Greetings!
I have both low & high vents for passive airflow/cooling that doesn’t require any power, and I keep them open 24/7 normally. I do have exhaust fans on them, but rarely use them.
Then when heating, cooking, cooling, or using my table top fire pit, they sit on my counter, with an opening window behind them, and a range hood over them. To date, they have never triggered my carbon monoxide detectors, even when running the heating/cooling 24/7 for days on end.
My fire pit has flames above it’s container, but with the heater/cooler/cooker the flames are down in the container below a grill on top. It’s made using a cookie tin with a lid, so when it’s not in use, the lid prevents any spillage when traveling. The fire pit has spill proof lid as well.
I actually keep several, so I can have multiple burners, plus one for my portable, fold flat oven.
The somewhat open flames don’t bother me, people use their stoves & ovens for heat all the time. This is just a cheaper & simpler version, and what I probably appreciate more than anything is the adjustability of the heat output. Mine have 36 wicks, and you adjust the heat level by how many wicks you light. Fan forced cooling only requires a single wick to be lit to run the fan, and no electricity.
The newer versions of heat powered fans use a Peltier chip to power them, but the older versions used variations of the Stirling engine design, which is what I’ve chosen to use. My fans are from the 1800’s, and still running like new.
We can learn a lot from history, and how they accomplished things before electricity, and much of it can be very beneficial to modern day nomads. Having power is great, but having the ability to live comfortably without it is priceless.
Cheers!
"Old school, cheap, simple, reliable, and easily replaceable for the win!" ~ Traveler@Heart
