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I bought the smallest Chinese diesel heater there is, 2kw.
It's still too powerful for the relatively small space of my van(l2h2).
It does have a thermostate but when it reaches the set temperature it goes to the lowest mode, but still keeps on heating... The thermostat doesn't turn it off because it would cost too much electricity to use the glow plug every time.
When it's freezing outside (literally) I set the timer of the heater so it turns on and off once in the middle of the night, and runs for an hour or so, problem is that the ramping up of the fan and the ticking of the pump wakes you up.Edit: I still love it though, it's great to heat up the van just before going asleep and before getting out of bed in the morning and it's useful to the get some of the moisture out in the winter too.
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The problem with gas heaters is that the cheap ones don't have a proper thermostat and the lowest setting on the tap is too high for a small space. Even the cheapest diesel ones have some sort of control electronics.