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Originally Posted by The Atomic Ass
One wouldn't want to leave a block heater on for long periods anyway. Or a cabin heater, for that matter. Fire hazard and all. We're talking about the kind of setup where it's either on a timer, or plugged in by hand in the morning.
As for energy, I've heard of block heaters as heavy duty as 1,000w, which would naturally use 1kwh for each hour of operation. If I could start my Burgman at full operating temperature each and every trip, my fuel consumption would be much closer to 65mpg. Right now it's hovering around 53-54. The fuel saved there would more than make up for 1kwh of electricity.
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The factory block heater on my ford diesel is 750watts. However, I did find an inline water heater in the lower radiator hose on an eagle talon I had last year. It had been in alaska before i got it. Don't know the watts on that but that might be an option instead of a block heater (same effect basically).
as for the small cig plug in heaters. I now recall I bought one from harbor freight about 10 years ago. Took it back cause it didn't do much and made lots of noise. The new ones look different, maybe they are better and you could put one at each duct below the windshield or plumb them into your duct work somehow.