How to mak your own candle powered space heater for Winter

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Thanks OP for sharing. I`m watching the video now!

No worries. I like sharing information that can help my fellow humans.

Oh in the cv machine ? I have no food at the door.

So fucking dont make it.

Who the hell you talking to, Wood Shoes?

Awesome! This is a great little project. I'm already thinking of a large scale design! Thanks OP!

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Unfortunately it does not provide any more heat than a candle by its lonesome.

The candle heats the air in the simple case.

The candle heats the pot which heats the air.

In either case the max heat is a candle which does not provide much heat.

All goes back to the "no such thing as a free lunch"

You have a point however because the heat is being transfered to a conductive material with a large surface area, the heat is being focused and radiated. I'd be willing to bet you that if you did an ambient temperature test with just a candle in the room and then with this space heater you'd find the room with the space heater would be warmer.

Lets go all the way...

You may be right, but for the cost of this project and maybe adding two or three candles, I am going to give it a go.

Buy a decent rated outdoor sleeping bag.

You aren't going to keep your pipes from freezing with a candle.

If you live in an area that is prone to cold temperature extremes, then you should already have a wood stove or fireplace etc.

If not, move.

I like burning candles in the cool months and they do put off quiet a bit of heat.I have found that putting the candle shades and globes they now sell that sets down on top of the jar really adds heat.Also even the little votive sized will give off more heat placed down inside a glass or metal holder since it heats the holder.

Very cool.

Should be able to heat a 10x10 space easily. Build a second one and you are good to go through a night.

Recapture the wax drippings in a cup and make another candle.

I think this work.
You can also place some waxine lights in an room,
it will heat up the room.

If you drive in your car in the winter it is always a good advice to have some waxine lights in your car.
When the engine stops for some reason 1 or 2 waxinelights can heat up the car interior.
imagine you have to wait for hours in your car while it's freezing outside, then you are happy with the waxine lights.

The candle gives off the same amount of heat with or without the pots/metal/bricks. What the pots do is trap some of the heat nearer the floor as well as store heat in the thermal mass of the pots and metal and bricks, putting a heat-radiative object closer to where people actually live. Without the pots and bricks, the heat would all float right up to the ceiling, where it wouldn't do much for anyone except Spider-man.

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You can also make a freezer out of terra cotta pots.

I bought some of the cast iron oriental style candle holders. They usually only have a place to hold one tea-lite candle, but you can adapt them by cutting a cardboard square to fit the interior of the candle holder and covering it with aluminum foil. Place the square inside the candle holder and it gives enough flat space to place 6-8 tea-lite candles instead of one.

When the candles burn, they heat up the cast iron exterior and generate a fair amount of heat. If one per room is not sufficient, you can use more (depending on the size of the room).

I have cats, so the cast iron exterior has the advantage of being too heavy for a cat to knock over.

Tea-lites are cheap and burn about 4 hours. Due to their small size you can store a lot of them in a small space.

I've had the opportunity to use them a few times when the power went out for a day or so during the winter and they were pretty adequate. They keep a room fairly warm....not toasty, but livable.

It's a good source of heat for people who live in apartments and don't have the option of installing wood stoves or using propane heaters (with no place to store propane tanks).

As for cooking, a cast iron Hibachi grill (about $50.00 at Wal-Mart) and sterno will cook a meal just as easily and quickly as a stove. It is also a good source of heat.

A one candle power heater is not going to do much in a cold room.

The plant pots suspended over it will give no gains.

A chiller, not a freezer, this one does work in keeping stuff cooler than ambient.

well the pots probably make it safer

Awful lot of inconsiderate a**holes on here. Thanx for posting the vid for making the heater.
FYI igmos, with just a burning candle, all the heat from the flame goes DIRECTLY TO THE CEILING and INTO THE ATTIC! This heater stops the heat from escaping the room thru the ceiling and radiates it at throughout the room instead of all the heat going up thru the ceiling.

Power output of a candle flame (heat & light) is about 80 watts - 1 bar electric fire is 1000 watts.

A typical person gives out approx 100 watts in body heat.

True however, the combustion process CAN be made more efficient. Meaning a raw candle will not put out as much heat in comparison to the mentioned device.

The candle does pump out more unburnt fuel versus a fire with a vortex chamber to thoroughly burn all the fuel.

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Just buy a kerosene heater.

Which means that it's all Ronald Ragan's fault.