3rd January 2012

I've been spending less time on Sabrina, now that she is afloat hence the lack of updates, but over the last couple of weeks I have managed to get the central heating installed, which I am quite pleased with.

I'll post some picture at a later date, plus various diagrams to show how I ended up doing it, plus a wiring diagram for the Webasto ThermoTop C which is the heart of the setup.

The Webasto heats the water in the calorfier (the second coil) then passes on to 10 fin rads, I plan to add a small heater matrix from a car (probably a fiat punto) with a PC fan behind it to blow hot air into the rear cabin. I'll also do the same with the waste heat from the engine so that we can have heat without firing up the Webasto.

The setup that I have means that I can use the waste heat from the engine to heat the water and also provide heat in the cabin when the weather is a little chilly or use the Webasto to provide hot water and/or heating via the fin rads.