Tahoesteve said:
Hey MeAT....what if the power goes out?
Steve
I'm screwed :shock:
Actually, I've had that happen.
Not a power outage, but the heater reset kicked out.
Generally it happens sometime in the middle night, so the van was warm enough that nothing froze hard enough for damage.
Dirk, i use a kero heater when it gets below 10 or 15 degrees and windy.
No insulation in my van and my "garage" is a drafty unheated pole barn.
Space heater won't keep on very cold nights.
With a kero heater there's a couple things you need to do.
First, you'll need a small fan to circulate the hot air.
Other wise it will be 100 degrees at the roof and freezing at the floor.
Any small, cheap $10 fan will work.
If there's any left at Wally-mart, they'll be clearance priced and even cheaper now .
Next thing you MUST do, is keep a window or two cracked.
If not, the heater will consume all the oxygen in the van, smother out and you'll wake up to a SOOTY MESS.
(don't ask me how I know that
)
Lastly, a small kero heater (10 to 12K btu) is all you need, but they're hard to find.
Nobody wants them cause they're the same price or more as the full size 23K BTU heaters.
The 23K btu are over kill, but you'll assured of walking out on a 15 below morning and getting into 70 degree warm van :wink:
The other alternative is a propane sunflower heater.
I found them to be more expensive than kero
..L.T.A.
