21694291 Engine Heater | Genuine Volvo Penta Part

🔧 Product Description

Mains-powered immersion or circulation heater used to preheat the engine coolant before starting. It reduces cold-start wear, improves starting reliability and shortens warm-up time on Volvo Penta TAD13 generator engines.

🚤 Compatibility

Typically suits:

• Volvo Penta TAD1380-82GE
• Volvo Penta TAD1344-45GE-B
• Volvo Penta TAD1341-43GE-B
• Volvo Penta TAD1381-85VE
• Volvo Penta TAD1384-85VE-IWP

• Engine Family: TAD

⚙️ Key Features

• Supply voltage: 220-240 V AC
• Heating output: approximately 1500 W
• Designed for engine-coolant preheating
• TAD13 generator-engine application
• Requires correctly protected shore/utility power

🔌 Function

Heats the engine coolant before starting to improve cold-start performance and reduce warm-up time.

⚠️ Common Signs of Failure

• Heater does not warm coolant
• Earth-leakage or circuit-breaker trip
• Coolant leakage at the element
• Open heating element
• Damaged power cable or thermostat

🛠️ Service Notes

• The cooling system must be filled and properly vented before the heater is switched on — energising the element in a dry or air-locked jacket will burn it out
• Isolate the shore supply and let the engine cool before removing or fitting a heater, and drain enough coolant to work below the heater opening
• Renew the sealing ring or gasket at the opening and tighten to the figure in the workshop manual for your engine
• Inspect the element for scale and the housing for corrosion; a heavily scaled element runs hot and will fail again
• Have the electrical connection made off correctly and protected, fed from a properly earthed and protected shore supply, and check the cable and connector for damage each season

🔄 Supersession & Cross Reference

Other-Brand OEM Numbers

• VOE21694291

📦 Condition

• Genuine Volvo Penta part
• Brand new
• Supplied in original or equivalent packaging