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Old 12-15-2015, 02:31 PM   #37 (permalink)
dremd
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Some thoughts:
Assuming that the heater is resistance and heats water, how about a Webasto coolant heater fuled by Bio Diesel? The 2KW runs 22 hours on 1 gallon of Diesel.

You could rip apart a junk yard seat and get a heating element out. Probably not as efficient as the blanket, but neater.
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