What is Alde Heating like now,i remember back in say 1993 Brother in-law had a Buccaneer with Alde and he was saying how brilliant it was until the rubber pipe blew apart and spent the rest of the day mopping up the water,because we have bought a van with Alde and the memorys started flooding back excuse, the pun
Many Thanks Kevin
It is an excellent heating system as evidenced its almost unique selection on quality caravans, motorhomes and leisure boats.
It does not provide a localised warm spot to sit in whilst the van as a whole warms up so getting warm takes longer but the result is a stabalised warmth throughout the van.
It requires 12 volts to provide any heating so off EHU there is a continuous drain whilst it is on.
There is no reason for a pipe joint to blow off as the system does not operate under pressure, so one coming off is due to lack of care both in build and subsequent service. Clearly it is full of glycol mix and this is not something easy to cope with if allowed to leak out.
Even the basic system on modern vans comes with a timer controller so daytime and night time settings can be set and come on automatically. Some individual seem to struggle with coping with setting this controller up; I have not found it a challenge.
As both an air blower fan and a circulation pump are used it is not completely silent; poor instalation can accentuate these noises.
As well is two words!
How does a sage know everything about everything? or does he? or does he just think he does?
Remember, if you buy something you bought it, not brought it.
You can download the manuals from this Alde Uk website:
http://www.alde.co.uk/manuals.php
Your interest will be in the 3010 Compact and its Digital controller, I assume 3010-213; the latter it is worth investing a careful study of to get to understand the settings for day and night use.
What is the point of this system? All you are heating is a box the size of a bedroom. Is it a caseof the Emperor's New Clothes? As long as I have something new it is brilliant!!
The radiator units are behind/below the seats. This means the hottest part of the van is behind/below the seats. Put your hand there and you''ll notice just how hot it gets.
Off to the Lakes this weekend hope the sun comes out so we don't have to use the heating! Hope the Langdale run goes well.
Thanks for all the replys very helpful, i was wondering if Alde had moved away from using the rubber pipes and have gone for a more substantal material to carry water / antifreeze around the van Many
Quote: Originally posted by conqueror26 on 10/4/2013
Thanks for all the replys very helpful, i was wondering if Alde had moved away from using the rubber pipes and have gone for a more substantal material to carry water / antifreeze around the van Many
Thanks Kevin
Thankfully they have retained the "rubber", well elastomer, couplings just as cars do to achieve flexibility; we are talking about systems for use on roads not nice ridgid "G" stable structures like houses so some flexing is inevitable.
As I said earlier these joints as in your car are fit for purpose unless initially not assembled correctly or abused during service. Most of the piping is in aluminium tube.
I was speaking to the chap round the corner who runs rallies for C&CC in France/Spain. He was telling me that now that foreign sites have started metering electricity for longer stays (two weeks and up) that some of his rallyers got a shock when they got the electricity bill at the end of the rally.
It would seem that the main culptrit was the Alde heating and the Fridge/Freezer which when driven from the EHU draw a fair amount of current and consequently consume more power than users expected hence the larger than anticipated bills.
Quote: Originally posted by david8858 on 11/4/2013
I was speaking to the chap round the corner who runs rallies for C&CC in France/Spain. He was telling me that now that foreign sites have started metering electricity for longer stays (two weeks and up) that some of his rallyers got a shock when they got the electricity bill at the end of the rally.
It would seem that the main culptrit was the Alde heating and the Fridge/Freezer which when driven from the EHU draw a fair amount of current and consequently consume more power than users expected hence the larger than anticipated bills.
Dave
Must be mighty COLD out there in France and Spain!
Our Alde heating seems to spend a lot of its time turned off by the thermostat once the 'van has warmed up, and on its auto night setting it hardly kicks in at all.
Don't think our fridge/freezer was burning much juice on this last trip as it was only just above freezing outside.
We have ALDE heating in our caravan and I can honestly say that we are not exactly impressed with it as on a very cold day, it can take several hours to warm up the caravan properly. Over Easter it struggled to get up to 21C. The troublesome blown air Truma warmed the caravan more effectively! We are now looking at investing in buying some under carpet heating! As per the OP, they use metal pipes with rubber joins!
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Topic: Alde Heating
