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[font=Tahoma, Verdana, Arial, sans-serif]uTube channel about my heater, which was pretty new to me at the time. I know a little more now but the basic mechanic[/font]

[font=Tahoma, Verdana, Arial, sans-serif]s of it are explained in super basic terms on the video. Check it out if you like.[/font]

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[size=small][font=Tahoma, Verdana, Arial, sans-serif]This is nothing like those kerosene heaters you mentioned. The heat those provide is from the actual burning of the oil. For the diesel AIR heaters, the heat comes from air that has been heated by diesel combustion being passed into your vehicle with a mechanical blower. One heats the air inside the vehicle, the other pulls air in, heats the air, and sends it back into the vehicle.  I get a little odor on startup coming from the small exhaust pipe on the outside, the same as you do when starting up a diesel vehicle. Once it's started the smell passes in a minute. I[/font]

[size=small][font=Tahoma, Verdana, Arial, sans-serif] would not run it on kerosene, for the reason skyl4rk m[/font]

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[font=Tahoma, Verdana, Arial, sans-serif]Your numbers are about  right for the actual power usage. On[/font]

[font=Tahoma, Verdana, Arial, sans-serif]e complication, though, [/font]

[font=Tahoma, Verdana, Arial, sans-serif]I sometimes have issues the next day starting up after running the heater for 4+ hours, but that's not because[/font]

[font=Tahoma, Verdana, Arial, sans-serif] of the heater exactly. If I don't have shore power, I can't plug in my block heat[/font]

[font=Tahoma, Verdana, Arial, sans-serif]er, which m[/font]

[font=Tahoma, Verdana, Arial, sans-serif]eans my glow plugs are colder, which means I need to crank the battery to start [/font]

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[font=Tahoma, Verdana, Arial, sans-serif]more, and anything that's been drawing from it can cause that to be an issue. The solution is simple: don't run it off the starter battery if possible. This will change in my setup soon.  For now, I carry a small lithium jumpstarter for these situations. [/font]

[font=Tahoma, Verdana, Arial, sans-serif]I can't be super specific on fuel consumption[/font]

[font=Tahoma, Verdana, Arial, sans-serif] on this because I run my heater off of my vehicle's fuel tank. I have 2 tanks, and use the rear only as an emergency back-up in terms of driving fuel. So my heater is set up to draw its fuel from that tank. In the winter particularly I try to keep this tank for exclusive use of the heater. [/font]

[font=Tahoma, Verdana, Arial, sans-serif]I know that last winter, when I was using th[/font]

[font=Tahoma, Verdana, Arial, sans-serif]e rear tank only for the heater, I might need to replace a couple of gallons[/font]

[font=Tahoma, Verdana, Arial, sans-serif] in the rear tank whenever I filled the front tank. but because I can't give you a time interval that is, how much time I was standing stlll and opposed ot how much time I was driving, so it's hard to determine how much fuel the heater was consuming. I sure doesn't seem to use much, though. Sorry for the lack of specificity; I plan to keep much better track of all that this winter. [/font]

[font=Tahoma, Verdana, Arial, sans-serif]I would be really really surprised if you ever ran this thing [/font]

[font=Tahoma, Verdana, Arial, sans-serif]continuously for an entire day[/font]

[font=Tahoma, Verdana, Arial, sans-serif]. On the coldest days, I ran the heater full steam for half an hour, then turned it down low for maybe another hour. When I started to feel hot, I'd turn it off, and leave it off until I felt chilly again. This thing creates a LOT of heat, and even though my bus is barely insulated, I maybe ran the heater for a max of 6[/font]

[font=Tahoma, Verdana, Arial, sans-serif] hours on the coldest day.  I prefer to use a 12v electric blanket at night and barely use the heat at all, though, so it really depends on how you choose to use it. I also have very little insulation; with more, you should be able to do more. 

[size=small][font=Tahoma, Verdana, Arial, sans-serif]I didn't use it much below 20 degrees F but I have no reason to believe it wouldn't be effective at the lower temp. [/font]

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[size=small][font=Tahoma, Verdana, Arial, sans-serif]You definitely won't need at 8k, go with the 5 or even the 2. I have a 5kw in my 20 foot bus (75 square feet of living space) and as I said it can get very hot in here. [/font]

[font=Tahoma, Verdana, Arial, sans-serif]One thing I did not do that I strongly suggest you DO, is get one with a remote. [/font]

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