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Heat rises.

Only in the presence of a fluid to provide convective heat transfer. Conductive heat transfer and radiant heat transfer occur in all directions.

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ended up with a half azz 2 tank system.

I disagree, there's nothing "half azz" about what LE did. Besides who made you the design police? What's it to you?

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Originally posted by john galt:

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Heat rises.

Only in the presence of a fluid to provide convective heat transfer. Conductive heat transfer and radiant heat transfer occur in all directions.

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ended up with a half azz 2 tank system.

I disagree, there's nothing "half azz" about what LE did. Besides who made you the design police? What's it to you?

John; we seldom agree 100% percent on things but I do have to say that in this case it is there. It's easier to polk a finger at the hole in the donut than to make the donut I guess.
Maybe he still doesn't "get it" that it is NOT an SVO system, was not designed to BE an SVO system and will NOT work as an SVO system. From the onset I made it clear that it was "borrowed" from the SVO system and aplied to B100 across the spectrum of all feedstocks.
It is, IMO, the most reliable method of running B100 in cold weather.
Others prefer other methods. I like this one.

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It is, IMO, the most reliable method of running B100 in cold weather.

I will 2nd that.

I already have a veggie conversion on my truck so im 99% of the way there to use bio in the winter. The only challenge is pre-heating the fuel in the morning with an AC heating element or something (along with the usual block heater) and keeping it warm enough during the day where you can restart it and get home after work.
If you have a webasto / espar coolant heater you wont need any of this since youre heating and flowing coolant thru your bio tank. I really want one of these but theyre really expensive =(
This would all work best with an insulated fuel tank, like the ones folks put inside a truck toolbox.
heated filters, heated lines, heated fuel pickup would all be necessary.
And purging to go back to dino diesel before shutdown would help with clogged fuel in other places that arent as easy to heat.
So essentially were back to a full conversion which is why many folks went to bio instead of SVO in the first place, heh.

The deed is done.
Tomorow I am swapping out the old tank for a new 316 stainless steel one as the one in the pics ended up leaking. It was the ONLY component I didn't personally check and just took the builder's word for it and that is the one that crapped. The system works great though

Nice job on the box for the tank. Thats going to hold the heat well enough that you may be able to park at work and start up on bio at the end of the day.