I feel that a transportable heater running on bio fuel would meet all of these needs without requiring multiple different heaters.
How are you going to make it portable to move between garage and future motorhome? They are designed to be permanently fixed, sealed to the floor/wall with the corrugated exhaust and intake hoses fixed a set distance apart with metal clamps and the correct length relative to each other, then you've got the paper/foil ducting on the interior side inlet and outlet, the diesel tank and connection, power supply and the control/stat wiring.
I've got a van and an unheated garage. It's unimaginable that I would try and make the Propex heater in my van movable to the garage for the sake of a £15 electric space heater from Screwfix! Also you can point the electric heater towards the bench/bike stand for direct heat whereas it's unlikely you can can do that when you've poked the diesel heater hose through a 100mm hole through the wall.
These heaters are normally fitted on the floor below other items in the van (space being at a premium and lots of obstructions in and below the floor) so they are not easy to get to, my work vans have had them below shelving, my old van had one below the kitchen units, my current one is the best for access but I need to disconnect and remove the fridge to get to it and that's just the heater, not the ducting and inlet/outlet.
Er…. is that a joke? They’re unsafe because they didn’t come with proper instructions?
Doesn't sound like a joke to me! It's a heater that creates lethal fumes designed to be used in a confined space (van/horsebox/truck). You wouldn't fit a gas boiler in your house even with instructions, what makes you think you can do it with poor instructions?
It's got to be room sealed and the exhaust has got to be effective, not near an opening window, not able to collect water, not allow fumes to collect and rise up through gas dropout holes, not set fire to the floor or insulation of the van, and if you put an awning on your van, is the wind going to allow fumes to collect in there?
Was staying away last month and had to help when a horsebox caught fire early one morning, not fun seeing smoke billowing out, no one could get in to check if anyone was inside asleep due to the smoke, trying to get people to close the doors/ramps to starve the fire and get adjacent trucks moved out the way was chaotic.
What about a tea light and a flower pot, apparently a rocket engineer built a heater using a few candles and it heats his entire house. According to Facebook.
You do know who it's WCA we are dealing with here
What about a tea light and a flower pot, apparently a rocket engineer built a heater using a few candles and it heats his entire house. According to Facebook.
LOL! I was planning to experiment on that but the small flower pots got sold out at local Wilko.
someone take a lead by coming up with a prototype that is economical, safe and price reasonably etc?
It exists in the form of Autoterm / Planar heaters, but they're 4 x the price of the Chinese ones:
Be careful with the innovation bit:
Dodgy ones siezed
from what i can gather they were seized due to the instructions rather than the actual units being defective
