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SYSTEM SUMMARY

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Prices shown are for 120v. Add 25% for 220V

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Standard System XP System HotStrip Oil Sump System

4 Cylinder Engines

$575

$795

$240

6 Cylinder Engines

$775

$995

$240

Watts per cylinder

Watts on oil sump

50w

100w

100w

200w

None

200w

Cylinder Temp Rise*

Oil Temp Rise*

81F

88F

119F

128F

37F

80F

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* Temps are RISE ABOVE AMBIENT after 12 hrs, on our Cherokee 235 with Lyc 0-540. Aircraft was in our unheated hanger, the air inlets were plugged with foam rubber cowl plugs, the cowling was covered with a blanket which laid over the top and hung about halfway down the sides, and the sump had 9 qts of oil. The temperatures were obtained by a calibrated digital thermometer with a remote probe inserted between the top two fins on the center left cylinder, and a second probe dropped down the oil filler tube with the tip suspended at the 4.5 qt level.

 

 

 

HEATING TIME (F) 

Actual temps (not rise above ambient). Test method and conditions as stated below.

 

XP System

100w per cyl

200w on oil

  Standard   System

  50w per cyl

100w on oil

HotStrip  Oil Sump System

200w on oil

ELAPSED HOURS CYLINDERS

OIL

CYLINDERS OIL CYLINDERS OIL
0 20 20 20 20 20 20
1 41 66 35 52 26 66
2 60 84 46 63 33 80
3 77 100 57 73 37 87
5 105 123 74 87 46 96
12 147 156 103 110 60 104

 

Actual temps on our Cherokee 235 with Lyc 0-540. Aircraft was in our unheated hanger, the air inlets were plugged with foam rubber cowl plugs, the cowling was covered with a blanket which laid over the top and hung about halfway down the sides, and the sump had 9 qts of oil. The temperatures were obtained by a calibrated digital thermometer with a remote probe inserted between the top two fins on the center left cylinder, and a second probe dropped down the oil filler tube with the tip suspended at the 4.5 qt level.

 


 

Standard System

50 watt band heaters clamp around the cylinders and a 100 watt aluminum HotStrip element epoxies to the oil sump (epoxy included).

Heats your engine about 80F above ambient overnight.

Oil Cooler Heater Option

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XP System

XP means "Xtra Performance". This is our best system, doubles the wattage of the Standard System for faster heating and colder climates.

100 watts per cylinder + 200 watts on the oil sump.

Heats your engine about 120F above ambient overnight.

Thermostat limits oil to 190F

Oil Cooler Heater Option

APPLICATIONS LIST & ORDERING INFO

 

HotStrip Oil Sump Heater System

Two 100 watt aluminum heaters epoxy to the oil sump. (Epoxy included)  

Thermostat limits oil to 190F

Oil Cooler Heater Option

APPLICATIONS LIST & ORDERING INFO

NOTE - the aluminum HotStrip elements must be installed on a flat surface. For small Continental engines with the oval oil sump (kidney tank), see here Oval Oil Sump Heaters

See here for more details about HotBand cylinder heaters and HotStrip oil heaters

 

Our band heater clamps around the cylinder, and does not replace any bolts.   The other brand heats the head with a bolt heater replacing either a rocker cover screw or intake manifold bolt
 

What about the other brand's claim that heating the head is best?

 

A big advantage of our system is that it is non-invasive

All our parts are installed "on" the engine.  Nothing is installed inside the engine, and you do not need to remove any OEM parts or replace any OEM parts with our parts.  For example, our competitor's system replaces the OEM intake manifold bolts or rocker cover bolts with their own heated bolts.  These are simply hollowed out bolts with heating elements epoxied into the hollowed out shank. The intake manifold is held to the cylinder head with only two bolts. If a hollow bolt heater breaks, that side of the intake manifold would come loose and extra air would be sucked into that cylinder, which would lean the mixture and possibly cause engine damage and a power loss. As a general design philosophy we feel it is safer not to replace parts that were installed by the engine manufacturer, especially structural parts like bolts.

 

 

This is what the system looks like on a Lycoming 360.  Note the band heaters around the cylinders, plugged into the harness which is clamped to the top center of the crankcase.  The AC plug can be mounted wherever you like but on this engine it is clamped by the front right cylinder so the extension cord can be plugged in through the air inlet.


 

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