What is the best energy efficient electric heater?
All electric heaters are 100% energy efficient - at converting electrical energy into heat. People may have positive experiences with one or another type of heater - for example, some people will claim that an oil rad heater is more efficient - but this just isn't true. As for why heating with electric space heaters is so expensive, it's because electricity is expensive! After all, a coal-fired power plant is only about 35% efficient at converting heat to electricity, and another 7-9% of the electricity is lost in transmission to your house, so your 100% efficient heater is only getting about 32% of the original heat from the coal into your room. Different electric heater types can be more EFFECTIVE than others at a particular heating task. For example, if you spend a lot of time in your small room sitting on the couch, a radiative electric heater works well. These heaters send out infrared radiation (perfectly safe - it's what keeps french fries warm in the school cafeteria), which heats the objects it strikes, but not the air it passes through. So you set up the radiative heater to point to you on your couch; you and the couch will get warm, but the rest of the room will stay cool. So you'll use less energy. The main reason people spend a lot of money heating small rooms is that the rooms tend to be very poorly insulated or drafty. If you're in a rental there's not much you can do about insulation but you can seal for drafts and add window insulation by getting better curtains/shades: - Buy a plastic window insulation kit. With this kit, a pair of scissors and a blow-dryer, you can insulate and seal your windows and cut down a lot on heat loss. - Buy proper window coverings - curtains with an insulating layer, or draw-down shades. The key with window coverings is that you need to seal the airspace between the window covering and the window. If it's open at the top and bottom, the window coverings won't help. - Buy a tube of clear silicone and run a bead around the wood of window frames and baseboard/quarter-round on exterior walls. This will cut down on drafts from those places.
What are the most efficient electric heaters?
What is the greatest electric heater?They are all exactly the same, with regards to how much heat they put out for a given amount of electricity. That is; except one: The heat pump, which can put out up to 4 times the heat of a resistance heater for the same wattage input. It’s not magic, but just a fact. It takes heat that is in the air, even on very cool days, and raises it to a higher level, capable of heating your home. This I would call “the greatest” electric heater.
What is the most efficient style of electric heater?
What is the most efficient style of electric heater?All electric heaters have the same efficiency: 100%. Your choices relate to the styles of heater that are available. Nearly all of them are rated 1500–1600 watts. They only differ by looks, features and cost. For what it’s worth, I have quite a few, brand name, Pelonis. I got them at WM when they were on sale for about $10. They are superior to any others that I have had, specifically for their quality of workmanship and how they handle their ‘tip over’ function. Instead of a switch on the bottom that sometime doesn’t work in carpet, they have an internal tilt switch. They are great little heaters.
Are infrared heaters energy efficient?
It depends on the situation. The key detail to note is the difference between efficiency and effectiveness.Infrared heaters are about 85% efficient at emitting radiant heat, while the rest of the heat is conducted through the frame. If the heat conducted through the frame contributes to whatever you are trying to heat then the infrared heater can be considered as 100% efficient at converting electricity into usable heat. If 100% sounds high consider this: The use of a heat pump for heating can have a coefficient of performance of 2-4. COP is not the same as efficiency because the heat pump moves heat rather than generating it, but the result of its use is that it is up to 4 times more efficient at using the energy than that infrared heater. There's also's effectiveness to consider. I once surveyed a railroad car machine shop building that operated year round. In the winter they would periodically open gigantic doors to switch the cars out and bring in a fresh 40 ton ice cube (rail car) to work on it. In this situation using infrared heaters is highly effective because it heats objects directly. Using traditional convection heaters to heat the air would be a bad choice here because all the hot air would escape every time they switched cars. That said, radiant heaters are directional so it feels like trying to warm up by a bonfire on a cold night. One side of your body gets warm and the other freezes. The last thing to consider is what is effective vs what is cheap. Natural gas is so cheap that it often makes sense to use a forced air convection heater (~80% efficient) instead of an electric powered infrared heater.
Is a 900W-1500W fan heater more energy efficient than a regular electric baseboard heater?
In terms of the efficiency of converting electical power to heat there would be little difference. However, how the heat is distributed and what benefit you feel from it will be very different. The baseboard heater is (I presume) fixed in place. The heat will have to slowly fill the room by convection. The fan heater will spread heat more quickly (and more quickly still because it is a higher rating). You will also be able to move or angle it so that the heat reaches the places you need it more quickly. But if left on for the same length of time (without a thermostat) the higher-rated heater will use more electricity overall. (I'm from the UK, and quite alarmed by J.'s info on NA wiring codes allowing cables to be just pushed in. We have twice the voltage and half the current here in Europe, but would never dream of not screwing the cables in tightly! Yikes!)
Are space heaters energy efficient?
I live in a house with 5 guys on my hockey team and we all left for winter break except one guy. While we were gone, he turned up the heat and used all the oil. When we returned, it was freezing. While we were waiting for oil to be delivered. This housemate used an electric space heater to keep his room warm for 3-4 days. Our electric bill came in recently and it was over $100 more than usually. He claims it was a computer switchboard on the oil burner that was over worked. He also claims that his space heater was energy efficient so that couldn't have been the cause. Again, this was over a time period when we weren't in the house for half the billing period. What do you think was the probable cause?
What is the most energy efficient electric kettle?
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What is the best efficient portable heater for a small room (10x12')?
Those little electric heaters work very well. Homedics, Nortex..any brand really and they cost about $15-$20 dollars. If they ever over heat it will actually shut down on it's own.
What is more energy efficient: space heater or a window A/C unit?
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