Furnace fan and battery drain

What about the old fashioned way and using your hot wife?

Age amplify the problem, but I notice big difference in bathroom trips depends on climate.
When I sleep in San Francisco are with 40% humidity, I make night trips.
I come to Las Vegas with 20% and can sleep solid till the morning.

hedgehopper wrote:

brholt wrote:
Sleep cold.

We actually like to sleep in a cold environment and have two comforters on the bed for winter (drop it to one in the shoulder seasons and zero in summer). Dropping the camper temperature to 55 degrees or so significantly reduces furnace usage yet we are warm and toasty under the comforters.

We too are warm and toasty in our bed. The problem is multiple nighttime trips to the bathroom.

That has to do with age more than anything....lol

Common misunderstanding is that non-vented heaters kill by CO.
When CO can happen in malfunctioning burner, lack of vent allows heater to use up oxygen and convert it to CO2.
So far I don't see anybody using those heaters with O2 or CO2 sensors and they put their lives in trust to O2 sensor mounted on the heater.
Do those sensors have a display where user can monitor how long he's got left?

There are more than a few "through the wall" vented heaters that do not consume electricity.

Having a family member who is a CO survivor makes one quite cautious.

narcodog wrote:

So I read the two star reports. All I can say the Buddy is an open flame and the Wave is a Cat, big difference. One of the reporters stated he could not get his lighter to work until he was next to a window. In that one I don't think he read the instructions. If you want the best get a PlatCat.

A couple things I would like to address. I used to think the same thing about the Buddy heaters until I did some research on the newer models. They are actually a catalytic heater also, and ok to use inside. The old ones were open flame types. I have since bought a catalyst type Buddy heater and they work excellent, with no fume problems to upset my wife who has allergies and asthma, and can't handle perfumes, scented candles, campfire smoke, and other airborn things, but the Buddy heater doesn't bother her at all. The fumes are actually less than our old Coleman platinum catalyst heater.

The other thing is I tried many times to get the guy with the Platcat heaters to email or call me. I gave up. I am not going to fight to give someone money, and I was going to buy one. Right up until I got zero response while trying to buy one for two different trailers. That is when I started to do the research on the Buddy heaters. They aren't the same thing guys used to use in ice shacks 10 years ago like I originally thought.

hedgehopper wrote:
When we dry camp in cooler weather, the furnace fan is our biggest drain on the batteries.

Short of going without heat, how do you keep the furnace fan from depleting the batteries below 50 percent charge during the night.

Add more batteries if you can.

What I also have done (only when remote camping, never in a campground when other people are near me) is locked up my Honda EU2k to a tree, at the end of a 100' 12 AWG extension cord and run it all night with a space heater on the 600 watt setting.

The gen will run all night on a tank of gas.
I sleep better to because I don't get woke up by the noise of the furnace fan cycling all night.

I just saw this in the YouTube.

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brholt wrote:
Sleep cold.

We actually like to sleep in a cold environment and have two comforters on the bed for winter (drop it to one in the shoulder seasons and zero in summer). Dropping the camper temperature to 55 degrees or so significantly reduces furnace usage yet we are warm and toasty under the comforters.

We too are warm and toasty in our bed. The problem is multiple nighttime trips to the bathroom.

My experience parallels that of the fellow in the YouTube video. The first time that I tested mine it shut down after a couple of hours and would not light. I then realized that I had no ventilation and that the oxygen sensor was working as it should. I also have a CO detector with a display and it never went above zero. The use of an unvented heater is always a hot topic. If these were killing off people they wouldn't be on the market.