Thinking of buying this unit too. Has auto oxygen shutoff in contrast to
the Coleman versions. Anybody have experience with this gadget, good or
bad?

-Greg

Greg,
I have the Mr. Heater Little Buddy on my boat. It works great.
Haven't had a problem with Carbon Monoxide. I've got Carbon Monoxide
detects onboard and they've never chirped once while running the heater
all day and night. I run mine off a 20 lb tank. Running it on high
when I get home from work until the next morning (about 14hrs) I get
about 4 days run time out of the tank. The manufacturer states that it
will give 50hrs run time on high and 100 hrs on low off a 20lb tank,
and I have found those figures to be pretty accurate.
I can tell you this, that one Mr Heater Little Buddy heats my boat
much better than my three built-in electric heaters on the boat. It
also helps take the dampness out of the air, which the electic heat
didn't touch.

Dan
M/V Sea Ranch

NeptunesJester wrote:
Greg,
I have the Mr. Heater Little Buddy on my boat. It works great.
Haven't had a problem with Carbon Monoxide. I've got Carbon Monoxide
detects onboard and they've never chirped once while running the heater
all day and night. I run mine off a 20 lb tank. Running it on high
when I get home from work until the next morning (about 14hrs) I get
about 4 days run time out of the tank. The manufacturer states that it
will give 50hrs run time on high and 100 hrs on low off a 20lb tank,
and I have found those figures to be pretty accurate.
I can tell you this, that one Mr Heater Little Buddy heats my boat
much better than my three built-in electric heaters on the boat. It
also helps take the dampness out of the air, which the electic heat
didn't touch.

Dan
M/V Sea Ranch

The by product of burning propane is water. Your little buddy is
putting lots of water into the air.

You know, I thought about that when I first noticed last year that it
felt drier with the propane heat. Combustion creates water, but it
actually feels like a 'drier' heat. Its probably just because the
Little Buddy heats so much better that the relative humidity is less
even though there is physically more water in the air.

"NeptunesJester" wrote in message
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Greg,
I have the Mr. Heater Little Buddy on my boat. It works great.
Haven't had a problem with Carbon Monoxide. I've got Carbon Monoxide
detects onboard and they've never chirped once while running the heater
all day and night. I run mine off a 20 lb tank. Running it on high
when I get home from work until the next morning (about 14hrs) I get
about 4 days run time out of the tank. The manufacturer states that it
will give 50hrs run time on high and 100 hrs on low off a 20lb tank,
and I have found those figures to be pretty accurate.
I can tell you this, that one Mr Heater Little Buddy heats my boat
much better than my three built-in electric heaters on the boat. It
also helps take the dampness out of the air, which the electic heat
didn't touch.

Dan
M/V Sea Ranch

Bought one to compliment the red dot heat my 25 footer has on it (dealer
didn't know it). Anyway, on a 38 degree night, my wife and I got it toasty,
turned it off and crawled into the cave (aft cabin). Was just fine all
night. Given that, I see no reason to leave it on all night. It does have
the oxygen shutoff but why chance it?

-Greg

"NeptunesJester" wrote in
oups.com:

I've got Carbon Monoxide
detects onboard and they've never chirped once while running the heater
all day and night.

Is now a good time to point out that this detector does NOT detect the
presence of POISONOUS Carbon DIOXIDE this heater pours out as it consumes
all the OXYGEN required for life?

It's BURNING fuel, using oxygen from the air and pouring its crap into the
exhaust THAT EVERYONE IS BREATHING. Well, Duhh.....

Humans are too stupid to use UNVENTED heaters. They should be outlawed.
The LEAST they could do is put a button on the side of them you had to
press every 10 minutes or they would shut themselves off so stupid humans
couldn't SLEEP with the damned thing killing the innocent children.

--
Larry