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Old 09-23-2013, 10:49 PM   #25 (permalink)
Blue Angel
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Originally Posted by oil pan 4 View Post
See this on engine heaters:
Thanks! Some interesting info there. So my 1000W Zerostart should be plenty for my 138hp engine.

Neat project with the water tank heater element, BTW.

The reason I chose the 1000W heater size instead of the larger 1500W size was the power draw limit of a typical 120V 15A circuit. I don't have the luxury of 240V supply in my garage and I would like to run this heater along with the 200W OEM oil pan heater and maybe even a small adhesive pad heater on the bottom of the transmission. A regular wall plug can only give so much... I'd like to keep total power to 1500W if possible to keep from overloading the breaker.
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