I’m struggling with my MR FUNNEL though. It only just squeezes into the tank opening and doesn’t allow for air to escape from the tank as it fills. I will have to modify this in someway. Does filtering help reduce the odour?? I have no connection with the European Source i’m recommending whatsoever, other than being a satisfied customer of theirs, i’m purely offering this link out of goodwill so you too can save some money off the high prices which we are currently being charged for paraffin inverter heaters here in the UK. I have my doubts about how effective the Cherry Fragrance will be, certainly not enough confidence to buy 2000 litres of it just on description alone without trying, but again there is no harm in giving it a try if you want to make that committment, I can’t see how a tiny amount of what will probably be some kind of Fragranced Essential oil based product will damage a heater, will the supplier sell you a small sample of this to try before buying 2000 litres worth? – they should do, assuming they have any confidence in their product!.

This is where my own experiences begin, I have a rural property which is outside of the mains gas area and doesn’t have any form of central heating, the property is insulated and has double glazing, however it suffers from one handicap, the fact that it has electric storage heaters. Those who have storage heaters will already know, that come winter they are extremely inflexible, increasingly expensive to run and by around 5pm or 6pm they have exhausted all of their useful heat and once night falls, the room rapidly becomes cold. Electricity is supplied on Economy 7 or Economy 10 tariffs, and although these tariff’s give you seven to ten hours of cheap overnight electricity, the cost of the Electricity during the normal day (peak) periods is significantly more expensive than on a standard non economy 7 tariff. Up to three or four times higher per unit in fact!. Failing that, you can buy Kerosene scent, which you add to Kerosene to sweeten the smell when burning, inevitably they only seem to be available in Pine, which makes the room smell like toilet cleaner, but they do work. This will only mask the issue of course rather than solving it, but may be the only option if the above advice doesn’t work, and you don’t feel confident about servicing the heater. E4 / E2 / E0 codes are displayed when contaminated fuel or poor combustion is detected. It’s caused by one of two things. The heat it puts out is impressive and once to room has warmed up, I switch it to “MIN’ and it keeps the temperature around my desired level for most of the evening.Yes - I too had a cable run to my workshop (used to be a garage!) and to my shed - a 10mm armoured cable protected with RCDs and a cement fillet at the bottom of at the north facing wall. From my shed I ran a lightweight JoJo reel to the GH (cable clipped to the 6ft boundary wall & fused 1 amp.) This is used solely for powering my 3 electric propagators. I also ran another extension lead to run a fan heater from w/shop to GH on a thermostat to keep the GH at 7-10 degrees when there is a risk of frost. It has proved to be effective and relatively inexpensive to run, though the initial installation expense of the 10mm armoured cable from the house to my workshop (which I needed because of the amount of machinery & equipment I use in there) did make me think long and hard - but in those days I was running a business and common sense + safety dictated it had to be done. The benefit to me now I've retired is that I have all I will ever need as regards power supply in workshop and shed. I read that standard Paraffin / Kerosene fuel burning at almost 100% efficiency will produce at least 10kw of heat from every litre of Paraffin / Kerosene it consumes with all of that heat going into the room (its actually 10.3kw of heat per litre but lets not quibble). So lets do the maths, and let me actually prove the savings to you from my own personal experiences. As for fuel… I have found three different places to buy forecourt pumped heating oil locally and the prices range from 52p to 64ppl. Ill have to go with these prices for the time being until my friend swaps her system over to mains gas and I get to drain the tank. Other than that, Im going to have a long wait for 40ppl oil from when my neighbour gets his next delivery. The search continues… There are a couple of possibilities here. First of all it could simply be stale or contaminated fuel, and just like Diesel, Kerosene can be affected by bacteria growth in the fuel when stored for extended periods or in less than ideal conditions. Has the fuel that you are using currently been stored in the machine fuel tank over the summer?, Kerosene (Heating Oil) whether in the home or retail environment should be stored in an airtight container out of direct heat or sunlight, equally it could have been stored for several months in tanks at the Vendor in less than ideal conditions and I, myself, have had fuel from yards in the past which has been in tanks which previously were used for (and so contaminated with) small quantities of red diesel or other fuels which gave rise to running issues, which were corrected when a new batch of fuel was used. So my first piece of advice would be to start with the basics and try a new batch of fuel, ideally from another vendor if possible. These filters are excellent at filtering out water and dirt, but they won’t help at all in cases of stale or fuel which has been contaminated by other fuels or bacteria growth. Requires 240v supply to power electronic ignition, thermostatic controls & electronic fan which blows out the heat.

This means, that when the Economy 7 storage heaters inevitably run out of heat, by around late afternoon or early evening, or the weather turns unexpectedly chilly some other form of ‘top up’ heating is required which is often also electrically powered, such as a convector heater, panel heater, fan heater or oil filled radiator. Was the Kerosene new fuel, or was it aged fuel drained from an Heating Oil tank?. I’ve never had a problem with either of my heaters in relation to a smell, apart from perhaps one minute either side of switching the heater on and off, where it would give out the Jet Fuel type smell. Like I said before, Kerosene is from the same family as Jet-A1 fuel, hence the very similar smell when they combust, it seems strange that you are getting the smell when its running though, i’ve never experienced that personally ( nor have any of my Visitors, unless they are just too polite to say anything!). I only get the smell during the start up and shut down procedure.

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