12V Ceramic Heater Fan for Vehicles

[yackboy49]

Are  these any good ? looking to put a compact heater in my car, came across these on Ebay.

cheers YB

[Glenn 'Stinky' Stankevicius]

If they are anything like the ones I got years ago, they are crap for heating and/or demisting.
You could assume the technology has advanced, compare the fan size to what is normally fitted to a car.

[fe350chev]

I think you would be better off with a Smith's style water heater at the front but one of these could possibly work on the back window with some slits for demisting in a cold climate with slits but the normal system isn't very big for the amps drawn I wouldn't think. It's far better to go for a compact refrigerated ac to dry air out but I'm assuming you would use these as throw always each season perhaps given their price. At $13 no harm in trying!

[fe350chev]

Just while on this subject I was thinking of using a new vintage air system but taking the pickup to the back of the car and doing what they do in the new vf Commodore with a pickup slit at the rear, so it encourages air to flow past the back window. I haven't seen it done in an fe/fc before.
This is the vf. I thought of running the pickup pipe or air intake from the back and actually dual purposing it as a wiring channel/air channel. Weird idea huh.