<br /><br />Sounds as though you ought to stick with LED and a catalytic heater, then. Though an argument could be made that using a catalytic heater in a closed van is asking to die.<br /><br />Everything a person might do can be construed as asking to die if the person does it on autopilot or just doesn't do it with prudent good sense.<br /><br />In the end we don't actually need to ask to die. It comes with the territory.ParadiseParrot said:
<br /><br />Some do, some don't. There's a coleman one here specifically says it's not for indoors, warns of carbon monoxide danger using it in an enclosed space. Admittedly it's an old one.<br /><br />Which merely illustrates again that broad, general sweeping statements say a lot while dissolving whatever truth they might otherwise have contained. Including alarmist ones <br /><br />Ballenxj said:
<br /><br />Willy, you bring up a very good point. When I first buy a new oil lamp I experiment with how much wick I can expose to see what quality & brightness of light I get. Every oil lamp if the wick is extended enough gives off some nasty black "sooty" smoke. I know how much to NOT extend my wicks so I get enough light without getting that "sooty" black smoke. There is nothing more disgusting than seeing that nasty smoke coming from an "oil" lamp.<br /><br />That's also why I use high quality "lamp oil" rather than kerosene as well. They do have some very good lamp oils available as well. The other benefit of using an oil lamp is that lamp oil is very inexpensive. I buy a bottle or two at a time. At $2.99 per bottle that's relatively inexpensive lighting with no draw on the van's electrical system. I'll still have LED lighting but leaving ANY kind of flame burning when I'm sleeping is very unsafe.<br /><br />Thanks for your comment Willy!Willy said:
<br /><br />That wood/oil heater sounds fairly easily doable... I likes it. But, of course, I'd do it with diesel. Diesel's cheaper here and a lot easier to find than kero. As for the explosive nature of it, I can only say it's a lot more trouble getting it burning than kero.... less refined, as I understand it.<br /><br />Surely like the woodburner/oilburner idea though. A person could easily convert a cast iron wood stove to handle both, I'm thinking. Or build one from scratch.Angeli said:
<br /><br />Indeed! Although we never had problems with our critters as they stayed on ground level. If you have cats, a good idea is to hang the lamp with the hooks provided for that, or if you have a nice antique, there are tons of setups to mount it nicely to the wall, along with chimney shields to prevent sparks and soot from discoloring anything.
