Tea Light Tent Heater

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Tea light tent heater.

This was definitely a worthwhile project and will be very useful in our tent during winter camping. 10 coupon applied at checkout save 10 with coupon. Tea lights are made of paraffin wax and are commonly about 38 mm in diameter and 16 mm high and burn for 3 to 5 hours per wikipedia. Overall it beats occasionally having to start the car to run the heater.

While the flower pot does increase the effectiveness of the candles as heaters a few calculations can show how little heat it actually produces. Light your tea lights and place them close together in the middle of the roasting tray. Also when using tea lights and coffee cans for at home emergency heat a long handled barbecue lighter is much better than short matches to light the tea lights in the bottom of the coffee can. However a candle heater is more than enough to warm up some icy fingers.

A small space heater capable of heating a small room is 5000 btu hr. Use an end table that stands well under the height of your tent. Heater 4k 9k btu portable radiant tent heater comes with a hose that attaches to propane tanks so you can run this all night long in a 225 square foot space with no problem. So let s suppose a space heater would take one hour to heat the room up.

And make you feel a bit warmer as well. The tea lights run for over 3 5hrs and cost as little as 0 99 cents for a 20 count pack. 4 7 out of 5 stars 6 846. This also comes with a little kink which is worked in for safety but it depends on how you view it.

Thus you actually would need fifty candles to heat the room as efficiently as a space heater instead of just four. I ll get actual temp readouts soon. However this method will have the most success when used in a smaller tent. According to wikipedia a single tealight has an energy output of about 100 btu hr.

Using tea light candles to heat your tent although it may seem like an unlikely solution tea light candles can prove to be a great heat source.