[jay moley]

Can anyone recommend a heater/fan to put in the van when it goes below zero?

I don't have electric to plug into.

Thanks

[colin bird]

Hi mate bit confused in what your saying as in you want a heater or a fan to put into your van but you don’t have an electricity supply ?
The only suggestion I have is get a generator as in petrol

[simon w]

Any good?

https://vanjunkies.co.uk/products/yilkar-diesel-air-heater-yh2-standard-kit

https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/166725990981?mkevt=1&mkcid=1&mkrid=710-53481-19255-0&campid=5338365712&toolid=20006&customid=EB297277384&

[jay moley]

Hi mate bit confused in what your saying as in you want a heater or a fan to put into your van but you don’t have an electricity supply ?
The only suggestion I have is get a generator as in petrol

Something to prevent my kit freezing. Yeah I live in a flat so cant plug a normal heater in.

[jay moley]

Any good?

https://vanjunkies.co.uk/products/yilkar-diesel-air-heater-yh2-standard-kit

https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/166725990981?mkevt=1&mkcid=1&mkrid=710-53481-19255-0&campid=5338365712&toolid=20006&customid=EB297277384&

Can't pay £500 for it.

Second option you have to fit an outlet to it for air to escape, you cant just put it in the van.

[simon w]

Any good?

https://vanjunkies.co.uk/products/yilkar-diesel-air-heater-yh2-standard-kit

https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/166725990981?mkevt=1&mkcid=1&mkrid=710-53481-19255-0&campid=5338365712&toolid=20006&customid=EB297277384&

Can't pay £500 for it.

Second option you have to fit an outlet to it for air to escape, you cant just put it in the van.

Small business loan or business overdraft facility?

[CleanClear]

Second option you have to fit an outlet to it for air to escape, you cant just put it in the van.

Without access to electric your options are limited. There are some small camping type heaters that take a push fit butane gas canister but they're not very good. There's also parrafin greenhouse heaters available from B+Q again they're not very good.

These heaters are very good, but they do carry a fire risk. I've used them myself but never been fully comfortable with them, and of course you'd need a gas bottle:

https://www.ukplanettools.co.uk/tough-master-gas-heater-4-5-kw-stand-piezo-igniter-lip-on-tm-gh454pc.html?

You can find similar on Ebay.

This heater as linked above https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/166725990981?  Is an excellent cost effective heater. Like you say.. you can't just put it in the van it needs an outlet for the exhaust. So your option is to fit one and fit an exhaust outlet. If security is not an issue it might be possible for you to leave a door cracked open and run the exhaust out

[Spruce]

Like the o/p, over the years there have been the occasional winter heating question by those who aren't able to run a cable out to the van. I recall one question about using the leisure battery in the van to keep everything from freezing up. Most of us knew that using a leisure battery wouldn't work, but we had no figures to justify our answer - well I didn't anyway.

I have a 105 amp lithium phosphate battery on the van.

I also have a 700w 230v inverter recently purchased. I also have an 800 watt, 220v heater with an added frostat controller. Many years ago it was a wall heater which I have modified by adding a temperature controller, an on/off illuminated rocker switch and fitted it to a metal frame with caster wheels.

I plugged the heater into the inverter the other day to see what would happen. The inverter would only deliver 710 watt with the heater switched on. To supply that heater, the LifePO4 battery was delivering 58 amps to the inverter.

In theory, this combination would drain the battery in just less than 2 hours.

I also learnt the Chinese made inverter isn't able to live up to its advertised specs. Drawing 710 watts took about 3 minutes before the unit identified a fault and switched the inverter off. The inverter's cooling fan did kick on, but the inverter was pretty hot before the fan activated. The other thing is that the supplied cables got rather warm as well. I left the unit connected up, and the inverter fault light did switch off and the inverter started to supply power to the heater. I switched the unit off just after that, as the supply cables just go hotter, as they never fully cooled when the heater was off.

[mac74]

I switch on my Propex Hs2000 when i know im working the next day, runs off gas and has a thermostat so you can use it at its lowest setting to save on the gas. This is the best thing to use if you cant get a electric feed to the van, like on road parking.

[Splash and dash]

I switch on my Propex Hs2000 when i know im working the next day, runs off gas and has a thermostat so you can use it at its lowest setting to save on the gas. This is the best thing to use if you cant get a electric feed to the van, like on road parking.

Carrying gas can be an insurance issue diesel air heaters are very cheap to run and are connected into the vehicle fuel tank and not to expensive to run and don’t carry the same dangers as the gas heaters .

[windowswashed]

Bu y an Ecoflow or similar  solar battery unit for around £300 then you  run an electrical low temperature heater from the unit in your van and charge it when flat from the house during the day. Buy a refurbished one with 500-750 watt plus.