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Diesel block heater solar panel.
Unit is powered using only one solar panel.
The block heaters i used on car v8s were probably a lot more efficient than the 1 5kw external heaters that circulated the coolant.
The 500w in block needed more time which at some temp probably cancels their efficiency.
If it does exist the solar panel would have to be huge to provide the 650 1000 watts an electric block heater needs.
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Also it would have to be oversize because of the weaker solar rays in winter.
Consider the time you need the block heater.
There are no pumps fans or moving parts.
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The size shown can heat a small office in the dead of winter as long as the sun is shining or you can build smaller units to distribute around your house.
But the 1 5kw turned on an hour or so before start were enough to guarantee a start.
Over the course of a sunny day this system can heat a room at zero cost.
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Seriously though you d need a very large solar array to generate the 1 500 watts required to run a block heater.
It is usually during the night time.
I would think just use the solar panel to charge top off the batteries would be more then enough for 85 of the situations you run into.
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Ensure cold weather starts with engine block heaters.
Engine block heaters designed and tested for each individual engine application.
The biggest problem with a diesel in winter is just pure cranking power also with adding a trickle charge from the solar panel you will also slightly warm the batteries so they will perform better 2 fold.
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