Electric fan heaters

Bloody hell - a post where I can actually give YOU advice! Thats a first

It will either

1) Overheat and switch itself off
2) Trip marina supply fuse
3) Set boat on fire.

B&Q have loads of oil filled radiators (only about £20) which are a lot safer - no glowing red hot elements to set the carpet fluff on fire.

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Dear Uncle M.

I keep being pestered by a strange man with the same name as me. He wants me to go to the pub with him and insists that I will like the rather strange beer that they serve there.

Additionally, he keeps trying to talk to me about diesel engines and their advantages over petrol, and asks me if I like "going single" which I am sure is a euphemism for some bizarre perversion.

I have recently discovered that, for all his fine words about diesel, he has gone "over the divide" and has taken up with a petrol powered American beauty. He is now asking me if I want to see his "Big block V8" and keeps muttering about preferring a muddy English estuary to a welcoming Mediterranean inlet.

How can I pursuade him that I just want to be friends, and that his persistence is worrying me? I fear that I may have acquired a cyber-stalker; help!

M. Dreamer
Downt'pit
Oopnorth
Yorkshire

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All the posts on this are right! but for me there is no way I would leave a fan heater on a boat unattended. The answer to why? is simply this: fan heaters have at least one moving part - the fan. If the fan motor is as reliable as the fan motor on my comuter power supply then I expect it last for hours not weeks or months. I am happy that the fan heater will fail safe - it has cutouts and thermostates as previously suggested but WHEN IT FAILS the boat is no longer heated - I rest my case. Lots of redundancy - low wattage Greenhouse heaters are the way to go.

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This is a good question. IMHO you need to get warm air moving aounnd the boat and exiting carrying the surplus damp with it. Have you thought of removing the log impellor thus allowing the heavy cold damp air to drain out the bottom thus allowing lighter drier warmer air to fill the boat instead?

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