I Investigated 10 Poor Man's Van Heaters (Only 3 Beat Winter With No Engine)
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I woke up with frost on the inside of my window at nineteen degrees, engine off, and that's the night I decided to test every poor man's van heater there is. Ten methods, two years, real money burned to find out what actually works when you don't have an engine running and you can't afford to be wrong.
In this one I break down exactly why the twelve-volt ceramic cube everyone buys first will drain your battery in four hours flat, why propane and kerosene heaters can fill a sealed van with a gas you can't smell or taste, and why the diesel air heater is the closest thing to a real fix money can buy — if you've got the cash for it. But I also get into the two options that cost almost nothing and still beat the cold, plus a heating trick pulled straight out of eighteen-nineties British railway carriages that third-class passengers used because they couldn't afford anything better either. If you've got twenty dollars and nothing else, there's something in here built for exactly that situation. 🔥🚐
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Per scaldarmi d'inverno tra i 0 e -10 gradi celtis uso una stufa realizzata da me .
La stufa ha areazione solo dall'esterno con una presa dedicata e brucia dei briquettes da 500 - 800 gr che realizzo, sempre io con dei cilindri e 5 fori di combustione disposti a pentagono . 1 briquette da 500 gr può durare da 3 a 5ore uno da 800 gr dura da 4,5 a 7 ore. Dipende dall'aria in ingresso.
Nel camino c'è uno scambiatore di calore tra i fumi caldi in uscita e l'aria fredda prelevata , scaldata e immessa nella carovana. Così facendo l'aria esterna a -10 gradi celtis esterna la posso scaldare tra 18 e 22 gradi in ingresso della carovana.
La mia stufa scalda e si può cucinare con una pentola alla volta sopra , ma in vero riscaldamento lo fa lo scambiatore di calore .
Con il freddo più tosto devo per forza usare un po' l'aria forzata con una ventola che è posta in ingresso stufa e dopo lo scambiatore in ingresso carovana per cui un po' di elettricità nei momenti più freddi serve .
Invece fino a -1, -3 anche da sola, senza elettricità, posso avere tra 14 e 16 gradi comodi in carovana. A proposito la stufa ha un volume di circa 7lt. e lo scambiatore è un interculer da auto turbo diesel
I Investigated 10 Poor Man's Van Heaters (Only 3 Beat Winter With No Engine)
Wendell Vanlife
35,896 views
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I woke up with frost on the inside of my window at nineteen degrees, engine off, and that's the night I decided to test every poor man's van heater there is. Ten methods, two years, real money burned to find out what actually works when you don't have an engine running and you can't afford to be wrong.
In this one I break down exactly why the twelve-volt ceramic cube everyone buys first will drain your battery in four hours flat, why propane and kerosene heaters can fill a sealed van with a gas you can't smell or taste, and why the diesel air heater is the closest thing to a real fix money can buy — if you've got the cash for it. But I also get into the two options that cost almost nothing and still beat the cold, plus a heating trick pulled straight out of eighteen-nineties British railway carriages that third-class passengers used because they couldn't afford anything better either. If you've got twenty dollars and nothing else, there's something in here built for exactly that situation. 🔥🚐
Wendell Vanlife is where broke men figure out how to survive the cold, the DMV, and everything else nobody's handing us for free — come join the crew and subscribe.
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One small thing that costs nothing tonight: before you trust any heater, deal with the cold coming through your windows. A piece of cardboard cut to fit the glass, held in with weatherstrip foam, makes a bigger difference than most men expect, and it doubles as blackout for stealth parking. Cold glass is why so many guys think their heat is failing when the heat is fine.
Also, crack a window an inch no matter what you run. Always. And put a battery carbon monoxide alarm at head height where you sleep, not on the floor.
So tell me, which of the 10 are you running right now, and is it actually holding through the night?