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                           RV6-List Digest Archive
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                     Total Messages Posted Thu 07/06/06: 3
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     1. 07:44 AM - Heater vent inlet up vs down  (Ralph E. Capen)
     2. 08:26 AM - Re: Heater vent inlet up vs down  ()
     3. 08:38 AM - Re: Heater vent inlet up vs down  (George Frost)
 
 
 
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Time: 07:44:06 AM PST US
From: "Ralph E. Capen" <recapen@earthlink.net>
Subject: RV6-List: Heater vent inlet up vs down

--> RV6-List message posted by: "Ralph E. Capen" <recapen@earthlink.net>

Fellow listers,

I'm getting ready to install my heater vents on the firewall.

The way I read it, the instructions say 'inlet down'.  This means that when you're
not using the heater, the hot air is being blown up behind the engine instead
of down towards the cowl exit area.

Did I miss something?  Does it matter?  I would think inlet up.......Did they instruct
it the other way for a reason?

Pictures of how folks have already done it would be appreciated.  Also, If you
did it one way and didn't like it......why?

Ralph Capen


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Time: 08:26:22 AM PST US
From: <kbob@cox.net>
Subject: Re: RV6-List: Heater vent inlet up vs down

--> RV6-List message posted by: <kbob@cox.net>

Ralph,
I used the -7 upgrades on the -6A and it has the heater vavle waste exit on the
left side.   Not sure I'd want to spill oil from the filter into the heater valve...which
would happen if it was exit up.

Kelly Patterson

---- "Ralph E. Capen" <recapen@earthlink.net> wrote: 
> --> RV6-List message posted by: "Ralph E. Capen" <recapen@earthlink.net>
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> Fellow listers,
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> I'm getting ready to install my heater vents on the firewall.
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> The way I read it, the instructions say 'inlet down'.  This means that when you're
not using the heater, the hot air is being blown up behind the engine instead
of down towards the cowl exit area.
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> Did I miss something?  Does it matter?  I would think inlet up.......Did they
instruct it the other way for a reason?
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> Pictures of how folks have already done it would be appreciated.  Also, If you
did it one way and didn't like it......why?
> 
> Ralph Capen
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Time: 08:38:27 AM PST US
From: George Frost <ghfrost@earthlink.net>
Subject: Re: RV6-List: Heater vent inlet up vs down

--> RV6-List message posted by: George Frost <ghfrost@earthlink.net>

Ralph,
I put them in with the inlet (actual cockpit outlet) down and have no 
problem. I think it might be more of a problem, reversed, with the heat 
being trapped up into avionics and instruments. I think it also would 
impede the flow away from your possibly cold feet and the cockpit. I 
also installed small tributary tubes that work as defrost, which 
contrary to some advice, I find necessary in NE Ohio.
George
On Jul 6, 2006, at 10:42 AM, Ralph E. Capen wrote:

> --> RV6-List message posted by: "Ralph E. Capen" 
> <recapen@earthlink.net>
>
> Fellow listers,
>
> I'm getting ready to install my heater vents on the firewall.
>
> The way I read it, the instructions say 'inlet down'.  This means that 
> when you're not using the heater, the hot air is being blown up behind 
> the engine instead of down towards the cowl exit area.
>
> Did I miss something?  Does it matter?  I would think inlet 
> up.......Did they instruct it the other way for a reason?
>
> Pictures of how folks have already done it would be appreciated.  
> Also, If you did it one way and didn't like it......why?
>
> Ralph Capen
>
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