[Ansteorra] Tent Heaters

[Alianorra MacAiodh]

Im sure I will catch grief for this....
 
Bordermarch Autumn Melees three years ago, I had a "tent safe" heater still start a fire. We were in my tent and the heater was on a flat level surface pointed towards me and it STILL caught my Sisters bed on fire. Luckily for her the smoke first woke her up and she woke up me. But we were still dragging burning bedding out into the rain in what we sleep in. The heater sat in the rain in effigy the rest of the event. We both still have scars from the fire, although my sisters are worse than mine. 
 
Im a Huge fan of having a heater. However the only tent safe heater I know of is the HeaterBuddy. They will cost you over $100.00 and can be found in many places. Take the time to spend the money if you are going to purchase a heater for your camping gear. I had not done so at the time. I owned the cheapest "tent safe" heater I could find at the time. I no longer make that mistake. Also if you are going to have a heater make sure you keep all synthetic fibers away from it. The night of the fire all of my sisters bedding was synthetic, I sleep with cotton and wool. We think that is part of the reason her bed caught fire and mine did not. 
 
Just tossing my personal experience out there so others will not make the same mistake I did. 
 
Good luck staying warm. 
 
Alianorra

--- On Tue, 2/2/10, Albin_oil_de_larrun <albin_oil_de_larrun at yahoo.com> wrote:


From: Albin_oil_de_larrun <albin_oil_de_larrun at yahoo.com>
Subject: Re: [Ansteorra] Tent Heaters (was GW camping in cold/hot weather tips)
To: "Kingdom of Ansteorra - SCA, Inc." <ansteorra at lists.ansteorra.org>
Date: Tuesday, February 2, 2010, 11:01 AM


If you have a gander mountain store nearby, they sell a small heate for tents. It's supposed to be able to be run in a closed tent. I saw them in the fall and thought it would be great on cold days. 

Ld. Albin Oil de Larrun
Shire Adlersruhe
Kingsom Ansteorra

On Feb 2, 2010, at 10:56 AM, Cisco Cividanes <engtrktwo at gmail.com> wrote:

I'm sort of jumping into this, so if this has been said already my apologies.

If anyone is going to get a tent heater, please make sure to consider
ventilation. Combustion, by definition requires oxygen, and a lot of
heaters give off gasses that can be highly poisonous. I am not
familiar with all of the models, or all of the safety features
currently in stock.

However, I do recall reading about an event (Pensic, I think) where a
couple were fatally poisoned in their tent in the night due to a
mishap with their tent heater.

I urge anyone who is looking to buy a tent heater to consider this
risk and account for it themselves, or ask someone more knowledgeable
in such things for advice.


Sorry if this sounds like a rant.

In service,
Lord Ivo Blackhawk

On Tue, Feb 2, 2010 at 10:45 AM, Mike Wyvill <wyvillmike at gmail.com> wrote:
All of what Lord Tomas said is good advice. I would however dip into my
experience as a Scoutmaster in regions colder than ours to add this. If you
are going to purchase a heater, make sure you get one that will shut itself
off if tipped. No you shouldn't leave the heater unattended but there may be
a time where your friend just got back with a steal from Midnight Madness
and you just have to go and see.

Engenulf de Vienville
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