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#Diesel heater for caravans portable

There are some obvious, and less obvious benefits of a portable diesel heater over a fixed one. The second unit that arrived was in good condition, and has been used for around 40 nights, without any issues.ĭespite the price, these are fairly reliable Advantages of a portable diesel heater

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I simply submitted a claim through eBay and Paypal, and got a full refund, including the postage costs to return it. I contacted the seller, who offered me a 30% refund (Yeah, right!), and then refused to answer any further communications after I agreed to send it back. I repaired some of the damage, and fired it up, but the fan wouldn’t spin properly.

When I opened it, I could see it was mangled, and had been damaged in transit. I actually purchased two portable diesel heaters, as the first one arrived damaged. There is a significant difference in pricing, and probably in quality too, but the Chinese units are extremely common. There are the originals (Eberspacher, Webasto etc), and then there are the Chinese copies, which are being installed by the thousands all over the world. There are lots of places you can get Diesel Heaters from. The portable diesel heater warming our Reconn R2 up down near Arthur River Where can you get them from? I picked one up off on eBay for about $280, and it arrived not long after. The solution was simple get a portable unit that would sit outside the camper trailer, and pipe the hot air in through the canvas door, with the zipper holding the inlet in place. When I got home, I said no more lets get something to warm the camper up, and I spent a long time looking for a solution.īeing a soft floor camper trailer, there was no where that I could run the hot air into the camper trailer from the body, and we didn’t like the idea of lugging a diesel heater around all the time, when it probably gets used for 10% of the year. We spent the last few hours of the night together in the one bed, and were still cold. His hands were like ice blocks, along with his head and face (which you obviously can’t cover). I remember our little boys waking up a few times throughout the night, and even with about 8 layers of clothing on our youngest (with 3 sleeping bags), he wasn’t keeping warm.

However, one weekend we chose to stay down at Nannup in the middle of winter, and it was FREEZING.Ĭamping down at Nannup, where it went below zero with two young kids in our camper trailer If you have a bad camping experience, I guarantee you won’t want to do it again.Ī while back, we picked up a soft floor camper trailer, and Sarah and I would sleep on the queen bed up the top, with our little sons in porta cots down below.įor most of the year, the temperatures are reasonable, and anything down to around 10 degrees at night is fine even with young kids. However, we are also very comfortable when we head away, which makes it more enjoyable. We head away at least once a month, and probably average about 50 – 60 nights a year in our camper trailer. They are cheap to purchase, easy to use, draw very limited power (meaning you don’t need to be plugged into 240V), are cheap to run in terms of diesel consumption and do a seriously good job at warming anything up you need them to. Just briefly, diesel heaters are an amazing solution. Our portable diesel heater What’s so good about a diesel heater?

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#Diesel heater for caravans how to

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