Portable electric heaters
Just curious to see what are the safest and most popular electric heaters you all use? Going camping soon and want to augment the propane heater in the evenings. Thanks in advance. Curly
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rhagfo wrote:rockhillmanor wrote:
Ceramic heater preferably with a "tip over switch". Read the labels carefully to see if the heater has a tip over switch.
Rv's are small and these units are usually placed on the floor where it easily can be knocked over.
Which finding one with a safety 'tip over switch' is becoming harder and harder to find since UL caved in and changed the laws and says they are no longer mandatory because lobbyist says its too costly for the manufacturers. :R
I digress IMHO buy a heater with a tip over switch. It tips over and it shuts off immediately.
The new safety functions.....when the heater tips over it will only shut off when it touches something and catches fire to raise the temp level high enough to shut off. A little too late for me.
Off my safety alert soap box. :C
Well as son of a Firefighter I avoid portable electric heaters as much as possible. I am
Concerned with draw on an RV outlet, and fires started by contact of flammable materials. The only semi safe portable electric heater is the oil filled, but still the issue with draw on the outlet.
I can agree there is some risk simply because electrical fires do happen.
However that risk exist with any hi draw appliance. Furnace and LP fires happen as well.
In the end use reasonable precaution and you should be OK.
