. These controllers have limited functions (no timers and lots of the menus removed)

@@berko79 hi there mine has three blades.

@@richwhite8592 yeah unfortunately that's why you are seeing less features than mine. It won't do the timers or have the priming functions from memory.

@@berko79 I am able to prime it .

I'm actually not sure how you change the PIN. Have you tried 1688 and 9009?

@@berko79 Thanks. 1688 was the stock pin, but my friend changed it. It is the last option in the settings menu.

Yeah that's how my black controller works.... however this one seems to work as I explained in the video.... as in a countdown. You can see i set it to 00:01 and it started one minute after i set it. Thanks for the update on the SN-1/2 I had no idea on that one!

@@berko79 no problem but I pretty sure I saw 2 on and 2 off but it’s cool!

Not mine is count down timer doesn't work half the time even that way new black and new blue almost the same

Dont you just push any button to make it lighter? Or do you mean its gone dark permanently?

No it will just slow down... It never switches off unless you turn it off. It's a bit weird but maybe to save on too many start ups which use a lot of current?

@@berko79 cool thanks a lot. Very helpful

So it is believed that it is thermostat regulated, but does not stop blowing heat. Does it ever exceed the temperature it's set at?

Yes it can, they are not great at regulating temp. Also a good reason not to just buy the biggest one. In lots of smaller spaces a 2kw version is a better option.

Even the old style controllers didnt do that. It so crazy how they program them to work where most people want a timer with an on time and an off time. I think afterburner is an option but it costs as much as the heater. I'd still like to get my hands on one and have a look at what it has to offer.

Sure does, you can see me go through and check it in this video: kzfaq.info/get/bejne/itdhaa2d1Ni4cZ8.html at about 3 mins 40 secs

Yeah they are very cheap to buy and do produce a lot of heat. RV owners are into them but I'm actually surprised more of the off-grid/tiny house community aren't into them.

it might be paired already? have you confirmed its got a battery in the remote? Like it lights up ok I assume

Pretty sure this doesnt work on every controller but pushing the arrows together at the same time seems to change it to Fahreheit on some controllers. The ones I have do no support this and the only option is Celsius.

By turning it on you basically did the same thing as priming it but with the glow plug on. No issues at all. Your controller might look the same but there are some slightly different with the features. Anyway if it's working it should be all good 👍

@@berko79 Tks, you are right, finally found how to prime on mine by pushing both right and left (up and down) button.

Mine can't do F but i have seen some new ones can do it by pushing the down and up arrows together. So maybe try that?

@@berko79 I have the black remote, I tried that. That switches it from auto to manual....or reading temp in Hrz to ambient temp. I got the display switched (I have the blue one) no problem. Ugh. We tried for hours to figure it out.