On Tue, 30 Jul 2002, Andrew Fox wrote: > The CO problem that has been responisble for killing many people from > using an unvented catalytic heater in their vans or RV's. How do you know > how much fresh air needs to enter? It may be okay to use while you're > awake but sleeping with one of these things on is downright stupid. I'd assume what happens is the output is H2O at first, but as the oxygen in the vehicle gets depleted the combustion becomes incomplete and CO starts to appear. At very least it seems like a good, loud CO alarm would be mandatory, but I'd want one of those with *any* heater. I personally would not want to use any non-vented combustion heater in such a small space. _ _ __ _ _ _| | | | David M. Brodbeck (N8SRE) Ypsilanti, MI / _` | | | | | | +----------------------------------------------------- | (_| | |_| | | | @ cyberspace.org \__, |\__,_|_|_| "Geekdom is fantastic at being AGAINST something, and |___/ it's hopeless at being FOR something." -- Andrew Orlowski in The Register. |
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