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I am an AVID camper. If I camped anymore I would need a mailbox on my hood. It gets cold in the NW and when I heard about catalytic heaters I felt ‘Wow!, I gotta have one!!!’ So. . . being the careful person I am about new and supposedly great products. . . bought a Coleman ’sportcat’ Cat. heater. Let me give you an analogy: I love a bacon and egg breakfast. But if the eggs smelled rotten. . . or the bacon smelled like a pig-pen you can bet I would skip it! And so with this heater. . . A great idea and it heats pretty good(I used it in the back of my big old chevy van. . . . BUT THE SMELL THIS THING PUTS OUT IS TERRIBLE. I paid about $13. 00 less for it(30 days ago)than the cheapest price offered here. . . but the smell ruins the bargain; and even the idea. I went back to my homemade alcohol burner(even though it requires greater ventilation)which works like a charm and has an odor but NOTHING like the metallic/oily weirdness that the cat heater puts out! If it is that bad on the smaller/1500 btu model I don’t know HOW anybody can stand the larger output models? This made everything in my van smell so bad(I am a very clean living AND camping person)that I had to strike sulpher head matches to cover and finally neutralise the odor! Up till buying the Cat heater. . . I only ever used those matches to cover a DIFFERENT smell(;. If you know what I mean! I work with solvents as a printer and even most glues and paints do not bother me. This cat heater smell is on par with a cat box(!) as far as I am concerned. I took it back and got my money back with the complaint that Coleman does not(and absolutely SHOULD do so!)mention the remarkable smell these put out. I would use this product again IF I thought the option was freezing to death. . . or if everybody else would understand the stink it leaves behind(and on the user!). Otherwise. . . no thanks. I even read the other reviews on this(before I bought one) and like products and kind of poo-pooed the other complaint about the smell being strong. That reviewer was right! Too bad. . . I thought I had discovered a welcome additon to my love for camping. If you can sleep with some pot-pourie(sp?)shoved up your nose; or you have no friends who can smell. . . none of this will matter. Most people would not stay in aroom or house that smells like this cat heater makes a room/space smell. NOT ME!!! Your call.
Rating: 1 / 5

it does exactly what i wanted it for , works perfectly , would recommend this product
Rating: 5 / 5

This Coleman heater is amazing. It did a great job of heating our pop-up camper. I really like the self lighting feature. If it lasts like my other Coleman gear I’ll enjoy it for a long time.
Rating: 5 / 5