Gas Light Mantles

Very pleased with this product.Good quality.

Very pleased with the price of this product.More detail ...

Match your Mr Heater with the right Accessories

I've been fumbling stumbling and bumbling along trying to obtain the "right" combination of MR HEATER items to allow me to use their BIG BUDDY product. I strongly suggest that you decide on which heater you want then go to www.mrheater.com and pull up the web page for that heater. Find the FAQ section for that heater. Read through the "problems" very closely. You will find there are valid reasons for those problems to occur. MR HEATER explains and provides solutions to those problems in the FAQ. One thing in my humble opinion is missing in the descriptions ~ If you are using larger than 20-lb tanks you may need a "regulator" to control the pressure from the tank to your heater or other small appliance. Check with MR HEATER Tech Support before you run into problems. Be patient and be very clear about your setup. Everyone I have contacted has been very helpful and responsive to my questions. MR HEATER also provides information on the SAFETY RECALL situation with a possible solution on what to do with replacing a faulty heater.More detail ...

propane heater

exactly what we needed. only when you first turn it on it makes a strange humming noise for about 30 seconds to 1 min.More detail ...

Worked well for three months

I bought this heater 3 months ago and it worked fine at first. I had used it about 20-30 times when it began decreasing in its heat output until only the high setting would keep the unit running (the thermocouple would not sense enough heat on the med and lo settings). Not wanting to deal with the hassle of sending it back and having some experience with these things I accessed the main jet and carefully cleaned it and the threaded chamber it's in reassembled but to no avail. Same sluggish operation. Long story short I disassembled deeper into the unit being carefull but in the end I scrounged some parts off another heater and got it working properly. This is an example of another pc. of huooey from China. Too bad it's the only heater like it out there taht I know of...appropriate for certain tasks.More detail ...

Thee best tent heater on the market.... period !

I purchased this catalytic propane heater to heat my tent for winter camping with my son for his Cub Scout winter camps. I tried the heater out on a three night camp out the last week of October 2006 at 7000 feet in the San Bernardino Mountains. Those nights dipped in the high 20's. The heater worked very well with only a few concerns which were easily overcome. I placed the lit heater in my tent well in advance of retiring for the evening and 6 hours later replaced the emptied propane cylinder right away and re-started the heater for the remainder of the morning. My son and I were nice and warm when we went to bed and stayed warm all the night through. Sure is nice to be able to stand up and dress in a warm tent in the morning. Next we will be trying the heater out at a snow camp in February with temps expected to be in the low teens.



Reading the directions dismissed any apprehensions of opertion. And yes as another reviewer commented... the unit does throw out a small fire ball when first lit. YIKES! However should you read the instructions BEFORE USE... you are forewarned about this and the reader is instructed NOT to light the heater facing anyone/pets/tent or indoors because of this issue. Instructions are not placed with the item for looks you know you have to read them! OK it spits out a small fire ball at first. Big deal... nothing too intense that an average human can not adapt to.



As for the "hot oil smell" noted by another reviewer... yes there is a "smell" that emits from the operating unit. How one describes that smell will vary. Each individual person's sensitivity to that smell will also vary. To me the "smell" was simply like sightly hot metal as with any other heater and faint enough that it did not bother me at all. However should one be rather sensitive to the "smell" it may prove uncomfortable.



The battery operated fan that blows the heated air away from the unit is awesome. The fan does not blow the volume of air like a fan on your desk or counter top might. The fan is much smaller yet it does greatly aid in the ciculation of the heat. Without the fan on the heat is simply radiated out and the heat is not evenly distributed throughout the tent. One huge issue with the fan... it eats batteries like a child eats candy. Two "D" batteries will run the fan for one full night. That's it no more. Recharable batteries are strongly recommended to keep the battery budget in check because the fan really needs to be used.



Some advise... 1.) Light the heater OUTSIDE of your tent (remember there will be small fire ball emiting from the heater when it is lit). 2.) Start the unit and place in your tent at least one full hour before going to bed. That way your tent will be nice and warm when you go to bed. 3.) Keep a replacement propane cylinder close by for replacement in the early morning hours. Should you allow the tent to cool before replacing the propane cylinder and re-igniting the heater it will take a very very long time to warm the tent up. Remeber... nights are coldest the hours just before dawn (usally) which is much colder than when you started to warm your tent up the previous evening. Also the larger the tent (or area being heated) the longer it will take to bring up and maintain the temp. I am going to buy a second heater for my large three room tent. This way I can start one heater well before going to bed to heat the tent and then 6 hours before I plan to wake up I can start the second heater. With two heaters operating at the same time in my large tent the heat will be easily maintained (hopfully even with winds) but also the first heater will will run out of fuel and shut off in the night and the second heater will continue heating maintaining the temp without me getting up to change out the propane cylinder. 4.) Place the heater in an area of your tent in which nothing will come in contact with it. The heater grid gets very hot and will burn you or any other item that contacts it.



All in all this ProCat Catalytic Propane Heater is a great heater. It is larger than others on the market (the heating head is larger in diameter) including other Coleman brand heaters. It appears to be the only one with a fan to assist in heat distribution. It puts out a good amount of heart. The only serious failing on this ProCat heater is that the output can not be regulated. The heater is either on full blast or completly off.



Please note though the more ventilated your tent the less effective any heater will be in heating such a tent let alone this particular heater. Thus should you have a "summer family camping tent" that is very well ventilated either consider purchasing two heaters to heat your tent or in addition to this heater purchase a tent that is designed for cold weather (which is less vented than summer family tents).More detail ...

great green gas.

I bought this for my kjw m9 which btw is a great gun. this green gas worked perfectly with it. it has a great sound to it when it it shot i recommend this green gasMore detail ...

THIS IS NOT GREEN GAS

DO NOT BUY THIS IF YOU'RE LOOKING FOR GREEN GAS.



First off the product I received does NOT look what the picture shows. The bottle appears to have a wrap around paper label covering whatever it is.



Second the bottle says compressed air. NO WHERE ON THE BOTTLE DOES IT EXPLICITLY SAY THAT IT CONTAINS PROPANE. GREEN GAS IS PROPANE. THIS PRODUCT DOES NOT APPEAR TO CONTAIN PROPANE.



I AM *VERY* DISAPPOINTED. IN 10 YEARS OF AMAZON PATRONAGE THIS IS MY FIRST NEGATIVE PURCHASE.More detail ...

Great Product

This heater is excellent and the perfect fit for a certain set of requirements.

If you have electricity use an electric heater. Don't bother with the hassel of propane. The cost isn't too different and the hassel factor is much higher than electricity.

I also don't recommend using the small canisters. That's an inconvinient way to go as well.

BUT. If you don't have power and need a cheap safe heat source that you can run while you sleep this is the best one made. Buy the 12' hose place a 20lb propane tank outside and run this heater all night with just a small crack in a window or door (just in case!). You will get > 100 hours of heat out of a tank of propane! Less than a buck to run it all night.

Highly recommended under the right circumstances.More detail ...

Super nice heater for Popup Campers Travel Trailers and RV's

I purchased the Olympian Wave 6 Catalytic Heater for use in a Starcraft Popup Camper. The camper has an 11' box so it's a large camper when opened up. I had already installed an OEM furnace and it worked great but the blower fan in these furnaces are noisey use alot of 12 volt battery power and the furnace itself uses quite a bit of propane.



The Wave 6 Heater fits the use in this camper perfectly. I purchased the feet for it as well as the available protective cover for storage (I highly recommend you buy the cover because you must keep the catalytic mat clean). I had a 10' flexible rubber propane hose made and T'd that into the existing fitting under the fold down sink cabinet. A small brass ball valve is located at the T in order to turn off/on propane flow to the heater. At the other end of the 10' hose is a propane quick coupler and this allows the hose to quickly be "snapped" on to the fitting that I installed on the heater. When not in use the heater stowes under the dinette seat.



It takes just a few minutes to get the heater out before going to bed and set it up. Per the manufacturer's instructions I open the roof vent and one of the solid panels on the screen door about an inch.



The heater lights quickly and in about 5min is fully "cooking." Set on medium it will keep the camper 71*F inside at an outside tempurature of 51*F. I leave it run all night and it keeps us toasty warm.



A word of advice on using heaters in campers; do your homework if you're worried about carbon monoxide poisoning. And by that I mean call the manufacturer and get your information straight from their technical support or even their engineers. That way you have actual data and instead of all the story telling that is so common on many RV website forums.



Bottom line: This is an outstanding product that's extremely well designed and built. It's easy to use super efficient quiet and just cranks out the heat!More detail ...

Camco Olympian Wave 8 Heater

The unit has been used twice and works perfectly. In addition when I had a question about the unit the tech support folks were right there with speedy courteous information. For their size these heaters do not have the raw output of something like a "Buddy Heater." However there are some big differences. Buddy Heaters do not work above 7000 feet. Therefore of little use in Colorado. Second these heaters burn exceptionally clean requiring very little ventillation. Previously I was using a radiant kerosene heater to keep my enclosed trailer warm during hunting season. It took huge amounts of ventillation to keep the carbon monoxide detector from going off (read "to stay alive".) A clean efficient burning process is critical for me when I use the heater for my hunting trailer. In addition because these heaters hook up to a large propane tank they can run for a very long time with no input from the user. I am very satisfied with this unit.More detail ...