Is my Catalytic Heater working properly?
I recently purchased a 'reconditioned' Olympian Wave Catalytic Heater. I've never owned one before, so I'm not sure what to expect. When running on high, I expected the entire pad would be glowing u...
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Francesca Knowles - I was looking for my gun as well to finish me off hehe... Didn't mean to start anything - my post was more about venting fumes then the installation. I would think the flexible hose connections would be safe to bend. I would probably do a full 360 degree loop to feed the Wave heater after reading the comments here.
Photo was available from google so used it.
Mounting to a cabinet door sure has its convenience.
I had to chuckle at all of the "DO NOTs" reading the PDF on the WAVE HEATER that was submitted. Not once did it mention about venting out the fumes (or I may have missed the verbage). It was more orientated on replacing the burned-up oxygen in the room. Mena (Mr Don) would probably have some good words to say here hehe...
For some reason I never thought this type of heater would be a factory install but an after-market install??? Interesting to read some come this way from the factory.
I survived all of my tent camping outings back in the 50s and 60s using the Coleman and Mr Buddy catalytic heaters. I loved the round COLEMAN where you filled it up with white gas then turned it upside down for the gas to pool on the top grill - then lit it off- It would shoot a flame up three or four feet until it finally turned to a big red glow. Would run all night after that... Sure warmed up the biggest tents. I have burned up my gloves many times thawing them out laying on top hehe. I still have a MR BUDDY Heater for my POPUP for a PLAN B situation.
I would certainly respect the use of any catalytic type heater.
The last recent related deaths I have read about was a camping couple at the Talladega Superspeedway NASCAR race track last month. May have been generator related...
Roy Ken
Photo was available from google so used it.
Mounting to a cabinet door sure has its convenience.
I had to chuckle at all of the "DO NOTs" reading the PDF on the WAVE HEATER that was submitted. Not once did it mention about venting out the fumes (or I may have missed the verbage). It was more orientated on replacing the burned-up oxygen in the room. Mena (Mr Don) would probably have some good words to say here hehe...
For some reason I never thought this type of heater would be a factory install but an after-market install??? Interesting to read some come this way from the factory.
I survived all of my tent camping outings back in the 50s and 60s using the Coleman and Mr Buddy catalytic heaters. I loved the round COLEMAN where you filled it up with white gas then turned it upside down for the gas to pool on the top grill - then lit it off- It would shoot a flame up three or four feet until it finally turned to a big red glow. Would run all night after that... Sure warmed up the biggest tents. I have burned up my gloves many times thawing them out laying on top hehe. I still have a MR BUDDY Heater for my POPUP for a PLAN B situation.
I would certainly respect the use of any catalytic type heater.
The last recent related deaths I have read about was a camping couple at the Talladega Superspeedway NASCAR race track last month. May have been generator related...
Roy Ken
