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- jaycocreekExplorer IIThese lights are quite popular in Amish communities also..
Humphrey Gas Light This incredible indoor propane gas light mounts on the wall of your home or cabin. The Light comes with a pre-formed or tie-on mantle. The Humphrey Gas light is equal to a 70 watt light bulb and runs on either propane or butane. Costs pennies per hour to operate. Humphrey gas lights can be used with natural gas or butane with the purchase of the appropriate nozzle. Safety certified by the Canadian Gas Association Air intake is factory pre-set. Made in the USA.
Humphrey Indoor Gas Lights
Indoor Gas Lights are an excellent alternative to electric lighting. Interior gas lights are easily installed in cabins, homes, fish shacks, and RV's. Millions of people have chosen gas lights as their answer to off-grid living - JRscoobyExplorer II
jaycocreek wrote:
OMG...Now 12 more pages on the correct meaning of forced air..I explained it correctly but labeled it wrong,evidently..(laffin)
First, you make a untrue statement " the forced air furnace without a blower.."
When questioned your definition, you trumped down on it with
"They used to have just a furnace without a blower that forced air out, kinda like a catalytic heater,that had no blower or electricity involved..The thermostat was numbers on the dial..LOL..When the number on the dial reached it's temperature,it went to just the pilot until it needed more heat.."
A furnace, gravity or forced air, does not resemble a catalytic heater. Furnace will always have a path for the waste gasses of combustion to the outside, not into the room with the heated air. The most efficient will bring air needed for combustion from outside.
Where a gravity furnace could work in a RV, not use electricity it would burn more propane, unless it was below floor level. A wall mounted unit would put heat high in the room, to pool at ceiling. With nothing to circulate it would take a lot of heat to get that pool down to knees. The fan blower reverses the natural flow in the furnace, so the natural flow in the room helps to heat it. - spectaExplorer
ticki2 wrote:
The OP is looking for pleasing light and heat . LED produces neither.
Exactly. - LatnerNomad
Kayteg1 wrote:
So it is nostalgia thing?
Years ago, I had gasoline powered lamp.
It was original cool-miners light, what was cool as it had self-igniter (rare 40 years ago) and flame had double steel mesh around, so any methane presence would be indicated by internal blows, but without igniting gas around.
It was cool as hell, but over the years its practicality diminished and finally it ended in the garbage.
So back to my question. Why not slap couple of LED panels inside the old fixture and have it all without maintenance hassle and without endangering your life?
Get over it. He doesn't want leds, he wants a functional gas lamp and he is aware of the risks. - jaycocreekExplorer IIOMG...Now 12 more pages on the correct meaning of forced air..I explained it correctly but labeled it wrong,evidently..(laffin)
- ticki2Explorer
JRscooby wrote:
jaycocreek wrote:
JRscooby wrote:
I thought blower was involved in the definition of forced air furnace?
They used to have just a furnace without a blower that forced air out, kinda like a catalytic heater,that had no blower or electricity involved..The thermostat was numbers on the dial..LOL..When the number on the dial reached it's temperature,it went to just the pilot until it needed more heat...
The older campers had the propane lights/hand water pump/forced air furnaces(without blowers) etc because most only had one battery and RVing was nothing like it is today..
Old school wasn't so bad and everyone lived that followed instructions,just as today..LOL
I know what used to be, but that was called a gravity system. The heated air is lighter, so it flows out to be replaced by colder air. In the house I grew up in, if we closed the door at the bottom of steps, so the dense air could not come down, we had no heat in the upstairs bedrooms.
Correct , forced air means blower . - ticki2ExplorerOne hour of one burner on the gas range would equal almost four hours of gas lamp use . The OP is looking for pleasing light and heat . LED produces neither . Both have their place and I use both .
- JRscoobyExplorer II
jaycocreek wrote:
JRscooby wrote:
I thought blower was involved in the definition of forced air furnace?
They used to have just a furnace without a blower that forced air out, kinda like a catalytic heater,that had no blower or electricity involved..The thermostat was numbers on the dial..LOL..When the number on the dial reached it's temperature,it went to just the pilot until it needed more heat...
The older campers had the propane lights/hand water pump/forced air furnaces(without blowers) etc because most only had one battery and RVing was nothing like it is today..
Old school wasn't so bad and everyone lived that followed instructions,just as today..LOL
I know what used to be, but that was called a gravity system. The heated air is lighter, so it flows out to be replaced by colder air. In the house I grew up in, if we closed the door at the bottom of steps, so the dense air could not come down, we had no heat in the upstairs bedrooms. - jaycocreekExplorer II
JRscooby wrote:
I thought blower was involved in the definition of forced air furnace?
They used to have just a furnace without a blower that forced air out, kinda like a catalytic heater,that had no blower or electricity involved..The thermostat was numbers on the dial..LOL..When the number on the dial reached it's temperature,it went to just the pilot until it needed more heat...
The older campers had the propane lights/hand water pump/forced air furnaces(without blowers) etc because most only had one battery and RVing was nothing like it is today..
Old school wasn't so bad and everyone lived that followed instructions,just as today..LOL - Kayteg1Explorer IISo it is nostalgia thing?
Years ago, I had gasoline powered lamp.
It was original cool-miners light, what was cool as it had self-igniter (rare 40 years ago) and flame had double steel mesh around, so any methane presence would be indicated by internal blows, but without igniting gas around.
It was cool as hell, but over the years its practicality diminished and finally it ended in the garbage.
So back to my question. Why not slap couple of LED panels inside the old fixture and have it all without maintenance hassle and without endangering your life?
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