well welcome back to Steve Robb reviews today we're going to have an interesting experiment
it's about this diesel Shah Peter or torpedo heater guys this is 250,000 BTU I've had so many
questions about the shop heater whether it's safe to use or not let's get into it right now okay as
you can see it's cold the shop it's minus 10 this is the unit I bought raid here you can see that
right there carbon monoxide alarm guys this was only 20 bucks this is strictly an experiment I
went through all the instructions and you know what it says don't put it in your furnace room
don't put it in your garage don't use it at 40 degrees Fahrenheit or less this is strictly an
experiment I got the batteries in it I'll put the test on for you there you can see and it
will start to read at 30 parts per million and up to I believe it says instructions 888 parts
per million an alarm will set and it only reads in between there and then it will set the alarm
off it says to mount it on the wall I am going to mount on the wall I'm gonna put a my cell
phone there with the timer so you can watch it and of course after it's been armed it doesn't
show anything right now but we'll see what happens I think it's a it's a valid experiment you know
what else are you going to do but so far are the diesel shop heaters or kerosene chop heaters safe
to use well the symptoms that they're explaining is dizziness lightheadedness and nausea you know
at the beginning science I've never felt any of that and I know people that have firearms
big shops they've been using these for years and it's not like years ago with the diesel
fuel that we had many many years ago the high sulfur diesel fuel today it's not like that and
I've never noticed anything but as you can see I have my electric shop heater here and what I
do is I heat my shop up first and I'll show you on the timer far you know I go which is about I
don't know I think I've done this test before how long it takes to heat up my shop and it's
usually around like it's well under 10 minutes maybe six minutes something like that but then
I go with the electric and I've never noticed any symptoms or anything but I thought this would be
a good experiment just to see if it does give a reading or does give a count or something now
it's not foolproof this is strictly an experiment and I thought we'd try it because you guys let me
know in the comments before if you've used one of these torpedo heaters or diesel shop heaters and
noticed any side-effects from them because for me I turn it on most of the time I'm gone anyways I
come back in about 5-10 minutes it's shut off I turned my heat on my electric but there's a
lot of people that strictly use these as their source of heat so let's do this experiment now
and let's see what the results are okay cut you all set up on the wall there I got the timer on
and it doesn't look like it's reading anything on this but no it doesn't actually read anything
when it's in standby so you just press it then it arms it and now it's ready to go so yeah I'll
just do it again for you see now it's ready to go and then the the digits will disappear as it goes
into just waiting mode so I'll turn the shop heater on and well first of all I'll turn the
timer on it's not gonna taking a long walk back there there okay I'll turn this off heater on now
okay I hope you could hear me coming in the room yeah I was waiting outside till I heard it shut
off I'll just turn this off now okay let's go take a look okay so it's just over six minutes
let's stop the clock right now and have a little chat okay so here we are just over six minutes it
was on and I wasn't in here I was outside you can see my glasses all went dark and guys I don't see
nothing on this I'll hit the maybe something bold guys nothing happened it's still at zero
so I don't know what to make of this what do you guys think you know it's still you know at zero
and it said that's where you're supposed to mount it my garage is 14 by 24 and the ceilings about 12
high and as you could see 250,000 BTU is blowing in here at that a rate amount of heat and what's
this moment all say now you know I'm gonna take you over there and show you what it says just to
prove to you what was going on here I'll show you on the wall what the thermometer says okay
there she is right there looks about 70 degrees 20 degrees Celsius well what do you guys think
this was supposed to register for sure starting on 30 parts per million up to 888 parts per million
the alarm goes on nothing happened here you know and this is all real time you know from the time
I showed you the temperature on the wall to now to the whole test ten minutes in here you know
tops so I really don't know what to say about this but to me this gives me a little bit of peace of
mind that this thing ain't picking up nothing and you would think that I would pick up something it
says do not put it in your garage do not put it at degree at 40 degrees well it's a lot hotter
than 40 degrees it's 70 degrees now so if this was picking up anything I'll just show you for
life that's time there it's not showing nothing and I've never felt any type of conditions of it
so I mean now that I'm in the shop I just go over to the wall here and turn the heater on and away
I go so you know I think that's a good setup that I have I think it's safe and even if you don't run
yours on electric heat my shop is at 70 rate now I bet I could work in here easily for like a small
little job of a half an hour nice and warm in here you don't need your jacket on you know I think
that they are safe yeah they say don't use them in enclosed spaces without you know fresh ventilation
and everything else and you know I think a lot of that is if your heater is not burning efficiently
if it's smoking or anything like that forget it all bets off you shouldn't be using it in the
first place but I'm saying I'm saying that I think that it's safe I don't know how good this test is
I'd love to hear any comments down below what do you think this is a valid test or not a valid test
but I think if there was a lot of poisonous gases in the air you know what this little
carbon monoxide alarm it would have gone off and done something wouldn't you think okay so thank
you joining me here today I hope you enjoyed this little bit of a video on testing one of these out
and see whether your shop heater is safe in your shop so thanks for joining me here and you haven't
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