Hello, I am making this video with the intention that it will possibly save
somebody's life
here we have a candle heater it is basically a terracotta pot with another
one inside and a whole series of nuts and washers attached to a bolt which
runs through now firstly let me begin by saying that these heaters are very very
effective at dealing with condensation in an environment like on a boat all
this condensation here now on the windows
if I'd been using this heater throughout the night there will be zero
condensation
they are extremely effective at dealing away with a condensation this terracotta
pot on top gets very hot and the bolt here gets so hot that you can't touch it
in this case this was attached to a chain because it's on a yacht(out of water).
Now please take note of this because these are extremely dangerous devices
the tea lights inside generate about 40 watts each so that's four in there now
so there is about a hundred and sixty watts of heat. The heat in here
get so intense now what you actually create is a bomb
now the paraffin inside these kettle lights very quickly melts it turns into
liquid as the candle works.
Those ones aren't quite there yet because I only lit this a few minutes ago to
demonstrate, now let me explain how these are dangerous.
These kettle lights, tealights whichever you want to call them they should never
be less than eight centimeters apart
in this case they are near on right next to each other. What happens is theres two scenarios
that can unfold
because the wax turns to liquid the intense heat creates the possibility for
those liquids in each pot to ignite,
however, if the wax liquid wax would leak out and
get into this tray at the bottom it then comes down the bar inside and you can
never get rid of it
now I had a fire with one of these and that exact scenario happened the wax
leaked out and it came down the shaft of this studing here
and during the night it flash flared the whole thing ignited all the paraffin
wax inside the saucer ignited and the flames came reaching out all the way up
they came so high that they actually melted this hook
now look at the damage it did here
it was exactly the same thing it was hanging on that hole there and ignited in
the night and really burn the boat down now as I say these heaters are extremely
effective at dealing with condensation
however they are exceedingly dangerous
you must never ever use tea lights that close together
now despite saying this i still use this device because as I say
does deal with the conversation however i only use one tea light at a time but
even then there is a danger because the heat that gets generated from this
device is really quite remarkable it is intense heat
this pot here once it's been running for 10 minutes you can't hold it
that bar there it is impossible to touch it without burning your fingers so
please please please
if you're going to make one of these do not under any circumstances put multiple
tea lights in and never ever leave it unattended. The possibility for this to
ignite and flash flare is extremely high.
These are not so these are not safe devices and even though they may be
aesthetically pleasing and very effective in many ways they are totally
utterly lethal
they are very very dangerous
if you use these at some point the possibility of having a fire erupt
within the actual liquid wax itself is extremely high
these are very very dangerous
I had a lucky escape
please don't make the same mistake