Cheap Cabin Heaters.

[basic]

I bought two Kingavon Frost Watchers(500w) from ebay several years ago. They are mounted on bulkheads one aft under the chart table and one forward. I live onboard all year round and am never cold. They have thermostats and look quite neat when mounted. One would be more than adequate for frost protection. They are as cheap as chips and unlike fan heaters totally silent and trouble free.

 

[ferroboat]

This is even cheaper to buy and to run.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fvFOCwWBdKk

http://moonshineofmersea.wordpress.com/

 

[sarabande]

you get exactly what you pay for.


Either clean, dry, 500 Watts of hot air from the tubes.

Or poisonous, smelly, wet air from a 30W candle.



Each one of those tubes is the equivalent to 17 flowerpots.

 

[charles_reed]

you get exactly what you pay for.


Either clean, dry, 500 Watts of hot air from the tubes.

Or poisonous, smelly, wet air from a 30W candle.



Each one of those tubes is the equivalent to 17 flowerpots.

One must spring to the defence of Dylan - how do you know his was one of your common-or-garden candles?
Or possibly it was an ecclesiastical candle, made with real beeswax and giving out 76 watts. (And destroying the economics) in fact I believe that he used dish-heating candles and I can't find the thermal output for those.

 

[Sybarite]

One must spring to the defence of Dylan - how do you know his was one of your common-or-garden candles?
Or possibly it was an ecclesiastical candle, made with real beeswax and giving out 76 watts. (And destroying the economics) in fact I believe that he used dish-heating candles and I can't find the thermal output for those.

I tried Dylan's method last year when I wanted to put off the time for turning on the heating. It worked fine until one day there was a wax leak or something and the whole thing flamed up.

Thanks Dylan, but no thanks.