Engine Pre-Heaters/Preheating Techniques

[Pat Rolfes]

Bob-

Thanks so much for the info. I'm really intrigued by this one.

My mechanic and his father say they knew Pete Tanis (we're all from central Iowa). They insist that Pete had no problems with plugged in "all the time"(obviously based on weather). He talked of maintaining constant temps vs warm-cold-warm-cold. He felt tanis has enough "uniform" heat that there are not really condensation collection points.

They qualified all of this with me by including that the plane must be flown a "reasonable amount" for this to apply.

Still looking for definitive answers....