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Cold garages & heating solutions ?
McCabe-Thiele (Ted):
Might be an old video as prices are closer to £175-200 for a brand you might have heard of.
As an experimant tonight I will set my tower fan heater to maintain around 18 C overnight using economy seven & see what temperature it reaches. I will use the side door for access via my office that acts like an air lock entry.
Matt_Harrington:
Ted, I have a mate who has ordered a diesel powered infrared type heater (no fan) so it will be interesting to see his review on this.
McCabe-Thiele (Ted):
Diesel - infrared - I'm mystified by the combination - sounds like a flamethrower 😁😁😁
amx1992:
I bought my 8kw one in the summer, so it was only about £80, before they seem to have exploded in popularity. I couldn't recommend it enough.
They are reasonably noisy, especially the exhaust, but i always have my lathe / mill / vapour blaster running, so i dont really notice it. If you get one with an external tank, throw away the fuel filter it comes with, mine broke and dumped 10l of fuel all over my workshop.
I filled up a 20l container and have the fuel being sucked out by the pump, rather than gravity fed, so let chance of spill. I filled up the container on the 2nd december and it ran out yesterday, but im here about 9hrs a day 5 days a week.
It runs a bit colder on waste veg oil than diesel, but still very effective. I think a lot of the heat goes out the exhaust, so I'm going to try some way to capture a bit of that heat, maybe in the new year
amx1992:
Also, if you run kerosine, mix in a bit of 2t oil for the pump
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