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Radiant heater OK for shop use?
I have a propane tank-top radiant heater (Dyna-Glo brand, purchased at
Home Depot). In the instructions, it says not to use indoors. However, I've seen other such heaters listed as OK for indoor use. Is there something different about this specific heater which makes it unsafe, or is this company just more lawsuit-averse than others? Thanks, Kelly |
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ups.com... I have a propane tank-top radiant heater (Dyna-Glo brand, purchased at Home Depot). In the instructions, it says not to use indoors. However, I've seen other such heaters listed as OK for indoor use. Is there something different about this specific heater which makes it unsafe, or is this company just more lawsuit-averse than others? Thanks, Carbon monoxide from improper burning could ruin your whole day. Kicking it over without an automatic fuel cutoff might be a bit dicey as well. |
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Australopithecus scobis wrote: On Sat, 08 Jan 2005 15:41:14 -0600, John A. Weeks III wrote: your body gets low on oxygen, and it starts using carbon dioxide in its place, leading to you going to sleep and never waking up (He meant carbon monoxide. Hemoglobin just loves CO, something like 200 times better than O2. Carbon dioxide excess will mess you up too, just not as bad or as fast as CO.) No, I meant CO2. A catalytic heater uses gas to create heat without burning. The waste products are water and CO2. If you are burning the gas, then you get CO. The catalytic heaters are advertised as "safe" since there is no flame, but they use Oyxgen. This reduces the oxygen level in the air, which allows your body to start using CO2 in place of the O2, which can cause brain damage or kill you. The big issue is getting enough fresh air when you use one of these things, or having an oxygen depletion sensor. I'd never suggest using an open flame heater in an enclosed location, so those are not even a question of being used. -john- -- ================================================== ==================== John A. Weeks III 952-432-2708 Newave Communications http://www.johnweeks.com ================================================== ==================== |
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"Australopithecus scobis" wrote in message
news On Sun, 09 Jan 2005 23:40:03 -0600, John A. Weeks III wrote: No, I meant CO2. But, but, your body won't start using CO2 "in place of" O2. Most you could do is start driving aerobic metabolism backwards, but the Km is such that you'd be dead of other CO2 effects before that caused any harm. Really. Carbon monoxide does directly replace O2 in hemoglobin. I'm not disagreeing with you that CO2 in high concentrations is a Bad Thing. I'm quibbling about the biochemistry. Well, quibble a bit on the physiology, too. Normally our breathing trigger is CO2 level, so a rise in CO2 would cause an increased rate of breathing - hyperventilation, rather than the insidious falling away that hemoglobin's affinity for CO would cause. Easy to recover from, since CO2 can be blown out of the blood fairly quickly, while CO hangs in for a long time even on 100% oxygen. Now if you're a COPD type, triggering on O2 level, 'nother story. |
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