Nitrous Bottle Warmer
Nitrous Bottle Warmer I have the nitrous bottle warmer/mount from Nitrous Outlet (as well as a bottle blanket) and it takes a good 25 minutes to bring the bottle up to temp. Is there a better way to heat the bottle so it comes up to temp sooner?
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are you sure you don't have a wiring issue or a control issue?
We use a warmer blanket and a milwaukee 12v battery on our race car and we can have a bottle up to temp in the lanes in a matter of minutes
We use a warmer blanket and a milwaukee 12v battery on our race car and we can have a bottle up to temp in the lanes in a matter of minutes
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I've read the bottle bracket with the integrated heater is a little slower than the regular wrap around heater as it has less surface touching the bottle. I ran a 10 gauge wire with a connector used for boat trolling motors to the heater for quick disconnect.
The heater is the cheap Dracary $75 from Amazon and it works surprisingly well. The bottles are mounted in the bed of my truck out of direct sunlight hidden under a Bakflip Tonneau cover. Summertime the bottles heat up fast and the transducer cycles very little... and of coarse with colder weather it takes a bit longer.
The heater is the cheap Dracary $75 from Amazon and it works surprisingly well. The bottles are mounted in the bed of my truck out of direct sunlight hidden under a Bakflip Tonneau cover. Summertime the bottles heat up fast and the transducer cycles very little... and of coarse with colder weather it takes a bit longer.
I don't think it's a wiring issue. Voltage is constant. I have it on a relay with 10ga wiring as well. I think the heating element in the bottle bracket only contacts 1/4 of the bottle vs the wrap style which probably heats all sides of the bottle. Eventually it'll reach temp/press. It's just super slow. Thanks for sharing the Dracary option. I may give that a whirl in place of the bottle bracket.
Bottle warming is fast vs safe. I have seen more people than I can count pull out propane or mapp gas torches to heat a bottle. Works real fast, but do you think that is safe? Best is up to you.
I don't think it's a wiring issue. Voltage is constant. I have it on a relay with 10ga wiring as well. I think the heating element in the bottle bracket only contacts 1/4 of the bottle vs the wrap style which probably heats all sides of the bottle. Eventually it'll reach temp/press. It's just super slow. Thanks for sharing the Dracary option. I may give that a whirl in place of the bottle bracket.
They are convenient and look nice, but don't do as good of job.
Get yourself a propeller heater. Or an electric "DE-ICE BOOT" that they use on aircraft. The 24v versions with a tool bat work REALLY well. Even at 12-14v they were cheaper, hotter, and worked faster than the N20 bottle blankets I worked with.
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https://www.ebay.com/itm/173953234509
