I am not so sure the Mr. Heaters are safe. CO
tends to sink to the bottom of the trailer (where, most likely, your heater
resides and you do not reside) and therefore should result in a shutoff of the
heater in certain situations (preferably before asphyxiation...)
Not sure I'd trust my life to the safety device
working as it should... We all know that man-made devices work perfectly
EVERY time. :-)
We
have used a mr. Buddie Heater that is safe and uses small lpg bottles. They
last 8 hours on high and 4 on low.RIDES OF MARCH 50 it kept us warm in snow
storms both nights we were there.
Matt
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Original Message ---- From: Joe Long <jlong@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> To: ridecamp
<ridecamp@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Sent:
Sunday, October 28, 2007 7:21:46 PM Subject: Re: [RC] Question re: Heaters
at rides
Mike Lewis wrote:
> 1. Is there any chance
AERC will ever allow the "no generators after > 10:00pm rule" to
slide? Many of us do not have finished living quarters > (some
don't even have insulation) in our trailers and the only > relatively
SAFE heat is electrical heat.
You're mistaken about that .. see
below.
> 2. How do trailers with factory living quarters
provide safe heat > during the night?
Factory or
conversion, the common method of providing heat is a forced-air propane
furnace, run on the 12V battery. Other than the size and battery
power, it's the same basic design as the furnaces in many houses.
The propane burns using air from outside and the exhaust is vented
outside, and a heat exchanger heats the inside air. No fumes or
carbon monoxide get into the trailer at all.
You don't need
finished living quarters to install one of these into a trailer's
tackroom, although obviously it wouldn't do much good in an open stock
trailer.
