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gcrank1
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# Posted: 17 Sep 2024 04:57pm
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Might be a good time to get a head start on checking your CO alarms and changing bats in them if equipped and smoke alarms too.
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paulz
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# Posted: 17 Sep 2024 11:45pm
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Good reminder. Easy testing for me, just fry up a burger inside with the door shut, sets em off every time.
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gcrank1
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# Posted: 4 Nov 2025 09:45am
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Here we are again! Same things to check/get ready 
Also means time to drain our ~60gal rain barrel utility water before it starts freezing the barrel up.
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Steve_S
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# Posted: 4 Nov 2025 09:50am
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Also check "Tune Up" Generators / Snowblowers and clean out air filters as well as water system filters etc... All the stuff you don't want to do in the cold or ick (pending where you are LOL).
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paulz
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# Posted: 7 Nov 2025 11:48am
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Hey the other day I boiled some potatoes on this, outside. Got me wondering, what’s the danger of using it inside the cabin? Would help heat the place too. My regular grill has lp burners with a roof vent above it.
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gcrank1
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# Posted: 7 Nov 2025 12:48pm
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No more danger than any LP gas kitchen stove with one burner going.
Fwiw, Ive been using such most of my life (grew up with em) and it hasn't affected me a bit
A bit
A bit....
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groingo
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# Posted: 7 Nov 2025 01:06pm
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Yeah....m.m.m.m.mme twoo, been using phropain fer 14 no 15 no....hello, would someone trace this call and tell me where I'm at?
But in all seriousness have been using a single burner Coleman 7900 btu burner for heat and cooking, even tried several Monoxide testers of which none went off, so called the fire dept to check, same there nothing so had the health department come out, same thing zero or too low to register but I still never leave it on at night or unattended when sleeping and always have a window cracked which really helps circulation and if you smell rotten eggs it's either your at the bottom of the tank or need to shake the tank a bit or you may have just gotten some bad propane which will usually have a lot of yellow flame. Would I recommend heating this way to everyone.... absolutely NOT, there is always that one chucklehead that will wreck it for everyone so just be paying attention if you do.
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paulz
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# Posted: 7 Nov 2025 03:10pm
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Ok thanks guys. Gcrank, you had something quit running a while back unless you opened a window. What was that all about again?
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gcrank1
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# Posted: 7 Nov 2025 03:37pm - Edited by: gcrank1
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It was our Non-Vented LP wall heater, acted like a faulty Thermocouple shutting off the gas (not uncommon and I beat my brain trying to sort that) but I am quite certain it was the ODS (Oxygen Depletion Sensor) that is very generously set to shut unit off if the ox level even approaches unsafe. That is surely to the credit of the manufacturer to be on the ultra-safe side.
I had used their calc for fresh air and even added a bit more and it wasnt enough to avoid what I considered premature shut down; even used my 'hospital' ox-meter and had NO symptoms.
So, I increased the fresh air intake to ~2x the calc and all has been fine end end of last season and thus far this year.
Note that this is not carbon monoxide! It is for 'insufficient oxygen' and you Do Not want to be getting edgy on the settings (thus there is nothing adjustable about the ODS).
Modding an ODS is shear stupidity 
Any combustion uses oxygen and to the correct ration to fuel to burn properly (and a poor burn will gen more CO).
We dont run it overnight either, just get the place nice and warm, shut heater down and if it gets too cold in the night (as an official 'old guy' I typically get up a couple times a night) I run it about 1/2 hr. 30K Btu's does a good job of 'taking a chill off' pretty quick, wayyy quicker than our old wood stove that had always burned well down and needed some 'nursing' to get it ripping again. A wood stove requires generous oxygen replacement too!
And, fwiw, I am looking locally for a decent used Vented unit of at least 30k btu's.
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paulz
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# Posted: 8 Nov 2025 07:49am - Edited by: paulz
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Ok yes I remember. No depletion sensors on Coleman burners!
Boiling some squash inside. Whole reason for this is I have 20 new Coleman bottles a friend gave me. Take 10 years with just my propane torch.
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