I think most of the haters here are missing the point. I believe he's talking about conserving your fuel source by not running a 23000 BTU heater if you don't absolutely need to. By holing up in a small interior room, you would probably only need 1 to 3000 BTUs which will use much less fuel per day. Of course you'll still need ventilation. Of course you would need to dress appropriately. I would prefer a center draft kerosene lamp such as an aladdin. I think Aladdin's would burn cleaner with much less fumes, and much more light. Placing a lamp under a flat metal plate with one of those fans that sit on the wood stove, and are powered buy heat might be a good idea too.
Dietz Jupiter 2500 lantern will heat a good size room, you are correct. Let the haters hate, when their body temperature comes down a few degrees, they’ll change their minds and the love will flow.
We just had a 24hr power outage due to severe winter weather. I used five tea lights in a tall-sided tray to heat about 150sf, even with the window open a bit. Before that it was too cold to be out of bed (in layers) without shivering. Five candles probably wouldn't have been enough if my home had had more time to lose heat, or if the temp had gone down 20° more, but regardless I'm a believer. I got 200 6hr candles on Amazon for 18 bucks which is maybe 300 hours if you use five at a time. My kero/oil lantern works just as well and I can carry it around. I've been making vegetable oil lamps and lamp oil/liquid paraffin lamps so I can have alternative/additional fuel if I need it. They make a huge difference as well and use cheap, readily available materials. I've been lighting a veg oil lamp while I make breakfast and it takes the chill off in a minute or two. I use a flat kerosene lamp wick with the veg oil to make a bigger flame, but you can also use several wicks in one veg oil lamp. I got cork and covered it in aluminum foil to float some of the wicks so i wouldn't have to adjust the height. Canola oil is $4/gallon here and basically odorless. (I read that corn oil is harder to light btw) Walmart has tabletop tiki torches right now for a buck, too. You just fill with lamp oil and push the wick down as far as possible. There's no chimney though so you have to account for that. Anyway thanks for this video! It's very clear and direct which I really appreciate.
I used a wide body pickle jar, with a 1 inch wide wick. I took and cut two identical 1 inch long slots in the lid jar. I also added 4 ventilation holes to the lid jar and I added some glass rocks to the bottom of the jar for additional weight and looks. This double wick DIY heater gets very hot and the glass jar itself doesn't get hot at all. The cheapest way that I burn my DIY jar heater is with using 2/3 cooking oil mixed with 1/3 lamp oil. The lamp oil thins out the cooking oil and makes it burn better. I use several DIY wick heater jars to supplement my heat in my TV room.
this heater works great, one must understand that most of the heat will collect near the cealling of the room. a few fans pointed up will circulate all the hot air
I'm sorry, my friend, but a kerosene oil lamp will not satisfactorily heat a room in winter, where I live. It may raise the temperature of a small room by a few degrees, when measured at the ceiling. When winter temperatures are well below freezing and have been for several days, some kerosene HEATERS have a hard time heating a single room. It's just plain science. How much heat must be produced to increase the temperature of x volume (cubic feet) of space by the desired number of degrees? No, I don't have the specific formula handy. I've lived it. Early years were spend on a farm before REA brought power lines to our land. One of my mother's kerosene lamps sits in the center of our kitchen table. Wood supplied energy needed for heating and cooking. Additionally, I collect oil lamps & have quite a few of them, including the canning jar version. Also have 2 kerosene cook stoves, 1 double burner & 1 triple burner. Have both modern (similar to yours) and a much earlier version kero space heaters. Have considerable experience in using all of them in cold weather. Along with many years of heating my home and a small greenhouse with kerosene. (Stand-alone house sized and forced air versions). From an experience standpoint, can only speak based on the climate here in NC. In a home with an energy efficient rating high enough to warrant a discount from our electric coop, an oil lamp will not raise the temperature of a small bedroom (for example) enough to be noticeable, when the outside temperature is well below freezing. The volume of air in the room has to be heated from the top, down, as warm air rises. In closing, look back at history. Oil lamps were used to provide lighting. Fireplaces, wood, coal and oil stoves (heaters) were all used to provide space heating, in the days before electricity & thermostats. Yes, I've used oil lamps and lanterns to warm my hands. But that doesn't mean they produce enough heat to warm an average sized room to a material degree.
Oldtimer Lee Thanks for the comment, but I'd have to disagree. I've ran one latern in my small 8x10 office with the heat turned off and it was notably warmer than the rest of the house. I should have taken temperature readings, but it was more than a couple degrees. I think the principles are having a small room, and very good insulation. In a survival situation, I would put insulation in the windows and board them. Although the 8x10 room seems very small, it will keep everyone warm when not performing activities. This would indeed keep people alive if they do not have access to a fireplace, wood stove, or large kerosene heater. Although I don't have exact measurements, consider this: Commercial space heaters for one room application run around 3,000-5,000 BTU. An aladdin lantern (as per this site - www.aladdinlamps.info/burning.htm) puts off 2,000+ BTU depending on the wick height). If you run 2 kerosene lanterns at the same time, you are in fact equaling that of a space heater.
+Oldtimer Lee i live in pHilladelphia. i put two oil lamps filled with kerosene in my bedrooms. my auto on my heater goes off because it gets so warm. I have a kerosene heater in my living room and it SAVES us tons of money and we are always nice and toasty warm. EVEN when it is 20 degrees outside. Also, in my area when power goes out. Others are without heat and light, but we never are ! Because the Kerosene heaters use no power!
crazey4utube Statement still stands. A flat wick kerosene lamp will not satisfactorily heat a room, in winter, where I live. Should have added "without another primary heat source, nearby." If a flat wick kerosene lamp could provide enough BTUs to function, as space heater, you wouldn't need a space heater in your living room. You'd simply add another oil lamp. Next time the power goes out for several days, in 20 degree winter weather, try just lighting a flat wick lamp, per room. Will you need to also use your kerosene space heater to keep your living space above freezing? Around here, we'd have fire up our kero space heaters to help keep our pipes from freezing, during an extended power failure. Flat wick lamps simply do not produce enough BTU's to prevent that from happening. FWIW, this area has experienced ice storms that has taken out the power for 2 weeks on more than one occasion.
not disagreeing. just say i have 2 in my bedroom and it trows off alot of heat such that my auto on my house heat always kicks off. saves us money.. it is a supplement not the main heat
8 of those with 1 inch wicks will heat up my 200 foot space in a metal on metal shed, especially if u have 6 to 8 red bricks or a 5 gallon clay pot on top. the more u can heat up the better the BTUs seem to be, not saying they go up, it just feels that way with the radiant heat coming off the bricks.
I dunno. I like the small boxy 10,000btu kerosene heaters. Heats an entire room up and has some safety features lamps lack. Uses about half as much as the big 20,000btu ones you show.
this works great !!! raises the rooom temp by a few degrees . I used 2 at a time, room temp was 25.6 degrees and went up to 29.1. I placed the 2 under a pole mounted fan. I wonder if diesel trated with 90% rubbing alcohal would be more cost efective , This is what some people use in a kerosene heater
You can only burn what you can GET easily. Kerosene may be impossible to get if the SHTF. If YOU are without, power odds are so is your local gas station, that sells kerosene. Which means they couldn't pump it out of their underground tanks. And if they could, they would be charging an outrageous price per gallon, after vigilanties or profiteers took control of the station. Unless you have your own giant storage tanks, that you can afford to fill BEFORE, sh#t happens -forget kerosene. A big LP tank is a far better option, that can last an entire winter heating season. But even that would be impossible to get a refill in a genuine SHTF situation. Wood or even Coal, are far better options for long term survival.
Your kerosene lamp, if you don't need the light, skip the glass chimney. Use a metal tube as the chimney (just like your big heater does). Take a tin can, turn it upside down, a bottle opener/can opener to make several holes around the top side and the very top. Light the wick and drop on the chimney. It'll produce three times the heat as a glass, open top lamp. I do this in my shed. If you need to soften the heat and distribute it better, drop a small flower pot on upside down. Don't do any of this with kids or pets I the house. It will get knocked over.
@@annehollier4632 over the can. If using the flower pot, place many more holes in the can chimney top or cut the bottom (top) off the can to make an open tube since the pot will gather the heat to radiate.
i seen in russia they just smack a meter or so long metal chimney tube on top of a hurricane lantern and heat with that because the metal flue gets hot and heats the room better than just air from flame. so you might want to get that to stick on top. cause what you have here is just a diy petroleum lamp you dubbed a heater. but it's not a heater per se.
not sure that would work well in my neck of the woods but great idea. would be very useful to keep in the car as an emergency. unless I missed it, any smoke and lot of smell from the jar heater? any more or less than the big heaters thanks
ok so im burning this k1 stuff in my lamp. and when i turned it off. it smelled horrible. and when i looked at the bottle thinking that all kerosene was the same. i read k1 heating oil. soim wondering if need to swap it to make it smell better. or you have have a answer for the bad smell?
Id install 4 wicks on a paint can type lid and make a hardware cloth ring around the top to glow orange and help with lateral distribution of heat...... got some ideas.
Jar lamps aren't very stable.. too small & narrow bases. A better way is to buy Dietz lanterns... not expensive, and last for a lifetime if not abused. I like the "Air Pilot" and the "Jupiter" models... the latter has a large capacity & was made to be able to help heat greenhouses.... And they'll burn outside in wind for lighting. Just my 2 cents... ( but unless you're in Florida, you're better off with a real kero heater . )
I have 6 jupiters. 6 of the smaller diets and 2 of the lantern stoves. 2 of the jupiters will heat a 14x30 room pretty good. I read once that they put out around 1400 btu's each
Kerosene isn't a healthy way to heat a room. A lot of carbon monoxide and hydrocarbons come off burning kerosene. Nice DIY lamp for camping, but why not just buy a pre-made kerosene lantern for a few dollars more? It's likely to have more stability in the base making it safer to use.
Thanks for the video. Remember if you are burning something you create carbon monoxide. Blow out your heater and let some fresh air in as needed. A CO detector would be good, too!
Remind your viewers that they can go to a second hand store and buy lamps and all accessories for a couple of dollars. Also, "lamp fuel" can be bought in 5 gallon ans cheaply too.
Five gallon cans of k1 cost at least $40 plus 9.6% tax here in the Seattle area. I can buy it at Fred Meyer on the first Tuesday of every month and get the senior discount, 10%, so basically a flat $8 a gallon. I can’t find it cheaper than that anywhere around here.
@@rickmanley767 some gas stations have it. It's about $4 a gallon around me right now. You might be able to buy a 55 gallon drum from a fuel distributor.
That is not a heater it is a lantern! Just buy a lantern! Don't use it to heat since if you knock it over it will possibly burn your house down! They sell small kero heaters. That heater he has is 23,000 BTU and it is for 1000 sq ft!
1 Oil lamp won't heat Your Home.... Or a Room I speak for that fact. Get a something that will heat up ur house or room.. have a Good day and God bless and Thank Jesus for the saving
for survival?!? id say u cant BUY things if "it hits the fan" cuz where u gonna get kerosene from if there isnt any stores? id say stick to primative technology if it went south with this world. any type of "gas" would almost b last priority wen its survival...
Correct. His lamp can burn diesel (cotton wick) and it can burn cooking oil but eventually if stores are not an option, you'll be burning wood for heat. Buy a franklin stove while the stores are still open.
OMG is this a joke? If you think one of these will heat even the smallest room all night when it is 20° outside then you have something wrong upstairs. Use common sense people.
That's something you're just assuming, or did you go ahead and try it? Making a claim based on no experimentation versus a man who clearly has done the experimentation leaves you in a pretty weak position. Also I use something similar and it will do the job, which is survival by the way not comfort.
I have a sears kerosene heater/fanco and 6 perfection heaters, I don't know how much kerosene is in your area, here its $4.00 a gallon and that will really break the pocket book. I call kerosene WORTHLESS OVERPRICED SHIT!!! NO NEED FOR IT TO BE THAT HIGH!! i been burning ruby diesel in my kerosene heaters, $2.39 a gallon, but with the FANCO & Sears i do a DRY burn after each tank full of RUBY DIESEL and it really gets rid of the tar buildup and to me Its a way to cut the price almost in half $4.00 gallon overpriced worhtless kerosene OR ruby diesel at $2.39 a gallon, So far burning red dye diesel in my kerosene heaters and do a dry burn after each use, the diesel doesn't bother the fiberglass wicks. i am very happy with the results.
