| If there are unheated areas in your house that | | | | easy portability due to wheels attached to them |
| are not used to live in, you should consider | | | | which provide easy mobility. Also its compact size |
| installing a special-purpose storage heater. These | | | | and structure due to a compact propane tank |
| small devices are usually indoor propane heaters, | | | | attached makes it easy to handle. On exhaustion |
| that is based on natural gas as a fuel. | | | | such compact tanks can be refilled and used again. |
| Storage heaters are devices which are used to | | | | These heaters heat up only a specific region of |
| store electricity at non peak load periods of the | | | | your house or any other indoor place without |
| day i.e. when base load electricity is available at | | | | requiring the load to heat up the entire place. The |
| low price and can be released during the day or | | | | place it heats up is generally a non-insulated |
| when the peak load demand is present and tariff | | | | portion of your home. |
| rates are high. Heat is usually stored in clay bricks | | | | However in case of indoor propane heaters |
| or other ceramic material because of its low cost | | | | certain amount of precautions needs to be taken |
| and high specific heat capacity. | | | | for efficient working. The regulators, hoses and |
| Such heaters are generally indoor propane heaters | | | | nozzles must be compatible with them. There |
| which are small heating instruments that use | | | | should not be any open flames within the |
| pressurized gasses for heating. Also since propane | | | | surroundings of the tank and also the heater can |
| is a clean fuel releasing minimal amount of gases it | | | | be cleaned once in while with a soap and warm |
| forms an ideal storage heater for indoor purposes. | | | | water. |
| However a good ventilation system is still very | | | | Also if too much of heat is stored inside the |
| important when you are using them. These | | | | heaters then it may have a tendency of gradually |
| heaters can also be mounted on a wall and used | | | | losing it and thus wastage of heat and cost |
| safely. | | | | incurred in storing it. Also if insufficient quantity of |
| The basic control system of storage heaters | | | | heat is stored then it may not be sufficient for |
| involves two controls-one for recording the | | | | long winter periods and thus external electricity will |
| amount of electricity stored during the peak | | | | have to taken at peak load periods into account |
| periods and other to record the amount of heat | | | | and thus raising the overall cost to heat up the |
| given away. These two controls can be adjusted | | | | room. Hence an optimum quantity of heat needs |
| by the user and hence provide flexibility to these | | | | to be stored which will make them cost friendly |
| heaters. | | | | storage heaters. |
| Apart from it, indoor propane heaters also have | | | | |