PAN2000 boat heater. Experiences/opinions, please?

[Poignard]

I have recently heard about this ingenious boat heater for the first time, made in Sweden. [Website here]. It's a clever idea and it doesn't need much by way of installation, just an 12volt socket and somewhere to poke the chimney out of. Also the current consumption is low.

I thought, at first, it was a bit expensive but, compared with the prices of Taylors/ Reflex/Kuranda heaters, it's not bad. 2995 Kroner = £250 appprox. And you can take it with you when you change boats.

Has anyone here got one and are they any good?

 

[FAITIRA]

Doesn,t sound great or efficient to me. Gas and Amps?
Seriously,If you are going to burn gas anyway Ken, I can not understand the antipathy toward catalitic gas heaters. At least half the purchase price!
I am on my third in 35 yrs, cheap to buy, install, safe if you have a decent gas installation, alarm system, etc to begin with. Never had a condensation problem and I can safely use it at sea.
I find this system so good, I have not been able to justify spending another 1k MINIMUM on a diesel system in 15yrs living aboard. Admittedly no futher North than SW Scotland!

 

[Poignard]

[ QUOTE ]
catalitic gas heaters.

[/ QUOTE ] I'm not antipasta to them. I don't know anything about them. Do they somehow burn gas without producing carbon monoxide or condensation? I so, I'll order one straightaway. If not, I'd rather order something with a flue leading outside the cabin.

 

[Rivers & creeks]

[ QUOTE ]
Boat-owner P.J. Lyrner
in front of his boat.

[/ QUOTE ] Wow - dig that crazy lifejacket! I want one, there'd be no more accusations of indeterminate sexuality wearing that

 

[FAITIRA]

Obviously they must produce some combustion products Ken, but used sensibly, providing ventilation, my experience of using them over 25yrs has been satisfactory.
The Pan 2000 is a nice idea, but if it,s on, cookings out! not very convenient to set up/use for an hour or two, at the price I would be tempted to go the whole way and get a diesel/parrafin heater, a Taylors/Dickinson, which I would have if I spent enough time in the cold to justify the space expence. Bill.

 

[Rivers & creeks]

 

[Poignard]

A new Taylor's is about 4 times the price of the PAN 2000! And it's there all year round occupying valuable space whereas the PAN could be left at home in the summer [unless it was like last year's /forums/images/graemlins/frown.gif].

As it happens, I have a secondhand Taylor's that I was planning to install but seeing the PAN2000 website has made me wonder if it might not be a more practical alternative

Anyway, looks like no-one here has one so I'll have to enquire abroad.

Anyone know the Swedish for "Are they any good"?