Kerosene Fan Heaters

A brief look at a Japanese Kerosene Fan Heater. This is now many Japanese households are kept warm during winter months. Kerosene is often sold at gas stations and hardware stores. These are not to be run while sleeping since they are dangerous.

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Education

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• Japan
• Japanese
• heating
• heater
• fan
• kerosene
• stove

[rsea910]

this was a interesting video. I still use a old perfection kerosene heater. works good. i didn't realize modern kerosene heaters were all computerized and such!! Nice video!

[justanotherjet]

Thanks!

[xxl606]

What's the point of having a kerosene heater if you anyway have to open a window or an exhaust fan which sucks all the hot air out :l

Anyway, how long can it run with the tank full?

[justanotherjet]

I agree actually :/ Keeping your place warm and not poisoning yourself is a bit of a balancing act. Most units advise you to only open a window about once every hour. I used to crack a window just enough to let some air in.

Using the heater only in the morning and evenings I think a tank would last me about 1-2 weeks

[LeoBurns728]

Where can I go to buy this particular model?

[justanotherjet]

Any "National" shop in Japan should have something similar.

[MissVeronikaBlack]

You can run kerosene heaters at night, even though they tell you not to. Why is it any more dangerous at night than it is during the day? If I didn't run mine at night, I'd freeze to death.

Just make sure there's nothing around it that's flammable, keep a window cracked, and as long as you have a CO detector and a smoke alarm... you're fine. And if you live in a drafty older house like me, you don't even need to crack a window.. my CO detector always sits at 0 ppm.

[blondemax]

@hitachi088 you get the point though :)

[hitachi088]

@blondemax north of canada? if you think that is civilized go and get a dictionary...

[blondemax]

@hitachi088 Because your in a civilised nation and have gas

[hitachi088]

why dont we have those in canada?

[lostindiancamp]

I really don't understand these units. They run on electricity and gas. You have ot open a door or window to ventilate the gas, which makes the room even colder. Doesn't Japan have an electric radiator unit for sale?

[kalevraa]

there is no need to worry overmuch about carbon monoxide with these modern heaters. they sense when the air quality gets low and beep to let you know, and if you do nothing they switch themselves off. i used these during the `12 years i lived in japan, and never got as much as a headache using them. in the usa people seem to be rather paranoid about kerosene heaters indoors --often the same people who think nothing about spraying the shit out of their houses with cancer-causing chemicals.

[WDEVN]

Thanks for this post in English. I live in Taiwan and it can get cold here, too. It doesn't get as cold as in parts of Japan, but it can get as low as 8C in Taipei.

Anyway, I just got a Dainichi FX-676LX and it works great. Instructions came in both Japanese and Chinese. I can't read Japanese. I'm not Chinese, but I can read Chinese. However, I felt there was some bits lost in the translation. Also, I got a battery powered pump from Rakuten and it pumps fast.

[smurfboywv]

Why don't today's kerosene heaters have blowers?