Portable Solar Energy Heaters
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How to bring heat to tack room?
I have a barn and 10 acres about 15 minutes from my house. It is starting to cold! The only real shelter from the cold is my tack room. Its about 12ftx12ft. It is completely sheet rocked and insulated.
My problem lies with the only electricity for the barn is solar power! It is also on DC power. There is not enough energy for an electric heater. So I have to use some kind of portable heater that runs off of something other then electricity. So my options are propane, butane and karoseen. I am worried about fire risk, and fumes. Which is the safest and most economical?
I spend almost every waking moment at the barn, and riding horses. I live in Texas so the cold is not that extreme, but it is still cold.
Can’t you have your barn wired for regular A/C house current, like everybody else does these days? Our barn has that, and while we don’t heat it, we do have a heater which we sometimes use in the office. That would solve your problem permanently, because you could then use a ceramic heater in the tackroom, like the ones I use to heat my house ( I live in central DE, and it really gets COLD here in the winter) without worrying about fire or fumes. Ceramic heaters are electric and don’t pollute- and they have safety devices built into them which shut them off if they overheat or get knocked over. In addition, most of these heaters have timers and automatic temperature regulators, which means you can set them at a certain temperature and they will automatically cycle on and off as needed to maintain that temperature. I do that with the ones in the front part of the house, and it works well.
You can use a kerosene heater as your second choice, but you must find a way to vent it to the outside air, or you will run the risk of CO poisoning from the fumes it creates. The same is true for both propane and butane. The main problem with this kind of heater other than fire risk is COST- none of these heaters are cheap to operate. Kerosene heaters in particular can get really pricey, because they run on jet fuel. ( All jet aircraft run on kerosene rather than gasoline, because kerosene is less explosive when under pressure, as it is when it’s in an aircraft’s wing tanks.) As you know, the price of kerosene is tied directly to the cost of crude oil, and the more expensive oil is, the more expensive it will be. Whatever you decide to do in the end, make sure the heater is installed in such a way as to prevent anything flammable from getting near it when it’s on. It also goes without saying that you need to establish a rule that the heater is to be shut off and or unplugged when not in use or when you are not in the barn, for safety’s sake. There’s been more than one barn and house fire which has been started by an unattended heater which got too hot.
I hope this helps you.
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