Anyone using the Mr. Heater "Journey" catalytic heaters?

StirCrazy wrote:
yes I do know from experiance and a electric heater how having a window and a vent open about 1" will make a heck of a draft between the two. depending which window/vent you use in your rv you may or may not notice it while your sleeping, but the wrong combo you will.

so aparently you use windows that you wont feel but your still bring cold air into the rv, does it make sence to bring cold air into a space you trying to heat, and for what? what are you gaining doing it this way? well your gining the chace if you make a mistake one night you could forget to open the window, or if the heater gets a small spot dammaged that you dont notice it will be pumping out more gasses than expected..

after markt companies sell them for rv use because the way they word it they have no liability so its all about the dollar. they were baned from being factory installed in rv's maybe thats because there is a different leverl of liability involved there, I dont know

So you only have experience with an electric heater. Catalytic, sunflower, and Mr. Buddy heaters are used all the time by thousands of ice fishermen every winter in Minnesota. Trust me, we do have experience you don't have. And one drunk/idiot will die every year, but people die in car accidents daily.

I said open a window to 1/4-1/2" not a full inch. You don't need much for intake. We always have the Maxxfan open about 1", perhaps less, whether we use the conventional furnace or the catalytic. So if you open your window 1", or choose a window into the wind, then it's your problem that you have too much ventilation, not mine.

Once my heater starts failing we'll get a notification from our CO detector and throw the heater away. You can't rejuvenate a catalytic heater.

The little bit of cold air brought into the camper is not even close to the inefficiency of a Dometic furnace. Not even close.

Enjoy,

Perry