Well I DID drive around 3 winters ago (was that the big one we had up here in B.C. Alistair??) with the buddy heater on as I drove around dropping people off in the 77 Westy as it was equipped with chains and went anywhere. The side note being that everyone ( 5 of us) had to keep wiping down the windows INSIDE as the condensation from them and the heater I guess was pretty phenomenal. With the opening and closing of the slider though we were never really that warm. :-(
Courtney

----- Original Message -----
From: Alistair Bell <albell@shaw.ca>
Date: Monday, November 8, 2010 5:26 pm
Subject: Re: Actual burn times with Mr Buddy MH9B (Little Buddy)
To: Courtney Hook <courtneyhook@SHAW.CA>
Cc: vanagon@GERRY.VANAGON.COM

> can you pmail my wife and tell her that? :)
>
> I apologise for derailing the original thread. But it is
> interesting
> to see how much water is produced by burning propane. I wish I
> had a
> Propex heater, especially for camping here in the cold moist PNW.
>
> The Propex (or similar vented heater) would help to drive off
> the
> moisture from the van (if you can have top vent open) when
> camping.
> You know what its like inthe winter, you do tend to spend more
> time
> in the (lack of light outside) and just getting in with snow or
> rain
> soaked clothes is going to introduce a lot of moisture.
>
> I'm interested in this right now as I am wondering about a home
> made
> pop top fly, and trying to apply lesson learned snow camping in tents.
>
> alistair
>
>
>
> On 8-Nov-10, at 3:54 PM, Courtney Hook wrote:
>
> OK so that is just Awesome, Alistair! Hmmm new name,
> Awesome
> Alistair? :-)
> I am truly impressed with that info; that's why we get so
> much
> moisture in
> the van; three cups is a LOT of water!!
> Regards,
> Courtney
>
> ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
> Always be yourself, because the people that matter don't mind,
> and the ones who mind, don't matter.
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "David Beierl" <dbeierl@ATTGLOBAL.NET>
> To: <vanagon@GERRY.VANAGON.COM>
> Sent: Monday, November 08, 2010 2:36 PM
> Subject: Re: Actual burn times with Mr Buddy MH9B (Little Buddy)
>
>
> > At 01:39 PM 11/8/2010  -0800, Alistair Bell wrote:
> >> almost 3 cups of water into the van in 6 hrs.
> >
> > Alistair and I agree it's in the neighborhood of eight people
> > sleeping on a 20+F night...
> >
> > Yrs,
> > D
>
>