Buy Dyna Glo Delux, RA18LPDGD, 18,000 BTU Propane Cabinet HeaterDyna Glo Delux, RA18LPDGD, 18,000 BTU Propane Cabinet Heater Product Description:
- Built-in oxygen depletion shutoff (ODS) for safety
- self-contained propane cylinder
- Uses a 20-1b. Propane tank (not included)
- Adjustable heat settings
- Locking casters
Product Description
The DynaGlo Delux Propane Cabinet Heater produces up to 6,000-18,000 BTU’s of warmth and heats up to 450 square feet. Great for use in workshops, garages, patios, decks, and camping. Piezo igniter, 1 year limited warranty,
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11 of 11 people found the following review helpful.
Great heater, convenient, powerful
By Nicholas Wilson
I've had the heater for a few days now, and it has been working great for me, kicking out plenty of heat.The heater has three adjoining burners, each rated at 6000 BTU. Each burner is either on or off, and each is controlled by the gas valve on top of the cabinet. Low setting is the center burner only. Medium is the left and center burners together, and high is all three on at once. Each burner has a ceramic element with many small holes that the gas flows through as it burns, heating the ceramic bright orange hot and putting out a lot of radiant infrared heat rays. Of course there is also hot air rising from the burners too, and that contributes to warming a room. The radiant heat feels great, especially when you come in from the cold and want to warm your hands.Some reviewers reported difficulty keeping the "pilot" lit. The pilot is actually an oxygen depletion sensor or ODS. It is designed and tuned so that if the oxygen in the room falls below a safe level the flame will go out, triggering the gas control to shut off the gas to the burners. The heater is not designed for outdoor use, and in fact the manual says it's for indoor use only. If used outdoors, any breeze will blow out the exposed pilot, aka ODS.The user manual describes this as a "construction heater." There is a disclaimer in the manual saying the heater is not suitable for residential use. I regard both of those as coming from the manufacturer's legal department. But I can think of at least two reasons why it could be dangerous to use for home heating. First, the heater is unvented, so although it burns cleanly with a blue flame and negligible carbon monoxide when it is new and clean and perfectly adjusted, eventually partially clogged air inlets on the burners could result in carbon monoxide release. I would not use this heater indoors without a CO alarm in the room to monitor it.A second reason it's not for residential use is that it runs from a common 20 lb. propane bottle of the kind used for gas BBQ grills, and those tanks are not safe for indoor use or even storage. The tank sits mostly inside the open back of the metal cabinet. Of course people do use them in residences, and usually there is no problem, as long as all of the gas fittings are tight and the flex hose is in good condition. But eventually you could have a propane leak that could lead to a fire or explosion. That's why the user manual says to always turn off the gas at the tank valve whenever you turn the heater off, because that eliminates most of the potential sources of leaks. But what happens if your house is on fire and there's a 5-gallon tank of propane inside? The tank won't explode and rupture because it has a safety pressure relief valve to prevent that, but it will release a lot of propane in a hurry, and inside a burning house that's not a good thing.There are multiple safety features engineered into the heater. One is a tipover or bump sensor located inside the top of the cabinet next to the gas control. If you bump the heater medium hard while it is operating it will immediately shut off. There is also another sensor in the propane regulator that attaches to your propane tank. The manual says to connect it to the tank so that the flatter side of the regulator is up. I missed that when I first hooked it up, and couldn't get the pilot to light. I reviewed the setup instructions, saw what was wrong and corrected it. The manual says never use any other regulator with the heater than the one it is supplied with, and that's because it has this tip-over regulator built into it. Since fixing the regulator orientation it has worked perfectly every time.After the heater has been used for a while, eventually house dust, cobwebs or woolie boogers drawn in with air will partly block the air inlets of the main burners and/or the pilot ODS. The manual goes into this and tells you to clean it with a vacuum cleaner or compressed air. The ODS is sensitive by design. Its job is to prevent the heater from burning in a closed room until it has used up enough oxygen to start producing carbon monoxide. Of course you should never use the heater without adequate ventilation, and the manual tells you so.Another safety feature is a chrome reflector panel extending forward from the bottom of the burners. It keeps the floor directly in front of the heater from getting too hot. But there are no similar reflectors to limit radiant heat going to the sides, so you will need to be careful not to have anything flammable close to the side and slightly in front of the heater. The metal cabinet of the heater does not get very hot, largely because of the open back.The wheels make it easy to roll the heater from place to place, and two of them have locking brakes to keep it from rolling if the floor isn't level, and to keep the heater from being moved or re-aimed due to an accidental bump.I'm very pleased with this heater as a supplemental or backup heater for an unheated work room in my house. If I start it up on high, it warms the roughly 500 sq. ft. room pretty quickly, and I turn it down to low to hold the temperature. I'm conscious of the potential dangers, and use the heater carefully, making sure to close the tank valve every time when not in use, and checking that the ODS and main burner flames are clean and blue.This is not a fully automatic idiot-proof appliance. It could kill you, but that's also true of your car and a good many other things that we must use with care. This heater has many safety features, but in the end you have to use the one built into you -- your brain.
7 of 7 people found the following review helpful.
Dyna Glo Delux
By Tom
Nice little heater. Works as it should. Sheet metal is a bit thin & flimsy but it's a relatively inexpensive item and I didn't expect much.Since it hasn't been cold enough to really use it, I can't attest to how well it actually heats a room, but the little bit I did use it to take off the chill, it heated up a 1,000 sq ft room very quickly. It uses standard 20lb BBQ tanks that sit within the cabinet of the unit, which was the main reason I selected this unit.
2 of 2 people found the following review helpful.
Good One!
By oldguy
This is my second one. I have disconnected the tilt switch on both and they both fire right up. apparently there is a defect in the tilt or bump switch as these units won't keep the pilot lit with them connected. wonderfull heater.
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