Texsport Portable Outdoor Propane

I use a tent in the back of my pickup. I didn’t realize how well the heater was working until I ran out of fuel at 2am 27 degrees. It ran about 7 hours on medium setting.

I just spent a week with this little guy and a Mr Heater in a non insulated tent with a fly that barely covered the top mesh vents. It got down to freezing every night and having something like this was great and made the camping trip easy to endure the cold nights.The heat this puts out is mostly infrared heat, you point it at what you want warmed up and it warms it up so it's great for instant heat or warming you up quickly if it's pointed directly at you. In a tent, whatever it's pointed at warms up, then that in turn warms the air. Mr Heater has some radiant heat, but it mostly heats with convection with warm air rising straight up from it. Both work fine, but if I could only have one heater, this one would be the one I use for camping.Another bonus, on a 1lb bottle, this will last 7-8 hours on low. Mr Heater drinks up a bottle in less than four hours on low.Cons... not much, mine didn't come with a guard over the burner, but i'm sure that's a one off.It's a bit loud when it's the only thing out in woods making noise, but that's nitpicking.Doesn't have a built in starter.Pros-- quick heater, works great. Whatever you point it at warms up quickly, it will heat up a tent or small space quickly, depending on the size of the area. My larger tent that is overly drafty for winter took about 30 minutes. A small tent would probably warm in up in just a few minutes.Sips on propane on the low setting, very convenient.Lightweight, easy to pack.

Run time on low(plenty hot) is 6+ hours. My garage is not insulated in the attic or exterior wall, but this keeps it a toasty 60-70*F when it is 30-40 degrees at night. Allowed me to paint my truck and work on the interior while wearing a t-shirt. This is a nice simple unit with little to fail. You'll need a lighter or match to ignite the burner which is on the grill. Less to fail is great. As always, have proper ventilation when using propane appliances. The thermocoupler on mine wasnt adjusted right, letting you start and immediately release the safety valve. And I wanted that feature to function so I adjusted it. Just took a couple turns to get the thermocouple one quarter of and inch further away from the burner.

Enough time has passed that I’m just now at the point of not being able to return this thing. Living in Florida you don’t need much heat. But our mornings and evenings are cool this time of the year. So, I bought this thing. It did burn propane. And it produced heat. You had to be right up on it to feel it. I finished my first 16oz bottle of propane tonight and attached a new bottle. This thing won’t work. The flame did sputter a little then stopped. I’m done. I tried numerous times to light this thing . It’s gone. I kind of feel like the guy who keeps repeating the same steps hoping for a different outcome. Don’t be that guy!

I really liked it while it worked, but a couple months in and now it won't light, despite the fact it's free-flowing gas even without the valve open, filling my shop with unburned propane fumes in seconds. As the no-flame shutoff is essential to not meeting a firey end and does not reliably work, I sadly have to deem this product extremely unsafe.

Tried to use this to heat up our trailer while camping in the fall. I had a window open to bring in Oxygen and only planned on leaving it on for maybe an hour just to heat the trailer. It produced so much smoke within 30 seconds the fire alarm in the trailer already went off. Heating a pot of water on the stove produces more heat throughout the trailer then this dinky thing. I can see using it for a soccer or football game watching your kids and maybe hunting but I wouldn’t even feel safe putting this in a tent with it ventilated. The smell it produces is toxic.

Bought this to use with those Coleman 1lb propane bottles before a November camping trip in the mountains with snow on the ground. Daytime temps were ~60F nighttime temps were ~28F. Used this heater in a Coleman 6 person Montana tent with all flaps closed except one cracked open on main window (ceiling is all mesh with rain cover over it) and was actually comfortable throughout the two nights with no issues. You definitely need good sleeping bags and blankets, but it keeps the tent from being miserable. First night I used the heater on low setting on a new tank and got 8.5 hours out of it. Second night I got a 7.5 hour burn on medium setting. I suppose high setting would be 6.5 hours? It kept the tent warmer than outside, by quite a bit. I didn't measure outside and inside temps, but if I had to guess it was somewhere in the low 50's inside the tent and high 20's outside. We had two people and four dogs inside, so that probably influenced temps too.Heater is a bit fragile and although it has paddle feet as shown, could tip over easily. We put it smack in the middle of an all wire dog cage (2.5' x 4') so that the dogs or us couldn't get near it or tip it over, worked perfectly. The run time on low was a full night, on the other settings you're going to have to replace the tank once in the morning. It did shut off gas when the flame went out due to low propane level in tank, so that feature worked well. We noticed that the sound is noticeable, like a gas range burner in your kitchen all night long. You do have to manually light it once to get it going, use a match.Overall, excellent heater. Time will tell for it's reliability, but for performance it worked above expectations, especially for the ~$40 we spent on it. I do recommend!

I love this too. It connects in 10 seconds flat. It has a red push button, that I figured was an electronic ignition, but it is just a "primer" button that has to be held in while lighting with a match. Has four stabilizing"feet that slidu out of the base. It can't just fall over without good hard bump.