Hey guys! Welcome back to the channel. Very exciting news today. I just got in the mail,
yesterday or the day before, the Afterburner diesel heater controller.
The Afterburner is a controller that you can basically plug right into your diesel heater it is
good for the triangle connection and the screw-in connection but there's a guy in Australia called
Ray Jones and he has come up with a fantastic design for a new diesel heater controller some
of the features that I'm very interested in is the Wi-Fi capability so you can control it
remotely and also it shuts down the diesel heater if it gets too hot which is great because some of
those nights where you're a little cold but you don't want to wake up sweating in the middle of
the night because your heater won't kick off are brutal and very excited that this controller can
do that this controller has a lot of other great features that I'll get into later I'm basically
going to install it right now I've got all my parts laying all over the van. Me and Cayleigh are
taking off this weekend for a couple month road trip so this controller came in clutch timing and
yeah I'm gonna go ahead and get it installed I've gone through two diesel heater controllers since
I've had my heater so that's about two years so I'm going through like a controller a year which
just doesn't seem to shouldn't be happening I get an error code I think it's E-06 or E-07
or something like that and twice now it's been my controller so very strange comment below if
you've had similar issues but I'm very excited to upgrade to this controller I'll go through some of
the things you need to check for before you order this and there are also some options that you can
check or uncheck it depending on what features you want in this controller this controller also
adjusts for elevation and pressure which is very nice he hasn't come out with the update for it
yet but I'm sure it'll happen soon and that'll be great for going from sea level up into the
mountains so now let's get into it this is my spare box so I carry all of this all the time
in the van just in case especially in the winter time I have like two pumps computer
unit wiring I just have everything here just in case I need to do a fix while we're on the road
so I got these parts out and Diesel heater is right there so I'll show you how I've
accessed that and set that up and then I have the afterburner right here so you can actually pick
what color configuration you want which is kind of cool I went with black and gray because mine is
mounted up here and I feel like it'll blend in and look pretty good so yeah that is the controller
I also got a programmed remote right there looks like that
this is the temperature sensor which is great because I'm going to wire mine probably along
inside my van instead of having it in the front portion this will be a lot more accurate for me
this is the wiring harness so you connect that to the factory wiring harness that comes
with the chinese diesel heater and then you actually can transfer all of your settings so
show you how to do that and then this is an extra wiring harness don't require this but I got this
feature anyways uh it's so you can program your heater depending on what inputs and outputs you
program so I'm not exactly sure how that works I'm probably not going to set that up yet but it's
something that I may do in the future for sure and then he's got install guides and user manuals and
things like that so yeah lots of information here I also always carry an extra controller
this is the controller that I've been having a lot of trouble with so yeah gonna go ahead
and switch this sucker out before you purchase an afterburner controller you need to check a
few things with your diesel heater to see if it's compatible if it's not no worries you can always
change out the computer that's located inside your diesel heater I will show you both so this
is one that is compatible with the afterburner and I ordered a Vevor one for spare parts and
the module on that is not compatible so I'm gonna be switching that one out for this one this is
my old original one that I had to my controller long story but the point is I have both so I'll
show you both there's a lot of information on his website on which controllers are potable and which
um CPUs are compatible I'd recommend checking your CPU just to be sure because the controllers can
kind of um vary and it can be a little harder to tell there's no mistaking which ones are
compatible I will link also all of these products in the description below if you want to reports if
you want to check out the afterburner all the links will be down there let's begin [Music]
well I don't actually have to remove the seat to
do this but I want to give you guys a better [Music]
got my diesel heater right here step number one is going to be removing the fuse
which is conveniently right here so this just is removing power to the diesel heater
I actually have a fuse here and a fuse back on my DC fuse panel but I'll just remove this guy
and then I am going to remove this cover to access the CPU computer uh module for the diesel heater
and then I have kind of disassembled this so I got my heater right here I have to take this plastic
cover off to access this guy this is where the new afterburner is going to plug into so yeah
let's uh take this apart and take this part and I'll show you how so on your hair it's unthread
that
so
and this is only held on by one screw and then there's kind of a clip right here
prime example of a module that isn't compatible with the aftermarket burner so I'm gonna remove
this I'm gonna know which plugins go where and then I'm going to install this guy so this was
the original one that came with this diesel heater and I swapped them out they worked fine
I had to do it because I had to use a different controller so I'm going to reinstall this one
because this one is compatible new module is installed always a good idea to check
to make sure your fan is uh spinning freely and if it needs to be adjusted while you're in here
all right guys so here's the thing these are not compatible these are compatible so it's
kind of tough with the controller but you can tell the big giveaways are the text the arrow
size and one other thing I noticed is the gear on the top left like the settings button there
it looks completely different on this one than it does on this guy right here so hopefully you can
see that and tell the difference but controllers aren't very reliable I would definitely look at
the modules the computer modules uh this one is not compatible this one is compatible so these
two go together this is from the Vevor one and this is from I can't remember the brand that I
originally bought but these work with that brand I'm going to install this one on this heater so
I have a full spare unit I can basically just when this one dies or if anything happens I
can just bring this one out put this new one in be good to go another thing that I wanted
to talk to you guys about is the altitude compensation so awesome feature with this new
controller very excited to be able to use that in the near future another thing to mention is
unfortunately even though this is Bluetooth I have an iPhone so I can't use this
for Bluetooth but I'm hoping I can still use it for Wi-Fi not that I'm honestly going to be
controlling it remotely that often but if I want to it's nice to know that I can hopefully one day
there's an app that'll link to this for iPhone users but maybe not either way it's all right
just to loosen up all four of those screws
you can see a few different uh plug-in locations one for the heater and then
one for the temperature sensor and then one for the other module there
man it looks like there's also a battery
which is really nice a backup battery hold all the settings just in case it loses power good feature
make sure to run your wires through the back cover for
putting this back together so I'm gonna put those four screws back in and then we're gonna plug it
in and see how it transfers data from my old controller to the new afterburner all right so
I got my setup hang in here might not be great for the wiring harnesses but uh they're they're pretty
Hardy so should be fine uh I haven't applied power I'm going to apply power and then I'm gonna follow
this step-by-step procedure it sounds like it's fairly easy if you have a digital controller but
if you have the rotary knob it can be a little bit more complex you want to make sure to follow these
procedures exactly how he says because if you don't it can erase the original settings for your
heater and you could have problems so make sure to follow these exactly as he States so I'm going
to go ahead and do that transfer the settings from the old Guide to the new one and touch base after
all right guys so that was super straightforward uh very easy to tune the parameters from your
existing controller to this one I'm not going to go through it honestly it's very straightforward
it'll take you a few seconds just to read through and tune it I'm gonna go ahead and disconnect the
power and then disconnect my old controller and install this one and put a few two screws
it looks like in and run this temperature sensor and then fire it up and test it out
I actually unscrewed uh the top piece to do this properly definitely recommend so I can just uh
go like so after I attach it and then plug these guys back in and we'll be good to go
very easy just like that I also have my temperature sensors just up on the other
side here I think that's a decent place for it to pick up the temperature it should be
just got it right here so two decent place for it it's a lot better than here because
when we pull our curtain across the temperature difference from inside the cab versus like inside
the back is a lot different right everything is connected back up got it installed there
and I just hit start so holding down the center button turns it
on it says heating glow plug right now this is the temperature outside
shows battery shows a ton of information
um and yeah see how this goes just finished testing it out worked flawlessly I'm gonna
have to go ahead and spend the next two months playing around with all these settings seeing
what this controller is really capable of I'm really excited to test it out further but if you
guys have any questions feel free to comment below let me know if you've been having the
same problems with your controller if you've gone through a couple I don't know what's going on with
mine but check the wiring and everything seems to be fine so I think it's just you know one of the
poor chinese diesel heater qualities unfortunately but I would definitely recommend carrying a spare
box of stuff like I do here just in case your heater goes in the middle of winter do not want
that to happen big shout out to Ray Jones for coming up with this I'm sure it took a lot of
work but we're all very appreciative if you guys want to check out any of these parts or linked
check out in the description below this video is completely unsponsored Ray did not contact me at
all or anything I wanted to do this on my own and I'm really happy that I did so if you like this
video if you found it useful be sure to like and subscribe and I'll see you guys in the next one!
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