Webasto or Espar?

Does your Webasto heater have separate controls or is it integrated into the trucks OEM heater controls?

 

It has it's own control on the sleeper berth control panel.

 

I was at the Volvo dealer the other day and if you get the heater installed at the factory, the OEM controls control it, so I was just wondering if Freightliner did that as well.

 

Heard that if you use Kerosene once in a while , it will help to burn the carbon build . Obviously , you would need to have a separate tee for a once in a while portable Kerosene can . Kind of like your own little portable Gum Out machine .

 

And that would be right. Running some kerosene thru once in a while is good for the unit. I have been wanting to install a separate tank of, say 5-10 gallons, that would be just kerosene and run the Webasto all the time off of that. Really would cut the risk of dirty fuel or water contamination getting in the unit, and it would run extremely clean. I can get bulk kerosene near me for a more reasonable price than the packaged stuff at the farm and home stores.

 

Not sure how the other offering are from FL. Mine is a 2013 glider truck. Since those are based on previous truck wiring designs, that may have something to do with it. The newer designs may have something similar to what you describe from Volvo.

 

Didn't know that you could run Kerosene exclusively .