- Adjustable high-low temperature setting
- Electronic ignition for quick and easy matchless lighting
- Portable easy-to-grip handle makes heater easy to carry
- Compact legs integrate into collar for easy storage
- 3,000 BTU output operates up to seven hours from one 16.4 ounce propane cylinder (not included)
Product Description
Heater, BlackCat E.I. Catalytic 3,000 BTUProduct Description
The Coleman 5038-850 BlackCat Perfectemp Catalytic Propane Heater with InstaStart Technology provides you with comfortable warmth indoors or in a tent. This catalytic heater has an electronic ignition which is not only quicker and easier that using a match, but is much more reliable in cold, windy weather.
This Coleman BlackCat heater is incredibly portable for its heat output, with an easy-to-grip handle that makes it easy to carry, and compact legs that integrate into its collar for easy storage. The BlackCat’s 3,000 BTU output will operate for up to seven hours on one 16.4 ounce cylinder of propane (not included).
Manufacturer Warranty
Limited lifetime warranty
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I read all of the comments on tent heaters and apparently none of you are old enough to remember drive-in theaters. In the winter months, the drive-in operators put a similar propane heater on your car that hung on the inside of your window. This gave off enough heat to keep me and my gal warm enough to be able to get cozy enough to make our own heat.
Rating: 5 / 5
The Coleman 5038-850 BlackCat Perfectemp Catalytic Propane Heater with Instastart Technology is great for the cold first days of the Division I college baseball season. It keeps the toes toasty warm and enough heat radiates upward for body warmth.
Rating: 4 / 5
We really like are blackcat heater. We took it hunting with us in oct. it was really cold out and we slept in are tent, it didn’t take it long to heat up the tent.At night we would stay in our tent to play games the temp outside was 36 degress. Well worth the purchase.
Rating: 5 / 5
The Coleman 5038-850 BlackCat Perfectemp Catalytic Propane Heater is an excellent value for the money, and it was delivered in only 3 days after I placed my order! Outstanding service Amazon!!! I have used the heater twice already in my camper and am highly satisfied. True, it does not make it warm enough inside the camper to bake cookies, but it takes the chill and dampness off, which is all I needed it for.
Rating: 5 / 5
I bought this before a camping trip I was taking in late September in Wisconsin where the weather is usually cool and damp at night. I have a large 8 person tent and was pretty impressed on how well the heater kept the tent warm. With the temp outsite the tent in the lo 50′s, I was very comfortable inside with just shorts & a t-shirt.
I did some investigation into the heater before I purchased it and one of the recomendations was to burn a tank of propane thru it before you really need to in order to get rid of an odor that seems to come from the new ones (in which it is a funky odor). I don’t think you need to burn a whole tank, but maybe half a tank. I had a half a tank laying around so I used that and it seemed to work.
Another thing I noticed is they say it will use a whole bottle in about 8 hours. I would say maybe 7. If I started the heater around 9 PM around 4 – 4:30 it would start getting chilly in the tent because the heater ran out of gas. I would just quick change the bottle and start it back up and just go back to sleep. It does have a lower setting and it would have probably lasted longer if I would have set it on that.
One more thing I did before buying the heater I Googled catalytic Propane Heaters and was given a link to the Consumer Product Potection Agency investigation on propane heaters and I was very confident about putting this in a closed space and not worry about Carbon Monoxide.
Rating: 5 / 5