Making a Small Candle-Fired Convection Heater for a Tiny Camper
Are we too late for winter posts? I guess that all depends on where you live, or in this case, where you’re taking your tiny camper.
In this video on The Outsider, he makes a heater for his snowmobile camper (that’s a thing?) out of an army ammo can.
He designs it as a convection heater that burns large candles to heat two pipes and uses computer fans to move air from the floor of the camper through the two pipes and out the other side of the heater.
No output from the stove itself goes into the space so there are no risks of gases or oxygen depletion in the tiny wood camper.
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