cheapest air con ever!!

K-Serious · Post by **K-Serious** » Wed Jan 25, 2006 10:08 pm

http://www.sailgb.com/p/12v_heater_fan_with_handle/

Could this blow a fuse? unfortunately it doesnt say what the power is. Is there not a physics formula to work this out...forgotten it!!

This is to defrost the windows by the way...before piss ripping comes about warming up....

Mr Momo · Post by **Mr Momo** » Wed Jan 25, 2006 10:18 pm

Says 12A hence 144W - is the cigarette lighter not a 10A fuse in the Elise ?

gordon · Post by **gordon** » Wed Jan 25, 2006 10:22 pm

Leave home 5 min earlier and sit in the car and wait till it demists.

£12 saved. Dont say we're not good to you on here.

K-Serious · Post by **K-Serious** » Wed Jan 25, 2006 10:30 pm

the motor makes so much noise as well, but nowt comes out, so pathetic isnt it?!

come on guys we must be able to think of a clever heater mod.

thought about attaching a travel hairdryer under the dash to the outlet pipes, leav the setting on the control midway between feet and window and should allow warm air flow to window. would need to have normal fan on too though or half of it would just blow out the front of the car warming up the air passing over the radiator

gordon · Post by **gordon** » Wed Jan 25, 2006 10:38 pm

Might be worth checking the heater cables are adjusted properly and are moving the flaps on the heater box tthrough the full range of travel. Mine were bent when i got my car and it wouldn't blow hot air or direct to the windscreen. Now it's working its actually quite good. Dunno if the S2 runs cables or electric actuators? I doubt being Lotus they'd use actuators as they'd cost more than 1p to buy in.

Worth checking its all working as it should though.

Post by **simon** » Wed Jan 25, 2006 11:16 pm

Old S2 heaters are p!sh Gordon.

gordon · Post by **gordon** » Wed Jan 25, 2006 11:22 pm

Fair enough. The S1 heater is probably better so it can dry out the wet footwells.

Post by **simon** » Wed Jan 25, 2006 11:25 pm

Probably. Doesn't the S1 just heat the driver though? Or is that just early ones?

Mr Momo · Post by **Mr Momo** » Wed Jan 25, 2006 11:25 pm

There's an S2 and hairdryers thread in here somewhere, but I'm not going there.

Just stick the fan on and wait !

gordon · Post by **gordon** » Wed Jan 25, 2006 11:31 pm

I'm sure it just heats the drivers feet. But will send heat to all the dash vent too so the pax can turn them round to get a heat. But its good once its hot. I'd dry your eyeballs up when its on full blast

Gareth · Post by **Gareth** » Thu Jan 26, 2006 8:50 am

gordon wrote:Leave home 5 min earlier and sit in the car and wait till it demists.

£12 saved. Dont say we're not good to you on here.

5 minutes????
On a cold day try 15min!
Total gash!

mac · Post by **mac** » Thu Jan 26, 2006 9:25 am

Run a cable to an external socket and stick a wee electric fan type heater in the car.

Not only will it demist, but it will also warm the alloy giving the matrix heater a chance!

If your in a comunal car park then your screwed! Sorry.

Mac

Post by **simon** » Thu Jan 26, 2006 9:55 am

mac wrote:If your in a comunal car park then your screwed! Sorry.

Sanjøy · Post by **Sanjøy** » Thu Jan 26, 2006 11:13 am

mac wrote:Run a cable to an external socket and stick a wee electric fan type heater in the car.
Not only will it demist, but it will also warm the alloy giving the matrix heater a chance!
If your in a comunal car park then your screwed! Sorry.
Mac

If I had power in the undercroft I would have a shelf by the drivers door with a fan heater and a timer plug, 06:00-06:15 hot air blowing in to the open drivers window toasting the car.

Got to get back in to my non go faster mods. Heated seats, seat refurb and decents audio. If you that the NAF was pikey ... watch this space.

Post by **Shug** » Thu Jan 26, 2006 11:50 am

Geary's (Eliseparts) posted some interesting stuff on SELOC about future kit releases. One which has cropped up in the thread is a heated windscreen, which it sounds like he's seriously looking into.

That would be absolutely perfect....

On a slightly related note, have started using Rain X anti fog on the inside of the windscreen (having thoroughly cleaned it first) Seems to be a big improvement over normal. Worth noting also that a regularly cleaned (can't believe I'm saying this) inside of your windscreen will make the demist much less painful. It gets mucky *really* quickly (like in 3 days commute at this time of year), thanks to the vents blasting air directly from the intakes behind the low front grill. There's not a single filter anywhere between the two.