WARNING OF FLOWER POT CANDLE HEATERS!

Hello, I am making this video with the intention that it will possibly save somebody's life here we have a candle heater it is basically a terracotta pot with another one inside and a whole series of nuts and washers attached to a bolt which runs through now firstly let me begin by saying that these heaters are very very effective at dealing with condensation in an environment like on a boat all this condensation here now on the windows if I'd been using this heater throughout the night there will be zero condensation they are extremely effective at dealing away with a condensation this terracotta pot on top gets very hot and the bolt here gets so hot that you can't touch it in this case this was attached to a chain because it's on a yacht(out of water). Now please take note of this because these are extremely dangerous devices the tea lights inside generate about 40 watts each so that's four in there now so there is about a hundred and sixty watts of heat. The heat in here get so intense now what you actually create is a bomb now the paraffin inside these kettle lights very quickly melts it turns into liquid as the candle works. Those ones aren't quite there yet because I only lit this a few minutes ago to demonstrate, now let me explain how these are dangerous. These kettle lights, tealights whichever you want to call them they should never be less than eight centimeters apart in this case they are near on right next to each other. What happens is theres two scenarios that can unfold because the wax turns to liquid the intense heat creates the possibility for those liquids in each pot to ignite, however, if the wax liquid wax would leak out and get into this tray at the bottom it then comes down the bar inside and you can never get rid of it now I had a fire with one of these and that exact scenario happened the wax leaked out and it came down the shaft of this studing here and during the night it flash flared the whole thing ignited all the paraffin wax inside the saucer ignited and the flames came reaching out all the way up they came so high that they actually melted this hook now look at the damage it did here it was exactly the same thing it was hanging on that hole there and ignited in the night and really burn the boat down now as I say these heaters are extremely effective at dealing with condensation however they are exceedingly dangerous you must never ever use tea lights that close together now despite saying this i still use this device because as I say does deal with the conversation however i only use one tea light at a time but even then there is a danger because the heat that gets generated from this device is really quite remarkable it is intense heat this pot here once it's been running for 10 minutes you can't hold it that bar there it is impossible to touch it without burning your fingers so please please please if you're going to make one of these do not under any circumstances put multiple tea lights in and never ever leave it unattended. The possibility for this to ignite and flash flare is extremely high. These are not so these are not safe devices and even though they may be aesthetically pleasing and very effective in many ways they are totally utterly lethal they are very very dangerous if you use these at some point the possibility of having a fire erupt within the actual liquid wax itself is extremely high these are very very dangerous I had a lucky escape please don't make the same mistake

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Length: 4min 50sec (290 seconds)

Published: Wed Nov 05 2014