| If you are going to install a heater, you obviously | | | | micathermic and, while all of them are 100% |
| need to obtain the best one for the job. | | | | efficient, some are more efficient at converting |
| Generally, a heater's effectiveness tends to be | | | | electricity into radiant heat - the kind of heat that |
| reduced in an open plan home or where a room is | | | | warms you up. Fan heaters, however, tend to |
| open with access to a stairway. Other reasons | | | | provide heat from fire to you, as quickly as |
| for a heater not working to its optimum | | | | possible as the heat is blown out into the room |
| efficiency would be large window recesses and | | | | and away from the source of the heat. Despite |
| other sources of drafts or insulation that is not | | | | the efficacy of the fan, users of space saving |
| adequate in terms of thickness and area it is | | | | heaters often complain about the noise being |
| intended for. However, if all these things are | | | | generated from the motor as the fan rotates |
| accounted for and the heater is working | | | | and, while some fans are quieter than others, it is |
| efficiently, you can expect a 1500 watt heater to | | | | impossible to provide such efficient heating at |
| provide sufficient heat for as much as 144 square | | | | minimum cost without the fan - for which a noisy |
| feet: put another way, to heat every square | | | | motor is required! |
| foot, you need a heater to supply 10 watts. | | | | Space saving heaters generally tends to refer to |
| If you do need to increase the amount of | | | | portable electric heaters that are either |
| wattage for any reason, it is essential that you | | | | convection heaters or radiant heaters and which |
| use an additional circuit to prevent overload: in any | | | | provide a maximum of 1500 watts output of |
| household a single circuit is only designed to carry | | | | heat. Universal favorites tend to be the Lasko |
| 15 amps. If a heater is throwing out 150watts of | | | | 5141 and the DeLonghi oil-filled radiator, although |
| heat then it will be drawing 12.5amps. That means | | | | other favorites include the Soleus Air and the |
| there will not even be enough power left over to | | | | Optimus 5210 - the latter two running at either |
| power three 100 watt light bulbs! Since space | | | | 400 watts or 800 watts and, due to the absence |
| saving heaters account for up to 300 deaths a | | | | of a fan, able to run quietly with no interference |
| year and around 28,000 house fires in the US, | | | | from noise. If you are not thinking about trying to |
| according to the Consumer Products Safety | | | | heat a whole room but just feel the need for |
| Commission, while on the subject of safety, you | | | | quick heat for an immediate warm-up when you |
| do need to ensure your space saving heaters | | | | have just come in from the cold, you couldn't go |
| each conform to UL standard [i.e. Underwriter's | | | | far wrong with one of the electric radiant space |
| Laboratory]. Also make sure your heaters have a | | | | saving heaters that runs on 800 watts with no |
| tip-over safety feature and protection from | | | | fan. Apart from instance warmth - as long as you |
| overheating. | | | | practically sit on top of them - these heaters are |
| There are many different kinds of space saving | | | | super-silent due to the absence of a fan motor to |
| heater, including convection, halogen, radiant, | | | | shatter your peace. |