Overnight in a tent - a circumstance known to many for fishing trips, picnics and other situations. Night in a tent without heating can be dispensed only in the summer, the rest of the day is still quite warm months It should take care of the heating method of marching at night, which gets most of portable heater.
Manufacturers tourist gear and marching equipment now offer a lot of compact heater, for heating of tents and temporary shelters in the field.
Consider the most common heaters used in field conditions, from the perspective of their characteristics matching requirements.
Eligibility heater for use in a tent
If not treated tents and tent constructions industrial or military purposes with the possibility of accommodation large groups of people, the tent - a well-known hunter accessory, fisherman, traveler, or simply those who left on a picnic.
The apparatus is of small volume, frame or frameless type, made of waterproof canvas, impermeable and also air. The material of the tent, depending on the composition and impregnating reacts differently to heat and open flame.
Given these factors, the heater for suitability of its use tent must have the following characteristics:
- Security - the most important requirement for miniaturization of housing and distance from the assistance services;
- compact - for easy transport of personal transport, transfer and placement in a residential area of deficiency;
- sufficient effectiveness - a portable heater with a compact design has to cope with its mission;
- efficiency - providing fuel assembly should not be burdensome;
- rational functionality - welcomed the opportunity to use the unit for cooking or heating outside the tent;
- ease of operation.
Types of heaters for tents and their device
Species industrial manufacturing heaters used in field conditions, a set of classifiers more. The main difference between these heaters - a consumable fuel, and power output of heat.
Important! Using improvised heaters, especially in tent conditions - with limited living space, It is explosive and flammable, so use them is permissible only in extreme situations when there is no alternatives. In all other cases you should use the device only in industrial production.
Fuel oil equipment
Tourist heaters for liquid fuel, depending on the design, consume kerosene or gasoline. The calorific value of these devices is rather high, but their operation is accompanied by the following negative factors:
- even burning purified fuel accompanied by the presence of liquid in the air odor in a certain period;
- procedure filling a heater to avoid spilling fuel requires caution;
- Not all types of devices have constructive possibility of equipping the device automatically stop burning rollover;
- Liquid fuel quality when purchasing not predictable.
Kerosene heaters are compact
heaters kerosene for marching applications related to infrared devices heating, but can also be used for cooking.
The device is a housing, the bottom of which is located a fuel tank for the filling neck. At the top of the tank as a kerosene lamp wick wiper apparatus mounted with the control mechanism of the flame. The wick is a tube of a special fabric, the lower part of which is immersed in kerosene and the upper metallic mesh disposed within emitter cylinder. The wick is ignited either manually or using a piezo device, and after the heating device (5 minutes) in length regulated to no soot during burning - combustion occurs with longer kerosene, and its vapors.
Metal mesh (shroud) is heated to glow and emit infrared wave starts, the heating surface of objects in the path of propagation. The instrument can be supplied metal utensils suitable size for cooking.
Advantages of such "stoves" - compactness, functionality, efficiency, affordable price.
disadvantages - odor in the air from kerosine combustion to exit the device in the operation mode (the first 5 minutes), the absence of automatic termination of the fuel supply device in the presence of rollover probability.
Gasoline heaters for tents
For heating interim lightweight housing heaters on gasoline used for a long time, but in the past it was a primitive device based on the conventional burner high fire during operation.
In the process of improvement of modern petrol heaters are efficient universal devices that consume as fuel is not petrol and air-gasoline or air-alcohol mixture.
However, the presence of odor in the air accompanying the combustion of impurities in the gasoline or alcohol, making these devices less popular.
More sophisticated marching liquid fuel heaters are catalytic action, a heat which occurs due to oxidation of the fuel, but not in the course of its combustion. In such devices the preheated vapors of gasoline or the alcohol is also fed to the heated plate with the coating of the catalyst, and where there is their oxidation to produce heat. Also produced a model with removable hob for cooking.
With a high degree of security (no open flame) in these units has a significant disadvantage - limited resource, since the oxidation catalyst material is vaporized under the influence heating.
solid fuel assemblies
These devices are generally not considered to be essential in deciding the heating in a tent or a tent, since the restriction in size heating devices preclude the use of firewood, and efficiency of solid materials such as, e.g., dry alcohol without great.
However, as a means for the rapid warming hands or warming mug of tea, canned food cans solid fuel devices are fully applicable.
gas appliances
Species gas heaters for tents made many, so to present the total of all such units description is not real. Each line models has individual characteristics and common to all marching gas heater is only kind of fuel consumption, compactness and efficiency.
Travel gas heater mostly designed for the use of disposable cylinders propane, are inserted into the housing or connectable by hose. But produced models to be mounted on a standard household bulb, suitable for cooking.
Important! Devices on a standard cylinder because of the physical characteristics of liquefied natural gas suitable for use at temperatures down to -5 degrees, and it should be taken into account in the cylinder carriage and its location installation. Gas fuel in special cartridges designed for use at lower temperatures.
According to the heating method for use in tents most safe and effective portable gas heater infrared action due to the absence at work directed jet of hot air, a fire in a room small volume.
Gas heater from the container, equipped with conventional burners without IR emitter effective when used in the open air, for example, for fast cooking in the boiler.
Infrared heaters for field conditions are divided into three groups:
- with a metal radiator;
- ceramic radiation generator;
- catalytic action.
metal radiator Tourist gas infrared heater is a steel mesh heated by a burner and a reflector-fitted reflector. The radiator is not in contact with the burner material and safety of use is equipped with protective netting.
Despite the fact that these heaters are versatile - used for heating an area of 5-6 square meters, and cooking, price. devices with a metal radiator range is available a wide range of consumer, but should be considered when buying increased their consumption gas.
Ceramic infrared radiation generator portable heaters for tents configured as a perforated plate, is also heated by the burner flame, which gas mixture is supplied. Suitable ceramic infrared heaters for heating gas, it is impossible to prepare them only, while the statistical analysis of the use of these devices shows high fire hazard. However, in view of compactness, low weight (average 0.7 kg without replacement of cylinders), the minimum separation of the combustion products gas and fuel efficiency, such heaters continue to be very popular among lovers of tourism.
Catalytic gas heater for use in tents and tents - most advanced apparatus for marching conditions having a design fiberglass panel with platinum or cobalt chrome coating - catalyst. Converting energy of fuel into heat in such devices occurs without combustion - on the preheated panel is also pre-fed The preheated gas, which reacts with oxygen (oxidized) resulting in the isolation in the presence of a catalyst energy.
Due to the lack of open flame in the process flow and oxidation at a temperature below catalytic combustion heaters are most safe for use in cramped conditions tent. Moreover, such heaters efficiency in converting fuel into heat energy stored in the area of 99%, whereas the ceramic emitters - about 50%.
Catalytic heater tent - quiet unit with zero emission probability in the air of combustion products, but the effect of its operation requires some time.
Catalytic gas heating appliances can not be used for cooking as well as physical impact on the plate or hit on it the liquid can destroy the catalyst or redeem device.
The unit is compact, does not require a search of fuel, but is designed for the use of disposable cartridges only certain species.
Fuel oxidation temperature below its combustion temperature, but heater still can not lean against or to combustible objects touch it with bare hands.
The oxidation process is accompanied by the consumption of oxygen from the air in the tent, so it is necessary to periodically ventilate, and the sleep unit for safety reasons it's better off.
Important! The power of some models of catalytic portable heaters foreign manufacturers are not designed for use in conditions of the Russian winter. Therefore, for such devices are commercially available special nozzles, increasing the heat transfer area of the device.
Runs heater by pressing the piezo ignition device or via matches.
Price Range heaters catalytic action begins with 2.5 thousand. rub.
On a note
To avoid repeating the mistakes of others, it should be noted that the use for heating tents or tent improvised devices on batteries or is not effective.
At first glance, it seems possible to use for this heaters based on resistive elements or self-regulating heating cable, but it should be borne in mind that, even if the heaters to choose a battery voltage of 12 V, the battery will need constant recharging. To ensure the battery is charging, you need a generator that, in turn, needs fuel, and thus know-how in the form of "heat battery-powered" become time consuming and costly exercise.
conclusion
Today, going fishing or just enjoying the outdoors, can be less afraid of change, depending on weather and the availability of fossil fuel for the fire - tourism equipment market and assemblies for heating shelter is full enough. Due to the presence of a marching heater, you can look for a place to relax without being tied to the presence there of firewood. However, hope fully on the existing unit is not to be, and it is better to have in stock is another device of another type. At the same time, will be more reliable than the selected tourist heating equipment, the less likely a spoiled holiday due to unexpected cold snap.
The main essence of the article
- Heaters for tents - a necessary and affordable accessory, whose presence at long stay in nature can not be overestimated.
- When choosing a device for heating or cooking tent, it is necessary not only to anticipate the upcoming conditions of their operation, but and basic requirements for marching heater: safety, functionality with compactness, efficiency and simplicity use.
- Fuel oil heaters are effective, but because of the physical characteristics of the fuel uncomfortable. In addition, when using them there is a factor of unpredictability acquired quality fuel.
- Gas heaters hiking sufficiently effective in compactness, thus their operation in terms of fuel is much simpler. In addition, there are 2 types of modern tourist gas heaters - ceramic emitter and catalytic action, optimum conditions of the respective prolonged nature.
- To protect yourself from surprises associated with the change of weather when going on nature, it is better to stock up but core, standby heating means temporary housing, and, with the possibility of use in the preparation food.
