My final parting words the flowerpot does not increase the amount of heat just its usefulness.
Tea light tent heater.
Use an end table that stands well under the height of your tent.
Light your tea lights and place them close together in the middle of the roasting tray.
Tea lights are made of paraffin wax and are commonly about 38 mm in diameter and 16 mm high and burn for 3 to 5 hours per wikipedia.
According to wikipedia a single tealight has an energy output of about 100 btu hr.
However a candle heater is more than enough to warm up some icy fingers.
Using tea light candles to heat your tent although it may seem like an unlikely solution tea light candles can prove to be a great heat source.
Overall it beats occasionally having to start the car to run the heater.
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So let s suppose a space heater would take one hour to heat the room up.
While the flower pot does increase the effectiveness of the candles as heaters a few calculations can show how little heat it actually produces.
I ll get actual temp readouts soon.
However this method will have the most success when used in a smaller tent.
Thus you actually would need fifty candles to heat the room as efficiently as a space heater instead of just four.
The tea lights run for over 3 5hrs and cost as little as 0 99 cents for a 20 count pack.
If you re going to be burning a candle for light anyways you may as well have a heater core above it to trap the heat too.
Place the trivit so it is sitting on the edges of the roasting tray above the tea lights not sitting on its legs in the tray as it would normally be used.
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A small space heater capable of heating a small room is 5000 btu hr.
This also comes with a little kink which is worked in for safety but it depends on how you view it.
And make you feel a bit warmer as well.
This was definitely a worthwhile project and will be very useful in our tent during winter camping.