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Hello boys and girls.
The March Hare:
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Ayuh .. She certainly shone brightly in her day..
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Dropped 13 since midnight, when I tried to unwrap a cord and it snapped. Just woke up to minus 31 according to the wireless.
Even better than a van, if you're visualizing an E-350 - an uninsulated and poorly sealed aluminium body.
You can clearly see how much I miss a bench.
I'll need a proper (heavy) panel service to my (big) bus eventually when I start putting the floor back in, but 250 feet of 8/3 isn't in the budget right now.
Wife has a naptha camp stove somewhere :D .. and don't they say CO is great for that warm fuzzy feeling?
Ian.M:
Don't go the camp stove route - any reasonably compact combustion heater except a room-sealed balanced flue heater will either kill you with CO, or at least make you as sick as a dog and stupid to boot, before it warms up the van enough to work comfortably. A small stove just cant put out enough heat to make up for the heat loss via the ventilation it needs to burn safely.
Can you get hold of enough straw bales to stack round it up to roof height, some insulation boards to go across the top, and some big heavy tarps to keep the weather out of the bales and hold the insulation boards down etc. to provide enough insulation that you can survive in the van with the limited wattage electrical heat you can run?
Otherwise you'd need to get and fit a 12V diesel fuelled truck heater, and a RV/marine permanently installed battery charger to 'float' the battery while keeping up with the diesel heater's electrical load. Take care the heater's balanced flue/vent is somewhat sheltered from direct high winds or the heater will probably keep on blowing out and going into emergency shutdown when you need it the most.
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