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(More customer reviews)I've used one of these for about 3 fill-ups now: about 36 hours of use.(I don't think it will ever be 16 hours on 1 gallon, but 12 is fine by me.)
It's flawless.It smells a very little bit at start-up and shut-down, but while it's running it's essentially odorless.And perfectly quiet (a very soft gurgle once every ten minutes or so when it needs to sip some fuel into some internal tank) -- and it puts out a lot of heat.
I have a room that's maybe 300 square feet with 5 big windows.On a cold night (close to 0 degrees F.) this thing can warm up that room by 2 or 3 degrees in 10 minutes, and maybe by 8 or 9 degrees in an hour.If you sit across the room and it's pointed straight at you, you can feel it right away.
It easy to fill up.There's a cannister that you carry outside (garage) and fill from your kerosene container with a hand-powered siphon.Worked the first time.This may not work if your outdoor kerosene container is too low, but then you can just use a funnel.The cannister stands up nicely by itself for filling, on a level surface (like a garage floor).
There's a little window on the cannister that lets you see when it's almost empty during use -- and when it's almost full during fill-up.
When you want to turn it off, you press the "extinguish" button -- the big knob in the middle winds rapidly counterclockwise -- makes a loud noise -- and the flame usually goes out immediately.Sometimes it may gutter for 30 secs or so before completely going out.
At start-up time the flame gutters a little for maybe 60 secs before the combustor starts to glow red, then the flame stabilizes and becomes perfectly quiet.You can't really see a flame except a little bit of blue-- maybe a quarter inch at the very top of the combustor.
It's very easy to start up using the little battery starter device -- you just push a red button, hold it for a second, then slowly release.I've done maybe 20 starts so far on one pair of batteries.You can start it with a match instead if you want to (or have to.)But the battery-powered starter is nice.The back and the top and sides of the unit stay COOL TO THE TOUCH after an hour of use.Probably indefinitely.
This gadget is an example of a perfect combination of high-tech (the way the combustion works) and low-tech (it's .... kerosene, after all.)
There aren't many things this good.Cast iron pans, maybe?And ... um ...windmills that really work ?I don't know.
I don't see how I could ask this thing to be any better.
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10K BTU Indoor Portable Radiant Kerosene Heater
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