- Hi, Kevin from Snowys Outdoors here.
And this is the Portable Camping Heater from Gasmate.
- This is lightweight and easy to handle.
It has electronic ignition
and it is ideal for keeping your campsite warm.
Now, this unit comes in about 4.9 kilos.
It is 42 centimetres wide.
It is 24 and a half centimetres deep
and it's about 35 centimetres high.
With the handle up, it is about 40 centimetres overall.
The body is made up of a nylon material.
You've got a steel frame here, which is powder coated
and you've got a chrome grill, the front pan handle
and you've got a ceramic burner just there in the front.
If I turn this around here
you can see there's literally not much
except that is where you connect your gas.
That's where I'll talk about shortly.
And if I turn the unit around again
you have your controller here and I'll hook that up
and show you how that works as well.
On the back here
you've got some ventilation to allow the extra heat out
and you have this little flap that you open that up.
And inside here is your gas hose.
Now the unit comes with this gas hose.
You don't have to buy it separately.
That's a regulator supply and I'll hook
that up shortly and show you how it works.
So I'll close that up.
Now I'll just turn it around and lay it on its back.
There's a little compartment under here
where the battery goes.
You'll just open that up like that.
Take your D cell battery.
Now this is sold separately.
It doesn't come with the heater.
Push that in there all the way in
and close that back up again.
Now we'll stand it back up again.
Now I'm gonna connect the hose to this.
You can see this is the POL fitting.
That part goes on the bottle.
And this one is the 3/8 BSP that goes onto the heater there.
So we'll screw that on.
Now make sure that this is tight.
You will need a small spanner.
Just nip it up.
Doesn't have to be really tight.
Just nip it up.
So it doesn't pop loose.
That way it doesn't have any leaks.
Now, if you smell gas, you can test
for leaks by putting little soapy water on it.
You'll soon see it bubbling up and that'll show you
that there's a leak there.
What you do is try and tighten it
up a little bit more, but don't over tighten it.
If it continues to leak after that
then there's something wrong.
There's a mark on there or something.
And it needs to be looked at by a professional.
So that's it connected to the heater.
Now I'm gonna connect to the bottle.
I'll just grab the bottle.
Now this is just a display bottle.
It's a bit of an old one
but it still does the job.
Uncoil the hose.
You can see this is a POL fitting.
That's a POL adapt fitting on there.
It has a left hand thread
which means you actually have to undo it to do it up.
So we'll just tighten that up.
Now we'll just move that gas bottle around there
out the way and we'll turn the heater around.
Now, when you turn the gas bottle on,
the hose is full of air.
So just allow a little brief moment
for the air to go through the hose.
So it ignites properly.
Now this heater is very easy to operate
with this single knob here.
It's currently pointing to the off position.
As you can see to ignite this, you simply push the knob in
and turn it around to the left, to the ignition position.
Now you need to hold it there for about 30 seconds.
So if you keep counting under 30
you can just hold it there for a little bit.
That allows the thermocoupling to heat up
and make sure that the pilot light stays alight.
So if I release that now,
the pilot light should stay on which it does.
Now on this side here
you can see you've got the igniter.
On the other side there, you've got your thermocoupling.
I'll show you what happens when I blow the flame out.
You hear that little click?
That's the thermocoupling shutting off.
Now, a thermocoupling is a flame failure device.
What happens is when the flame goes out
that device will shut the gas flow off.
So you don't have gas flowing.
Then you don't create a dangerous situation.
Now, just looking at the control knob down here,
you can see it's currently pointing to the low position.
Now it's locked in that position.
Can't really move.
Just turn it around to medium
just push it in slightly and turn it.
It'll slowly go up to medium
and it'll lock itself there in medium.
Go around to maximum you push the knob back in and again
turn it around until it hits the stop.
And now it's at maximum.
Now this heater has an output
of about 13,500 BTUs uses about 265 grammes per hour.
Couple of safety features built
into this heater has an automatic tip over safety switch
which means if you happen to tip it over and knock it over
it will turn the gas off and put the flame out.
It also has a built in low oxygen sensor.
Now that means that if you're
inside a tent or enclosed space and the oxygen level drops,
it'll turn itself off automatically as well.
But it is not designed for inside spaces.
You don't use an inside a tent or a caravan .
It's actually designed to be used outside.
Now that's all I've got
on the Gasmate portable camping heater.
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