Wallas Heating.

[Alistairr]

I've never heard of it, does anyone know what its like, is it the same principle as Webasto and Eberspacher??

Cheers

Alistair.

 

[sailorman]

Only to say i had one 20 yrs ago.
barge poles & touch spring to mind /forums/images/graemlins/mad.gif /forums/images/graemlins/mad.gif

get a webasto imho

 

[gibbowolfie]

Wallas is the standard supplier for hobs and cookers on several of the Scandinavian boats. There is a UK dealer network.

 

[sailorman]

It used to be Simpson-Lawrence in the good ole days

S & L had the Damn thing longer than me due to repairs /forums/images/graemlins/mad.gif

 

[Alistairr]

Yes, saw it listed on a Scandinavian boat, had never heard of it before.

Useful if there ,but not something to specify then.

Cheers all.

Al.

 

[Nautorius]

We have the wallas 95DU twin Diesel hob and heater. It is amazing. no hassle, no smell and very efficient. You can buy a convection hood to make it a safe heater, we just leave ours on and make sure no one touches it.

Ours is reliable, easy to clean and great! I would try and insist on one in any boat a got again,

Cheers

Paul /forums/images/graemlins/laugh.gif

 

[ColinHuggins]

Had a Wallas paraffin-fired hot air heater on my last. Miss it like mad - it was just purrrfect!

And it made Eberspacher sound like a noisy oompah band.

 

[John_d_Smith]

Had one for the last 4 years (the 4 Kw version), It's reliable and powerfull. I'd buy another

 

[spannerman]

Almost standard on boats here in Norway, fitted many to various yachts and cruisers including a D3000 to my Bayliner after the Ebercrapper packed up for the 2nd time, and also fitted the hob version in place of the meths cooker. Very quiet and reliable, you can get them with fancy electronic timer and thermosat panels too. And piece of cake to repair, you just carry a spare 'Glow element' and you can change it in 15 mins with basic tools, thats about all that goes wrong with them, and very cheap to run.

 

[spannerman]

Thats cos they didn't understand how it worked, its far simpler than a Webasto or Eber, and you don't need any special equipment to fix them.

 

[Alistairr]

Thanks all, saw it listed as part of and Aquador i saw on the web, had never heard of it, is it run by diesel, even on a petrol boat?

Cheers all.

Al.

 

[Nautorius]

Hi Al,

Looks like some are parafin as well. Here is a UK Dealer site!

Wallas

Cheers

Paul /forums/images/graemlins/laugh.gif

 

[sailorman]

you do if the PCB continually [--word removed--]-up /forums/images/graemlins/mad.gif /forums/images/graemlins/mad.gif /forums/images/graemlins/mad.gif

 

[[3889]]

Just taken mine out with a duff PCB, not as good as my Eber on last boat.

 

[sailorman]

mine had more PCBs then gallons of paraffin /forums/images/graemlins/mad.gif /forums/images/graemlins/mad.gif

 

[colinroybarrett]

We had one thirty years ago, which looks very similar to the 1300-3200 series on the Kuranda website.

It worked by pumping fuel through a burner ring, with a soggy wick, in a vertical airstream. This was ignited by the glow-spiral. Unlike the Eberspächer which sprays neat fuel into a horizontal airstream in the burner-chamber.

We ran our paraffin version on anything we could; diesel, C/Heating oil etc. It was very happy, providing the battery volts were high enough to get the ignitor glowing well.

In those days there were no complex PC-boards to worry about, and it lasted several winters until we sold the boat, mostly trouble-free apart from the glow-spiral which would burn out from time to time (probably the junk fuel we used).

It had a ‘clicking’ fuel pump though, which needed careful positioning and insulating well sound-wise if you wanted a good nights sleep.

CRB

 

[Solitaire]

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Thanks all, saw it listed as part of and Aquador

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I was running a course on an Aquador 26 (2 year old boat) this week. It had one, the owners never got it to boil a kettle! I think partly because they didn't know how to use it.