Best Engine Room Heater

It has to be me but I couldn't get the Govee to stay on for more than 23hrs and 59 min. Everything is controlled by bluetooth and as soon as I left the boat it shut off in a few hours. Brought it home and swapped it for a simple Vornado heater with a few manual switches. I monitor the temp via the Blink cameras. 3 heaters in the cabin keep it no colder than 60 and the one West Marine heater in addition to the block heaters have the engine room between 51-65.

It's 38 and bright sunshine at the marina and the cabin is 69 and the engine room is 61. No complaints!
 
It has to be me but I couldn't get the Govee to stay on for more than 23hrs and 59 min. Everything is controlled by bluetooth and as soon as I left the boat it shut off in a few hours. !
That is odd. You only need the Bluetooth to configure/set it up. I don't use Bluetooth after I leave the boat, it's all Wi-Fi.

3 heaters in the cabin keep it no colder than 60 and the one West Marine heater in addition to the block heaters have the engine room between 51-65.

It's 38 and bright sunshine at the marina and the cabin is 69 and the engine room is 61. No complaints!
Nice and Toasty :)
 
Yeah, in the app it defaults to turning off after that amount of time.

Mine doesn't do that? You can see where my heater was going on and off last week. No issues with my Govee staying on for a month now.
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Mine doesn't do that? You can see where my heater was going on and off last week. No issues with my Govee staying on for a month now.
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The heater will shut off in 23:59 minutes. It is defaulted to that in the app. There may be a way to override but I leave it as is for safety. I have other heaters set to on at 55 and off at 60 that are smaller and USCG approved.

Is your heater a GoVee heater or other?

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For clarity, I mean the Govee sensors, Monitor and app, not a heater. My Govee is always up and running when I check it.

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The heater will shut off in 23:59 minutes. It is defaulted to that in the app. There may be a way to override but I leave it as is for safety. I have other heaters set to on at 55 and off at 60 that are smaller and USCG approved.

Is your heater a GoVee heater or other?

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I misunderstood you. I have the Govee app plus a different bilge heater.

You may want to try setting your heater to come on at a lower temp and reduce the differential before it goes off. It will be really hard to maintain 55 deg if the air temp is much colder.
 
Do they have one that fills the fuel tanks, empties the holding tank, fills the fresh water tank and puts ice in the cooler?
 
Fixing to purchase a new ER heater. The old boatsafe heater is making a lot of noise.
I’ve noticed that there is a Extreme Heater and Caframco Pali available.
Pricing is comparable based on wattage.

what’s ur experience?
I have a Pali and love it. Neighbors boat froze this past weekend and I loaned him mine. I was very impressed on how well it worked for him.
 
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Very happy with Twin Hornet and Govee - both are performing well:




I run similar setup. Run the Twin Hornet in the bilge but run the temperature stock (https://tempstick.com/) to monitor the bilge, cockpit and inside cabin. Additionally, I also monitor the bilge temperature, battery voltage (both house batteries) and able to turn a few things on and off via: www.boatcommand.com (I've had this a few years and LOVE IT).
 
In the water this year. Just got home from winterizing the engines, generator and fresh water system. Air conditioning system was a major PITA and I couldn't get the pump to prime at all to run the pink through. Can't access the discharge ports to blow air.

I have one cabin heater and will add a second to keep it nice and warm. Looking to do the same for the bilge. I should have installed block heaters on the engines but ran out of time.

If you haven't already, don't forget to cover over the vents to ensure the engine room stays nice and toasty. I use the blue painters tape every year with multiple layers.....
 
If you haven't already, don't forget to cover over the vents to ensure the engine room stays nice and toasty. I use the blue painters tape every year with multiple layers.....

Or get a used piece of shrink wrap and cut to size and tape the edges. It's a little easier.
 
If you haven't already, don't forget to cover over the vents to ensure the engine room stays nice and toasty. I use the blue painters tape every year with multiple layers.....

Did that the following weekend! Buddy had some left over shrink wrap so I used that and the recommended preservation tape. Engine vents covered, block heaters, bilge heater and 3 cabin heaters going. Boat is warm! Although the internet just went out at the boat so no cameras or temp monitoring. I'll go down in the AM and see what's up.
 
I've done that before to seal the vents and I've also stuffed foam in them, which I could do now since I'm undercover. I wasn't able to reach mine on the side that well so I thought "oh well".

There were a couple boats in my marina this spring, summer and even fall that still had their vents sealed, kind of a sign they weren't using their boats.

Tough to even think about this now with it almost 70° at my house.
 
Did that the following weekend! Buddy had some left over shrink wrap so I used that and the recommended preservation tape. Engine vents covered, block heaters, bilge heater and 3 cabin heaters going. Boat is warm! Although the internet just went out at the boat so no cameras or temp monitoring. I'll go down in the AM and see what's up.

I know it's expensive but it was $50 for me to add a Verizon MIFI (4g router/internet) but I have one on the boat and it serves as the internet access point for all of my wifi devices on the boat. That also include a few Wyze cameras so I can see who is/isn't trying to get on the boat and alerting. Paranoid? Yep! I've been doing this a while and have seen people do some strange #@!$#!. I also NEVER EVER EVER trust the marina wifi. Every single marina I've been to their wifi stinks. I work in the IT field and also trust no other devices on my network :)

Shrink wrap works just as well... main thing is covering over those vents however you can. some people also I heard use the foam pool float thing/noodle.
 
That might be something I look into for the boat. We are hard wired with Comcast to the boat but for some reason the router is showing no power. Called the marina and there is no power outage, etc. Currently have 3 Blink cameras, one in bilge, one cabin and one cockpit to watch things when we are not there. The temp monitoring has me borderline obsessed checking all the time when it's cold.
 
That might be something I look into for the boat. We are hard wired with Comcast to the boat but for some reason the router is showing no power. Called the marina and there is no power outage, etc. Currently have 3 Blink cameras, one in bilge, one cabin and one cockpit to watch things when we are not there. The temp monitoring has me borderline obsessed checking all the time when it's cold.

I also use my MIFI Jetpack 4g to stream music/movies while on the hook. It's been exceptionally reliable. Again, I don't trust any marinas since their wifi is typically pretty awful. YMMV.
 

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