Electric MRE heater? Huh?

donelurkin · Post by **donelurkin** » Fri Jun 16, 2006 2:47 am

Was trolling for MREs on ebay and found this listing for a "Genuine US Military Electric MRE Heater." Never heard of such a thing. Here is the link. What's the deal? Legit or should I have posted under ebay asshats...

http://cgi.ebay.com/Genuine-US-Military ... dZViewItem

dermeister025 · Post by **dermeister025** » Fri Jun 16, 2006 3:32 am

I think this thing is in fact legit, i've seen pics of them in various places on the net (maybe here? can't recall) but at any rate what the seller doesn't mention, perhaps doesn't know either, is that this unit is most likely 24 volt operated. So if you drive a Komatsu haultruck or a Cat Dozer you'll be alright but not so good in the pickup when you're out bush tourin!

Garron · Post by **Garron** » Fri Jun 16, 2006 4:13 am

i can see the usefulness in it, the MRE heaters give off hydrogen and sitting in the back of a Bradley

(i think thats the UA armys APC) fulled with Hydrogen wouldnt be such a good thing

Post by **kman** » Fri Jun 16, 2006 7:46 am

dermeister has it right - that's an electric heater meant to be used in military vehicles. I'm not 100% sure about the 24 volt part but that sounds similar to what I've read in other ebay auctions.

Lifesaver · Post by **Lifesaver** » Fri Jun 16, 2006 9:43 am

I've seen these before, both in eBay auctions and here on base. They work with the 24 volt systems. I'm trying to figure out of there is a way they could be converted to 12 volt.

Lifesaver

Garron · Post by **Garron** » Sat Jun 17, 2006 4:47 am

its been about 3 years since i did electronics in school, but if you connected 2 12 volts (no exactly what your thinking about) and managed to connect the socket from the original system onto the batteries that might work (excuse the crude diagram hope its get my point across)

DangerousDave · Post by **DangerousDave** » Sat Jun 17, 2006 3:10 pm

I heard rumours that there is some kind of convection mre heater/oven that was placed in Bradley Fighting Vehicles and other 24v tracked vehicles back in the early '90's, but I never actually saw or read about one.