| type="text/javascript"> | | | | crystal quartz, the heat inside, change the |
| Versus infrared heaters | | | | element even hotter. As the wire becomes |
| Most heaters work by heating the air directly. The | | | | hotter, it begins to emit a large amount of |
| central air ovens, steam radiators and many | | | | infrared light. |
| portable heaters or blow hot air into the room or | | | | Infrared light |
| to warm the air around them and let the | | | | Infrared light is light with too long a wavelength |
| convection currents circulate air around . Infrared | | | | for people to see. People and objects at room |
| heaters are different. Instead of heating the air, | | | | temperature, infrared light, infrared heating, but |
| they warm objects in the room directly. | | | | much more. When the infrared light strikes an |
| The heating element | | | | object, the object absorbs some of its energy. |
| Infrared Heaters Quartz are driven by an electric | | | | Like visible light, infrared will pass right through the |
| element - usually a tungsten wire - inside a tube | | | | air, but the warmth of the people, chairs and |
| made of clear quartz crystal. A powerful electric | | | | most other things with which they come into |
| current in the wire, heating it up. The pitfalls of | | | | contact. |