Portable indoor butane heaters

You have to keep a window open in the sleeper to use it, it produces a good amount of heat but also a good amount of CO2 and water.

 

The RVers say they work very well, but eventually break. Also with butane/propane heaters they generate moisture while they heat. You have to ventilate well or you will have moisture problems.

 

That is a propane heater, not a butane heater. I've used them overnight in a camper with no problems. You'll get advice ranging from 'you could die' to 'you'll probably live'. My advice? You'll probably live.

 

No.

I have a rule nothing that contains a fuel supply like Butane etc under pressure in the sleeper. You cannot exchange fresh air fast enough to prevent poisoning and eventual death via displacement of oxygen in your blood.

What I do instead is carry a pair of Atlantic Storm Lanterns that are enclosed, with a wick and carry maybe a couple of cups worth of lamp oil or similar. Light them off, open the vents and one window for airflow and corral the heat as best as youre able. It's not much, but with a absolute dead truck, provided you are not hazmat at all, you might survive the night with one or two of these. Storing lamp oil itself is a complication, best addressed by carefully selecting seriously strong containers capable of making sure that it will never leak or get breached bouncing around in the side box.

 

Sounds like a good way to get CO poisoning...

Just have the espar or webasto installed, it's one of the fastest roi in this business, and a must have for operating in winter, especially up here in the great white north. Have it done when you're on vacation. Easy.

 

That doesn't inspire confidence.

 

Carbon Monoxide Poisoning: Unvented Gas Space Heating Appliances (AEN-204) • Department of Agricultural and Biosystems Engineering • Iowa State University

 

No way I would run something that emits carbon monoxide in an area as small as a truck sleeper. Yeah, you can crack the windows, but doesn't that defeat the purpose of the heater in the first place?

 

They make co2 detectors. I had a a fire alarm co2 detecror in my sleeper. I idled my truck or used the bunk heater in winter. Every year you hear about truck fires or guys dying from co2 poisoning while I ideleing. It cost like 20 bucks at Walmart.