Not really a work session today, just leak checked the propane line I installed yesterday. But we fired up the heater for the first time and sat inside the warming trailer as I soon started yawning and felt that I badly needed a nap.
I just love this little heater. Excuse the shoddy cabinet it's temporarily mounted on--it has the original cutout from the Panel Ray and will be replaced later. The exhaust pipe is also the air intake feed--it's double walled. Therefore the heater is using no air from inside the trailer for combustion (a good thing). There is no noticeable heat on the outside skin after running for a hour, so the fresh air side of the deck pipe seems to insulate heat from the exhaust very well.
Let it run for 30 minutes or so to burn off the brand new odors and then brought Pam in to sit by the fire. Nasty wet drizzly Washington day outside.
That looks great Steve. Nice work. Does it stick out into the entryway very much? I'm considering one of these for my trailer.
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Hi Norm,
ReplyDeleteThe specs say 5.5", but seems like a little more. Maybe they aren't counting the mount and knobs. Anyway, I'd guess 7 or 8 inches. Definitely sticks out a little in a place you'd just as soon it didn't.
I'm thinking about putting a grab handle on the bulkhead next to it, to encourage grabbing that instead of the heater entering the trailer.
steve
The grab handle is probably a good idea. I'm debating putting a Dickenson in the location you have it, or possibly at the end of the kitchen cabinet facing the gaucho. The second location is where the original heater was located. However, I'm also debating replacing the gaucho with a dinette set up, so everything is really still up in the air. In either case, I need to watch out for the little ones who tend to grab hot things without thinking.
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The guard on the flue pipe doesn't seem to get very hot, but the pipe itself does. It's insulated somewhat by the double wall, but it still gets hot enough you don't want to grab it, maybe not burn you hot, but hot. The diesel version we have on the boat just has a single wall flue and it will definitely cause a burn if you touch it.
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