Stainless heater boxes from Plane Innovations

[Bob Brown]

I'm considering purchasing the stainless steel heater control boxes from Plane Innovations, but I have some questions from those that have installed them. I like the idea of avoiding another firewall penetration for a control cable, but for the type that have the lever inside the firewall, how does that work...do you have to cut a hole in the scat to get the pull cable attached? I can't visualize it from their website.

 

[pierre smith]

Ho Bob...

....it looks like they have both...the heater box with an inside the cockpit cable and the other, with the cable ahead of the firewall. What do you currently have? We're building a -7 and Van's supplied an in-the-cockpit cable...the flapper opens into the cockpit, whereas on our -6, the hot air is dumped overboard when it's not in use, as does the new Van's box.

Regards,

 

[RV7ator]

The valve with the control arm on the people side of the firewall does not accept a tube. It's intended to blast directly into a plenum for distribution. The control on the engine side has a 2" nipple on the pax side for tube.

John Siebold

 

[Ron B.]

Just purchased a pair from Plane innovations a few months ago, and they looked great and he was great to deal with. He knew just what I was looking for, just tell him it's for the RV-10. He said they are made a little different for the ten. And yes, the inside the cockpit control ones have no way to attach the Scat tubing. Those are the only ones available from ACS and I had to send them back. Their catalog described them as what I needed but was wrong.
Ron