Farmer Piles
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Those are my fields and farm buildings in the background.A winter sail. A still from a Dylan Winter video Jan 2018 when he overwintered in Mylor. Must make the effort again. View attachment 146448
Those are my fields and farm buildings in the background.A winter sail. A still from a Dylan Winter video Jan 2018 when he overwintered in Mylor. Must make the effort again. View attachment 146448
You MYC member?Those are my fields and farm buildings in the background.
No, we joined for a year ages ago but rarely went there. Our boat lives down the hill from the house at Weir and we can walk to either the Pandora Inn or to the Lemon Arms in the village. Occasionally paddle or row to Mylor but not often enough to warrant joining MYC. I know quite a few who are members.You MYC member?
No but a few Heard 28s about. Very large teak deck area on Aeolus. Could have been a friend’s home finished Crabber 30.PS
Was it you moored on the end of the Pandora pontoon one high tide this summer? If not then a boat very similar to yours and I engaged the owner as I admired the lines of the teak decking.
Old post I know but did you ever install the Bobil water heater? Interested in how good they are...Chinaspacerbasto installed and working a treat , new 20ltr calorifier fitted , new waterpump fitted (still left in the good old foot pump). Yet to wire in . Awaiting delivery of the bobil water heater ( designed to fit on the outlet of the Chinplannerbastos0acher. ) . I confess i am not expecting miracles from this kit we will see.!!
Thanks for the info. Interesting...Hi CL
Yes , I originally installed it temporarily sat on top of my temporarily installed Chinaspacer, see attached picture. Very straightforward to fit . You choose between water or warm air via the changeover flap. Surprising how little heat exits the bobil exchanger, so its obviously transfering well
It came with a control with two temperature sensors, these weren't required for my installation. I just wanted a simpl on off switch. I will get around to making a more permanent instalation eventually.
Works a treat , around 30 min gives piping hot water. Just got to remember to turn on the supplied 12v circulation pump . I forgot once and popped a heater pipe . Just a rubber tube exiting the heater.
If you have fresh water cooled engine , I would choose this route over the Bobil. My Bukh is raw water cooled and not sufficiently warm enough to heat the calorifier to a bug free environment temp. Very good at providing hot water ar anchor.
Ah I see! I was confused about whether to use it direct or plumb through the coil... So it just circulates it and heats it as it goes round... Makes sense.The Bobil isn't plumbed into the coil ( the circuit your engine is plumbed to).
Its tee's into the pipework as in attached diagram. The one way valves shown are all in the kit . You only get circa 1mtr of 10mm id. Rubber pipe in the kit, so I fitted 15mm push fit as I needed around 3 mtr. Also gives a much better flow rate . If you follow the diagram you can see the cold feed from your existing tank / freshwater pump pushes through the heat exchanger (Bobil ) then into calorifier ( cold in tapp )then out to hot feed . So technically its a direct exchange as opposed to indirect ( via coil from engine) . To put it simpler the water inside the Bobil eventually exits your tap.
If it was indirect ( via coil ) it would simply boil inside the Bobil as it couldn't transfer heat to the contained domestic water fast enough.
Hope this makes sense.
hi WC,Hi CL
Yes , I originally installed it temporarily sat on top of my temporarily installed Chinaspacer, see attached picture. Very straightforward to fit . You choose between water or warm air via the changeover flap. Surprising how little heat exits the bobil exchanger, so its obviously transfering well
It came with a control with two temperature sensors, these weren't required for my installation. I just wanted a simpl on off switch. I will get around to making a more permanent instalation eventually.
Works a treat , around 30 min gives piping hot water. Just got to remember to turn on the supplied 12v circulation pump . I forgot once and popped a heater pipe . Just a rubber tube exiting the heater.
If you have fresh water cooled engine , I would choose this route over the Bobil. My Bukh is raw water cooled and not sufficiently warm enough to heat the calorifier to a bug free environment temp. Very good at providing hot water ar anchor.
No issues at all . I did increase the pipe diameter from the Bobil unit to the calorifier. They only supplied a short length of flexible tubing , (10 mm iirc ) for 15mm push fit. Also swapped out a couple of their plastic fittings for the increased diameter pipe.hi WC,
I've ordered all the bits now, but noticed that the max pressure for system is 20 psi, while my Jabsco Parmax 3 pump is 25 psi cut off. I've ordered a pressure switch from Bobil but didn't really want to drop the water pressure. Have you had any similar issues?
cheers,
Toby
Yes a Jabsco parmax 3 at 25psi cut out. Quite a price increase since last year .thanks - yeah, I'm to use 15mm as well.
What pressure does your main pump run at? Is it a Jabsco too?
looking forward to hot water!