Fabrication New Nitrous Bottle Water Heater April 16, 2015 / January 4, 2016 by John Heard fter many years of loading and unloading my home made Igloo Nitrous Bottle Heater from the truck bed at the track, I finally decided to make a new one that mounts permanently in the trailer. I didn’t have enough room for the bigger igloo setup so this narrower aluminum one will be really nice to have. Kurt Riffle from Riffle Motorsports had an old tank he had laying around since he used to run Nitrous and I talked him into modifying it a little for what I was wanting to do. He added some additional drain bungs, and a pad to mount a snap action safety temperature switch to the side. That safety switch is something I’ve been wanting after witnessing a controller malfunction due to a bad sensor and stay on causing the bath to get too hot, obviously that would be a very bad situation with nitrous bottles that we want to avoid. Read more » Bottle Heater Nitrous Water Tank
Fabrication Racing Equipment Nitrous Bottle Heater Controller Retrofit August 20, 2013 / July 29, 2019 by John Heard I finally got around to doing something about my home made bottle heater problems last week. I've had issues for years trying to keep a constant temperature for the Nitrous Bottles in my Bottle Heater. The old controller I was using was a mechanical thermostat setup from Johnson Controls, it worked, but it didn't hold a very tight temperature and I was always wondering exactly where I had the temperature set. The dial wasn't really a high accuracy deal. So I pulled the old controller off and switched to a Johnson Controls A419ABG-3C Digital Thermostat and it was a HUGE improvement. The A419 allows you to hold the temp at +/- 1 degree F, far better than the old mechanical control. Read more » Bottle Heater Heater Controls Nitrous Bottle Heater
