| Well I bought myself a Coleman Blackcat catalytic | | | | high all the time. After about 30 minutes it warmed |
| heater to use in my portable ice fishing shelter. It's a | | | | up inside, but not warm enough to keep us warm |
| 4 person so I thought the Coleman Blackcat would | | | | and comfortable. With this heater you can move it |
| "take the edge off" inside and keep the Ice Cube | | | | around quite easily and we had to have it very close |
| alittle warm. I knew it wouldn't make it REAL hot | | | | to us to feel the little heat that it was giving off. It |
| inside, just nice to keep you from getting to cold. | | | | warms your hands and feet in time but the shelter |
| First off, I liked that it was small and compact to | | | | was still alittle to cool inside for my comfort zone. |
| keep in my fishing box. It runs on the small Coleman | | | | On colder days this heater won't stand up to keep a |
| propane bottles and lasts up to 7 hrs on 1 bottle. I | | | | portable ice shelter warm, thats my opinion. I'm going |
| used it on 2 fishing trips on 1 bottle for about 6 hrs in | | | | to use this heater now for camping season. Hopefully |
| total. That was using it on high all the time as well. | | | | it will keep a tent warm on a cool night out camping |
| The temperature outside for both times that I used | | | | this year. Don't get me wrong, its a good little heater |
| it was around -5 C, which isn't to cold in January but | | | | but didn't stand up when I used it ice fishing. I bought |
| it gets alot colder in Manitoba in January than that. I'm | | | | a bigger propane heater which I'll be trying out very |
| glad it wasn't -25 C ! So after setting up the portable | | | | soon and give a review on in the future. Also always |
| ice shelter, me and my wife started to fish. After | | | | remember to keep the area your in ventilated as you |
| sitting inside for about 2 hours, we started to get | | | | need fresh oxygen at all times. In my shelter I have |
| chilled. So I got the Blackcat out and sparked it up. | | | | a roof vent and kept the door unzipped alittle to |
| The max setting cranks out 3000 btu's so I left it on | | | | allow air inside at all times. |