Diesel Heaters

[Dave]

Headed up to the Easter Sierras for a long weekend so I figured it was time to try one of these cheap diesel heaters from Amazon. Reviews were decent, so I grabbed this one.

Silvel HD1-D1

 

[Dave]

Test runs were promising, on level 10 it gets pretty hot and the fan speed (10 levels) pushes a decent amount of air. We’ll see how it does camped out at 4,200 feet this weekend.

 

[Dave]

This thing worked great over 4 days in the eastern sierras. Night time temps in the 30’s, ran all night without issue. Very quiet and the fuel tank is big enough to go all night.

 

[Dave]

Forgot to add, on 10 this thing will turn a tent into a sweat lodge in no time!

 

[Trump]

Forgot to add, on 10 this thing will turn a tent into a sweat lodge in no time!

How do you think this would do in my Flippac? It would be nice to do something integrated instead of the Mr. Buddy now that these have become so affordable. The unit you had in your Tacoma was nice, but those things were/are spendy.

 

[Dave]

How do you think this would do in my Flippac? It would be nice to do something integrated instead of the Mr. Buddy now that these have become so affordable. The unit you had in your Tacoma was nice, but those things were/are spendy.

I think these are changing the game. Very easy to use one of these as a “built in”.

 

[Trump]

I think these are changing the game. Very easy to use one of these as a “built in”.

Yeah, if I could have a self contained heater like this that could be strapped down and connected to permanent plumbing on the truck, but easily disconnected and used elsewhere... that might make it worth the time and money to me. Diesel as a heating fuel makes way more sense to me than propane, and I happen to have about 250 gals of heating oil on property that I can use.