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geo17

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haven't ice fished all that much since i moved up from fla. i ahve always used the mr heater connected to a 20lb cylinder. went out last night and about 2 hrs into fishing my eyes really started watering up and burning. now they are puffy and itchy. when i got done my mr heater came apart in the middle. is this common, and if it is has anyone else had this experience and should i buy another heater?

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A friend had a heater(sunflower style) that was not burning quite right and our eyes would start to burn and I would started getting a headache. 1st off get out and get some fresh air!!! If you aren't gonna leave make sure you vent better and then figure why it isn't burning properly. We never figured out why his did that, we just started bringing my heater.

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If the valve came apart you'll need a new one. If the tube fell off then screw it back on and lock it with the thumb nut.

Since it fell off I'd guess and say the air mixture was out of wack and gave off noxious exhaust.

The screen on the sunflower needs to be clean. Driving down the road with the sunflower attached to your tank will get road crud on that screen. Rust will do the same thing. Your heater won't burn efficiently then. The sunflower needs to burn bright orange. If the orifice is plugged it can't get the correct amount of fuel to burn hot enough, end result burning eyes and headache. Heres another scenario, using a sunflower in a small house. Set on low the heater is too hot. Someone figured out that if you turn the valve down on the tank to almost off they can regulate the heat lower then its lowest set point. Again the sunflower isn't burning hot enough and gives off the noxious fumes.

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It's possible that it's the nitrous oxides from the combustion process that's burning your eye's. Could be the hydrocarbons too.

Carbon monoxide just doesn't come from your tank and it wouldn't matter if it's 1/4 or 3/4 full. Carbon monoxide comes from combustion that's lacks the oxygen molecule to form carbon dioxide.

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My guess would be that your heater is simply burning too hot which in turn is producing either nitrous dioxide or nitrous trioxide gas, which when it hit your eyes formed a very mild nitric acid. It also sounds like ozone gas could be the problem, but I dont think that would be produced in an ice house for multiple reasons. It probably wouldn't be the hydrocarbons, thats whats burning to produce the CO and CO2 + water.

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