Parasene Hanging Mini Heater

The concept is great, and it has potential, but either there's some kind of airflow problem they need to work out, or they need *much* better directions for these. It's basically a small tank for paraffin / kerosene, a wick, and a metal screen cover. You fill the tank, drop the wick assembly back into the fill hole and push into place, let the wick saturate, light, adjust, put the lid back on, and hang. Sounds simple enough.

However, the result, 9 of 10 times so far, is that we come back a day or two later, and the heater has extinguished itself. Lots of fuel left. Inside, the top cover is ***COVERED*** in soot. Not just covered, but there's always a mushroom-like blob of partially solid soot above the wick, with the screen so covered that no air can get in or exhaust out. I'm assuming, though I have no idea from the vague directions, that I'm somehow failing to set the flame low enough.

Also, one time something went very wrong, and the heater got *way* too hot, burned all of the paint off the top, and burned a hole in our plastic hoop cover. We solved that (hopefully) by filling them less full, lowering the flame more, and lowering the heater closer to the ground.

The process we're using is to trim the wick, fill just below the top, reset the wick (they've never burned through the fuel yet, so no need to wait for the wick to saturate anymore), light with the top off, adjust down to a flame with no smoke, let burn for 5 minutes, turn down more if needed, put the cover back on and hang. That's worked once so far.

The Parasene hanging mini heater is excellently suited for the smaller greenhouses a lot of people now have - my friend who never did greenhouses before, even has one now - a mini one! I have easy access to Paraffin, which is ofcourse a must. Economic in my opinion, so a good option for me to use in the smaller greenhouse and oversized growing box.