Heat Exchange Systems

I now use a Helton and am happy enough with it, except that the big Chevvy V8 diesel takes a while to get hot enough to warm the water up. However, we've only used it once and that was about 10 days ago when we attending the big EO gathering at Warraweena and on the Sunday morning (when I was trying to provide water to shower several people), it was pretty frosty. However, ended up being okay and all were happy.

I can't see any reason why you couldn't plumb the helton up the same way that the others recommend.....the same principal applies to all these heat exchanger type systems. The one thing I have thought of doing is installing one of the small electric pumps Site Link into the heater hose set-up so that once the motor was at operating temperature, it wouldn't be necessary to keep running the motor as the pump would circulate the coolant, keeping the heat exchanger at a more constant temperature for a longer period. This would be especially good if the shower was being used at the end of a long day's drive as the coolant would be at it's most optimum temperature.

Cheers

Roachie

When I installed mine, I was wondering the same thing, so I e-mailed Tony from Helton and asked the question. His reply in part:-"We recommend parallel fitting because there is a slight gain in efficiency but our units will work just as well in series."

I connected the heater out to Helton in, and Helton out back to the engine block.
Heater controls adjust water temp. Works just fine.

Might be an idea to e-mail him with your questions.

Cheers
Glenn

The only problem with fitting to a Ti (other the space) , is that the Ti has lecky climate control rather then slide heater controls.

It was a pain mucking around with it on my Ti , so I ended up fitting a mixer system to make it easier.

It DOES work with the climate control, its just a bit of mucking around to get it right.