Can the Little Buddy Heater Heat My Cabin? - Episode 68

all right I'm here at the cabin and uh I'm getting ready to turn in for the night um but it's pretty chilly it gets down to uh in the 30s at night here this time of year even though it warms up into the 50s during the day it's pretty chilly at night so I've got this buddy heater and this is the Little Buddy Heater and uh it says that it heats up to 95 Square ft and uh this cabin is it's just under 120 ft it's like 116 Square ft but if I uh close off this back area um that cuts the square footage down quite a bit so so if we take a look here looks like it gets up to 3800 BTUs one canister if it's full should last up to 5.6 hours this has a patented self-extinguishing protection system that includes a low oxygen sensor and a temp over protection and that makes this an indoor safe heater all right so let's uh open this guy up we'll take a look inside looks like we've got our manual we've got our base got the heater itself and uh that is about it okay I've got this brand new uh tank propane tank it's a one PB so all you have to do is screw this in here on the bottom get it in there nice and tight set it into the base and uh these things are really easy to uh turn on all you have to do is push this red button and that's how you start the pilot light you can see the pilot light is on and then you have to hold the the red button down for 30 seconds while it gets nice and primed primed so I'll hold that down and then once you let go of the uh red button that's when uh when the flame ignites okay and you can see that it has ignited bring you a little closer you can see that the flame has gone up into the element and uh I'm starting to feel some heat come off of this so the heating area is out and up so yeah I can feel a lot of heat above it I can actually feel more more heat above it than in front of it but that's to be expected so what I'm going to do is I'm going to place this in the corner over here on the floor and let that heat up the whole [Music] cabin and if I can get 5 hours out of that uh that ought to be pretty good so I'm going to go ahead and uh turn in and I'll let you know how it did in the morning all right just got up and uh started up another propane tank so how did it do last night well when I got up this morning it was 31° outside and 56° inside it's gone up a degree since I started another propane tank I did get some condensation on the Windows which is to be expected from uh propane heat but uh yeah I slept comfortable all night long and when I got up it was 56° so that's not too bad all right this uh tank is still running it's been about 3 and 1 half hours that it's been running and the temperature outside is gone up to 49 and 71 on the inside so uh yeah that can definitely Heat this uh small cabin so I was able to get uh over 5 hours I don't think I quite got 5.6 but uh probably 5 and A4 um hours out of a single tank and um this little buddy heater consistently kept my cabin between 30 and 35° warmer than the outside temperature in fact uh during the day uh I actually had to turn it off and open up a window in order to cool the cabin off it got so hot it got up to like 78 degrees so yeah this is as small as it is um it actually um went beyond the 85 squ ft capacity that it has and uh heated up my 116t cabin just fine all right what are some things that I like about this little buddy heater I like that it's small and compact it's lightweight it's easy to move around it starts really easy and it'll run for over 5 hours on a single 16 lb uh propane tank what are some things that I don't like about the Little Buddy Heater um I don't like the fact that it uses the one PB canister as a stand because that prevents you from being able to connect this to a 20 lb tank if you wanted to run it for more than 5 hours at a time and I also don't like the fact that there are currently no fans that will work with this little buddy heater so you don't have a a method of pushing that hot air around to heat your cabin up quicker or your room up quicker um it takes about 45 minutes for this to warm up uh my cabin from like 45° up to 65° um that's not that big of a deal but um if if you want some you know instant heat you're not going to get that with this uh little buddy so what I recommend uh the Little Buddy Heater uh yes I would it does exactly what it says it does in fact it does it better than it says it does so you know despite uh not being able to hook it up to a 20 lb tank or the lack of fan option um I I really like this little buddy heater and uh I'm going to use this to heat my cabin um all winter long so uh if you guys are interested in this there'll be a link in the description and uh I am an Amazon affiliate so I do earn a small Commission on anything that you purchase through one of my links uh it doesn't change the price um but I do get a commission so I appreciate uh anytime you guys click on any of my Amazon links but that's going to do it for this video so I'll talk to you guys later