In my experience diesel fuel has a very short storage life. No1 diesel and kerosene are better but #2 diesel is mixed with biodiesel and it starts growing algae in just a few months. The advantage to propane is it has an unlimited shelf life. The advantage to diesel is your could siphon fuel from every military vehicle in a shtf situation. Probably better have both.
@@GunsAmericaTube can you make a video doing maintenance on the lantern? The unsuspecting person who runs old #2 diesel through the lantern will need to know how to clean the generator when it gets plugged up.
Nice video, thank you for making this ! I have the Britelyt and Petromax versions and these type of lanterns are awesome for shtf scenarios I would think. The new low sulpher diesel works very well and you are right there is very little smell involved. I give the pre-heater 45-60 seconds (longer in cold weather, adding pressure as required)
I have exact lantern and had essentially zero luck with diesel. There was fire but so much black smoke the globe was opaque in minutes but it works wonderfully on kerosene.
Just ordered a Sea Anchor 950 from your link w/ all of the extras. I like Dietz hurricane lanterns for “quiet light” but wanted a bright work lamp. Looking forward to receiving it.
So the Sea Anchor is just another Petromax 829 copy. The stainless burners are problematic because the steel expands when hot and damages the brass threads, not because the ceramic ones breaks
All wrong , you have to burn the new wick completly and than wait until the wick glows a little with pre heating , takes prox 1 to 2 minutes , and than slowly turn the valve , otherwise you get flames .
I was very surprised when I bought this new low sulpher diesel and tried it in 2 pressure lanterns- it had virtually NO smell to it. And it burned brighter than Crown Kerosene and at half the price ( Which, unfortunately is changing)
