First thigns first, the son of friends of my parents is an electrics engineer with RWE, a European energy corporation, biog player. My parents said their friends told them he has gotten fired some weeks ago after having corroded patience of his superiors over "impertinent" internal warnings - not whistleblowing in public! - for dangerous instabilities and risks of supply interruptions in the continetal power grid. I cannot judge this narration and know only what they have been told, but if it is true as they were told, I would not be surprised. And I would take it as another warning, another weriting on the wall. The man, my age apparently, is specialising in powergrid egineering as a professional with decades of experiences under his belt. He seems to expect the big one before end of this decade.
Now, my latest project, and I like it:
Facts by one day experience: The tank holds short of 4 l, I filled it to the half, and that halved load lastet close 4.5 - 5 hours. A standard big cannister of petroleum weighs 9-10 kg and holds 20l, that thing would give you around two full days of constant heating, I restimate, 48+ hours. Its just that you do not run this constantly, you dont need to. I give 20l a standing time of short of one week, therefore.
You need only four batteries, size D.
The thing stinks heavily in the first 2-3 minutes when igniting it. It stinks again heavily when shutting it down, but after ignition, when the temperature of the flame got right and is perfect, the smeel levbel goes down tremendously, ypoiu then can rtun it inside your home. I did not bepeive it until I red it, I so far believed that petroleum lamps never are to be burned inside living rooms and houses if you have no good air circulation. I would nevertehless recomemnd to run these things never without a CO2-CO-warner.
This thing is ideal for glasshouses with plants, cellars, garages, outdoor huts etc, and in case of emergency you will tolerate the smell in your home if the alternative is ice covering your wallpapers.
As I saiudm, the smell if bad durign igntiuion phase. I thus placed the thing near my door to the loggia, and would open the door during ignition in the future.
I woudl recommend to establish a time pattern for frequent air exchnage envertheless.
The charm of this is - it is a.) surprisingly effective (it heats, not warms but heats, my main room which is more than 25 sqm), and b.) you do not need stilk wokring powergrid and electricity to start it, you are fully independent. The consummation rate for petroleum also surprised me, I expected it to be worse.
I will store 4 cans of 20l in my garage. That would possibly bring me over one month of siberian winter.
