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"Breathe-Easy" Platinum Catalytic Filter They are all gone, sold out. The Breathe Easy filters were made over two decades ago. The manufacturer priced them at about $20 and sold few before going bankrupt. My supplier purchase the residual inventory in bankruptcy proceedings. Several years ago I purchased all remaining stock and sold them all. There will be no more of them, but it is possible that a few may turn up on eBay or similar forums.
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leave this page up for those who have a Breathe Easy Installation instructions for Modern Heaters, click here. Example of installation in a radiant heater Installation in Perfection heater and Aladdin Blue Flame heater
The "Breathe Easy" Platinum Catalytic Filter is a platinum-coated screen, 6 inches in diameter, which is hung by three stainless steel wires to just above the flame on a kerosene heater burner unit, as shown in the illustration above, right side. It was designed to reduce odors and films and help a kerosene heater burn cleanly. Installation is not difficult, and the unit comes with installation instructions. (Thanks to Knox Crowell for these enhanced instructions!) The Breathe Easy is rigid mounted (see below) or hung by the supplied wires and should be at least 1'' above a flame spreader or catalytic converter burner unit to allow normal airflow for proper combustion. Do you need a "Breathe Easy" Platinum Catalytic Filter? A properly adjusted kerosene heater with a tall catalytic converter (burner unit) already burns extremely clean. However, there are some circumstances in which a "Breathe Easy" can be useful: (1) Those who have a heater with a short burner unit (early KeroSun heaters); (2) who have particular lung problems; (3) burn a kerosene heater all night long in a well-sealed house to keep the chill off the house; or (4) who burn poor quality "red dye" kerosene, may find the Breathe Easy a handy accessory. Some very nice people have used the Breathe Easy and report great results. The "Breathe Easy" Platinum Catalytic Filter is 6 inches wide and will not fit some heaters, such as the "Moonlighter" and Omni 15, without cutting off the stiff wire around the screen. It would be neither fair nor objective for me to give illustrations of the use and installation of a Breathe Easy Catalytic Filter using my own heaters, so the examples given below are unsolicited examples sent to me by my customers. Please note that flame spreader heaters such as the Perfection and Aladdin Blue Flame shown below can indeed make the Breathe Easy glow red, whereas installation in a modern catalytic converter style heater usually does not show any glow at all from the Breathe Easy. The reason for this is that flame spreader design heaters produce ALL of their heat from the flame above the flame spreader. Modern radiant heaters use a catalytic converter to absorb virtually all of the heat and reflect it into a room. The heat output for both types of heaters is about 10,000 BTU/hr, but the heat is distributed in an entirely different way. An illustration of a dimly glowing Breathe Easy Catalytic Filter on a radiant heater is below. Independent test results using the Breathe Easy in a Perfection heater: "The (tests) indicate an expected reduction of Carbon Monoxide by about 85% and Hydrocarbon emissions by almost 100%. Observed performance showed no impact on heat output or visual impact of the flame nor Flame Spreader. Shutdown produced only a brief whiff of fumes then just decreasing clean heat until unit cooled down. Catalytic disc stayed in place during the lighting process with the chimney laid on its bail handle. Conclusions: The ability of the Perfection heaters utilizing the #500 wick to come up to full operating temperature quicker than a modern kerosene heater is an advantage. With the Catalytic filter disc in place, the unit can be shut down without filling a room with un-burnt kerosene fumes." https://groups.yahoo.com/neo/groups/KeroseneHeaterandStoveCollector/conversations/topics/3647 Below is the article, stolen from Kerosene Heater and Stove Collector Forum, Greg Hall, author and photographer of this article. Catalytic Filter Upgrade For
Perfection Kerosene Heaters Utilizing #500 Wick Assembly.
Observed performance showed no impact on heat output or visual
impact of the flame nor Flame Spreader. Shutdown produced only a
brief whiff of fumes then just decreasing clean heat until unit
cooled down. Catalytic disc stayed in place during the lighting
process with the chimney laid on its bail handle.
Breathe Easy Catalytic Filter installation in Haller and Aladdin Blue_Flame heaters by Manfred Koster, the Netherlands
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Breathe Easy installed in an Aladdin TR2000 - The minimum clearance should be one inch, as shown below, to allow normal airflow and proper combustion.
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