{"id":5486,"date":"2021-02-12T09:59:21","date_gmt":"2021-02-12T15:59:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ramblindan.org\/?p=5486"},"modified":"2021-02-12T10:16:02","modified_gmt":"2021-02-12T16:16:02","slug":"safety-first-window-de-ice","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ramblindan.org\/?p=5486","title":{"rendered":"Safety First Window De-Ice"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>I used my small 1500 watt electric room heater (using low 750 watt setting) to thaw out our two iced-over autos. Dry windows in about 1\/2 hour.<\/p>\n

One must of course have a long extension cord (I use for yard work) and access to 120 volt power.<\/p>\n

Safety Concerns<\/h3>\n

The heater must be one with a finned ceramic block heat core and fan with NO RADIANT open filament emission meaning no light emission. Just warm blowing air.<\/p>\n

My cars are SUV type with hatchback and fold down rear seats. I fold down the seats a put heater in the way-back. NO HOT AIR blowing against anything within 3 foot<\/strong>.<\/p>\n

My heater has safety switch for fall over and a working temperature control (thermostat) I set to 50% I also used Low Power setting. (750 watt)<\/p>\n

This may not be safe<\/em> in standard seats-only vehicles. Placing the operating heater in a foot well or on a seat is like putting the operating heater in a flammable cardboard box. With my heater<\/em> I can safely and comfortably hold my hand about 12 inches in front of the heater on low setting in a 65 degree room with no airflow restrictions. Thermometer shows ~100-110f degrees. My point<\/strong> is to not blow hot air of any temperature directly at a flammable surface, melt plastic, or start a fire.<\/p>\n

A room heater is not designed for this use.<\/strong> It requires adequate free space around it. With very good understanding of the dangers it worked for me. My concern is I am certainly not the only person who may try this.<\/p>\n

This IS NOT A RECOMENDATION!<\/strong> My comments here are to express the dangers in doing this.<\/p>\n

This is a very short term, supervised use of a 1500 Watt (run at 750 watts) room heater to thaw car windows in an ice over. DO NOT USE as a continious unattended overnight car warmer. It is safe only when the risks are fully understood.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I used my small 1500 watt electric room heater (using low 750 watt setting) to thaw out our two iced-over autos. Dry windows in about 1\/2 hour. One must of course have a long extension cord (I use for yard work) and access to 120 volt power. Safety Concerns The heater must be one with a finned ceramic block heat core and fan with NO RADIANT open filament emission meaning no light emission. Just warm...<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[217,52,219,216,187,218],"class_list":["post-5486","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-musing","tag-auto","tag-electrical","tag-heater","tag-ice","tag-safety","tag-thaw"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ramblindan.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5486","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ramblindan.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ramblindan.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ramblindan.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ramblindan.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5486"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ramblindan.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5486\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ramblindan.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5486"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ramblindan.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5486"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ramblindan.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5486"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}