What has made you Angry Today???????

[Winnie]

$129! Almost looks like a scam. The first time I used it would be well away from anything flamable and I would have fire fighting equipment close to hand.

That is what they are worth. It's a direct Chinese copy of either an Eberspacher or a Webasto unit. I have one in my caravan and it is unreal.
Safety first though, only use with a good carbon monoxide alarm with either the Chinese or German product.

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[MB]

Ask @AB about his $2,000+ Webasto/Kimberley portable diesel heater unit. Mine has thankfully worked flawlessly but his somehow blew a seal and pumped his swag chockers full of diesel fumes
Lucky he wasn’t in it at the time......two full racks of AB smokey ribs otherwise


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[Winnie]

Yeah that's the exact reason the CO alarm is needed. All it takes is for 2 seals to fail and you will simply never wake up. AB was very lucky!

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[MB]

IIRC once educated on here I think there is only a small chance of death recorded from diesel soot?
Please do double double check my memory though
It certainly makes you as crook as all hell as I once experienced as a silly kid! We had just watched Indiana Jones-Raiders of the Lost Ark and we decided to wrap rags around logs soaked in diesel to torch explore the then open gold tunnel labyrinths of our Warrandyte home.
A horrible week after had I must say, never want to experience that again, no permanent damage though


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[Winnie]

Diesel exhaust definitely contains carbon monoxide so I wouldn't be putting that theory to the test...

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[MB]

100% Agreed Mate
I believe the advice given was to run two types of alarms, Carbon Monoxide & Dioxide maybe?


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[Winnie]

I haven't heard that one before but will do some research. I was in a Facebook group all about these cheap Chinese diesel heaters and the consensus was the are safe, but if two gaskets fail then they will pump diesel exhaust into the cabin, a carbon monoxide alarm will wake you before it becomes a serious problem.
The alarm was $50 from Bunnings and had a 10 year lithium battery.

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[MB]

@nissannewby pretty please Mate help jog my memory, I deliberately bought the two different alarm sensors read for our mobile work van/donga that ran our diesel Webasto unit throughout-8C Cooma-NSW winter work safely


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[nissannewby]

Yeah diesel produce a different gas. Hence you need the correct tester when looking for head gasket cracks. The petrol types are looking for carbon monoxide to change colour while the diesel doesn't produce this. You could potentially still die from diesel exhaust fumes but you would be quite ill before doing so. Where as petrol you just fall asleep and your done.

Diesel still does produce a small amount of carbon monoxide but not even close to the levels of a petrol. So a carbon monoxide alarm would still work. So having both CO and CO2 alarms is very safe.

[nissannewby]

Here is a good link.

https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&sour...j2bgSwqqiPVpn5