Winter Camping with a SPACE HEATER? | Outdoor Mythbusters
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- čas přidán 25. 06. 2024
- Winter camping in the snow or camping in cold weather? Well why not camp with a space heater? Heating a tent with a space heater? Does that actually work? Heating you tent isn't rocket science, there are tons of options out there, if you have any questions please let me know in the comments below. This is a quick winter overlanding/camping video talking about space heaters in your tent and whether or not it works. It's a new series I'm doing so if you have suggestions for Myths to bust type them out in the comments, maybe I'll use your suggestion?
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0:00 Winter camping
0:51 Which heater?
1:56 In the tent
3:44 An explanation
#wintercamping #coldcamping #overlanding - Auta a dopravní prostředky
What are y’all’s suggestions for more myths to check out? What’s something y’all always hear but you think is BS… or maybe you’re curious if it’ll work?
@@TrekMTBikeRider lol. That’s the one I’m already filming tomorrow. Weird coincidence.
@@TrekMTBikeRider yeah I know it’s BS, I used the buddy a ton. But I will do it anyways just to disprove the myth.
@@TrekMTBikeRider Thats rough, big tents can be a big heat loss problem I'll have to test that in my video with the buddy heater.
Keep them coming!
@@DevinGiles thanks! Appreciate it
Nice video. I have that same little heater along with an EcoFlow but haven’t tested it in winter myself yet. Interested in getting a diesel heater so I will be looking forward to seeing the rest of your series.
The eco flow is great with the diesel heater, hardly uses any electricity. Going to do a video soon on the diesel heater but I think it's really great. Only thing Id caution about is not filling them up all the way with fuel and then doing heavy offroading. Keep it at about 75% full and you wont even use that much.
I've been using that exact small black Honeywell heater, and I plug it into one of those old manual Christmas light timers with the push/pull timing adjustment. It only has adjustments in 30 minute increments though. But it lets me have it run for 30 minutes, and shut off for 30, that's my usual setting.
Occasionally I use a heated blanket too. That draws less power.
I use an insulated rooftop tent btw.
If your car is nearby I run a 240v inverter off the car with a fan heater in the tent. Get it heated up and then turn the car off
Electric space heaters are notoriously inefficient, but I was curious how they would work with a battery pack like that. Thanks for the video! Looking forward to the next heater video.
Yeah they were all super inefficient even the small one. Could have been cool but, oh well. There’s good heating options out there but they aren’t nearly as cheap.
Well a heated blanket is really cheap actually.
Electric space heaters are 100% efficient.
Thanks! Amazing how much electricity even the small ones draw. We should bring back the coal bed pan warmers, lol
I have been thinking of using a white gas catalytic heater like the ones Coleman makes as aa tent heater. I've used them years ago and I can't remember how long a tank lasts but it worked really well but I really don't know how long ? I don't know if two would be too much depending on the size of the area being heated but two would be worth trying for colder weather.
More overlanding videos!!
I’m trying to get more coming in soon. More gear but also more camping videos. Been focusing on the gear content before I get the camping videos that I started off doing.
We use these at my office as basically hand-heaters. They seem to just heat directly whats in front of them and I think that is how they are marketed as well.
Yeah I used it at my desk sometimes pointed directly at either my feet or hands. It works great for that but anything else not so much.
Awesome test. what is your current best way to heat a tent? Im reluctant to use a buddy heater for the carbon monoxide poisoning risk, have you done an outdoor myth bust for that?
Hi, I just tried the same little heater with my Eco flow 2 and I had it in my living room and it worked for under one hour just !! Then the Eco flow two battery died!
So I was testing it for using in a tent for this weekend 🙃
Sadly I know now that it won’t work.
We’ll have to bundle up lol
For the little Honeywell, what do you think about bringing the tent up to temp with the buddy heater and then turning the Honeywell on low and see how it maintains? I have a similar small electric heater in my ultralight trailer. I use it to save on propane when we are hooked up or running on generator.
How about 12 volt dc heater straight off a 12 volt battery? Wouldn't that be more efficient?
Good test! I’m looking forward to the big winter test… go diesel heater!
Yeah I’m hoping for the diesel heater also. That being said the space heater might actually work in your teardrop since it’s inclosed.
@@OXFOOT maybe, but I already put the heater in it. What it needs is a tent annex as the diesel heater could heat it all.
I always get a winter campsite with electricity and run a mini space heater ( a little smaller than the honey ) and it works great in my two person heater. I face it towards my queen blow up mattress and it heats that up as well as the tent all night long. Much safer than a gas heater!
Yeah camp sites with electric are great for that. You could probably run a very large heater off the shore power or directly plugged in.
Diesel heater is so far only option what works in tents, anything else is crazy inefficient.
For just a bit colder night heated blanket works well, I got nice and fluffy one in king size (tent is bigger than that), starts at 100-150W and then runs at 80W so you can easily run it over night and charge back with solar during day.
For the most part what I typically run is a heated blanket and then if it’s colder I’ll either run a diesel heater (which is what I recommend for most folks) or my propex (a lot more expensive than most folks need but likely the best heater possible)
@@OXFOOT Ouh yea, I’ll take propane propex heater over diesel any day.
Comfort of use is way higher, specially that I completely do not trust all that cheap diesel heaters what are basically copy of webasto. Never seen webasto on fire and with this I could trust to have it mounted nicely, Chinese copies have to be in place where it won’t burn down anything else then itself 🤣
In real world situations i have found survival candles work and there are videos here on CZcams that show how to build one that runs on alcohol 👍
Curious if a heated blanket or one of those ignik sleeping bag liners would be any better?
I need to add that ignik thing to the list in the heater video with the heated blanket coming up.
I use a 12volt heater blanket in a mummy bag. It's not hot but it does help. It's only 48watts.
When you do the heated blanket review, please do it with the blanket under you, and another review with the blanket over you.
Yeah I’ll try that out. I typically would put it underneath me but I can try it both ways. Thanks!
@@OXFOOT It's just that I saw on another big name channel where they were saying to put it over you with another blanket on top. If you catch my drift....
@@metaglypto Yeah I think that it's perfectly fine to do that though, I've probably said that in the past. I would actually say about 50/50 I put it on top or beneath. In my case because I have a great mattress pad I prefer to put it on top because I won't lose too much but when I'm with my GF we would put it beneath. So maybe a bit more underneath but I don't always do it the smartest way even though I know better. I can try it both above and below when I test it.
Dude I'd love to wheel with you. I have a 2000 Isuzu trooper and it gets a lot of attention. Plus I love winter camping as well. I live in Littleton.
Yeah I’m in wheat ridge so I’m not that far away. You on IG? We could plan something on there.
@@OXFOOT unfortunately I'm not really on social media. LinkedIn and meetup are really all I have.
@@OXFOOT any other way we can set something up?
I haven't tried this, but wondering if anyone out there has -
Hanging the small heater from the roof of a small tent, hanging down maybe a foot, instead of having it on the floor.
Hearts mini van no problem
Yeah I think tents are just too breathable. The Fraziers are doing a video on using one of these insidetheir sequoia so hopefully it’ll work for them too.
I used 2 gun racks to put shelf in back windows. 😎
@@hauk3839 Nice thats smart. Maybe one of these days when I get a tear drop or something similar I'll try this test again. More enclosed might work.
Haven't there been reports of those buddy heaters potentially, all though low chance, producing carbon monoxide?
That’s actually my next video in the series.I’ve used them for years in tents but I want to test it fully to make sure I’ve not been exposing myself all these years.
I run two of the next size up heaters in a 6-8 person tent. I'm extremely comfortable on my cot without even covering up. that's plugged into a campground outlet.
Nice! Maybe the one I had was just too weak. How do camp sites charge you for using their utilities? I feel like they probably have more efficient electricity compared to a powerbank.