86scotty
Cynic
My apologies if this has been discussed already. If it has, please link.
Here's my dilemma. Living in the Southeast most of the time any heater will work, so the rational go-to these days is the small form factor Webasto/Espar type heaters, diesel or gas. They are hard to beat. But, the times I need heat the most is at high altitude. I mean really high altitude, way up in the Colorado Rockies above 10k, and of course I'm always planning for bigger trips to far away lands.....Alaska.....Tibet.....Mars maybe.
I've had several different propane types (Suburban/Atwood RV furnaces, one Propex, one Wave catalytic type) but back then I didn't travel as far and wide or as high and so I didn't test them for this.
I'm curious of opinions and experience. If you can fit it in an overland rig and it doesn't cost north of, say, a grand, what type is best for really high altitude reliability?
My only request here is that we do not turn this in to a discussion of how to adjust diesel air heaters to work at high altitude. I know this, we've all seen this here in several threads this past winter. I'm talking about out of the box.....and those even modified aren't reliable above 10k or so I've heard.
Here's my dilemma. Living in the Southeast most of the time any heater will work, so the rational go-to these days is the small form factor Webasto/Espar type heaters, diesel or gas. They are hard to beat. But, the times I need heat the most is at high altitude. I mean really high altitude, way up in the Colorado Rockies above 10k, and of course I'm always planning for bigger trips to far away lands.....Alaska.....Tibet.....Mars maybe.
I've had several different propane types (Suburban/Atwood RV furnaces, one Propex, one Wave catalytic type) but back then I didn't travel as far and wide or as high and so I didn't test them for this.
I'm curious of opinions and experience. If you can fit it in an overland rig and it doesn't cost north of, say, a grand, what type is best for really high altitude reliability?
My only request here is that we do not turn this in to a discussion of how to adjust diesel air heaters to work at high altitude. I know this, we've all seen this here in several threads this past winter. I'm talking about out of the box.....and those even modified aren't reliable above 10k or so I've heard.