so howmuch dose this cost .
Terrie
- Original Message -
From: Ken Hawk [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: blindhandyman@yahoogroups.com
Sent: Saturday, October 14, 2006 8:24 AM
Subject: Re: [BlindHandyMan] Quartz Infrared Heaters
Ray, do you know where you can purchase these units?
Ken Hawk
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These are good points, Dale. When I decided to buy one of these I compared
the cost of running 1500 watts to warm about 1000 square feet of our house
compared to buying propane for our furnace. My calculations were pretty
rough but I figured the Sun Twin would pay for itself in one heatin
Well here is the thing in my humble opinion and it really is humble.
A thousand square feet is a modest little house size. I quite simply don't
believe it could be heated with 1500 watts. That is only a little more
energy than your toaster or electric kettle or iron or hair drier uses.
There
Ralph, if this is the same unit I just bought, it uses four bulbs to
generate heat. Also, when you get it, you're going to have to take the
thing apart to install the bulbs which are in a coregated box inside the
unit. You can probably figure it out, but if not, let me know since I
just did the
There is no doubt at all that it will produce heat and quite possibly even a
little better than other 1500 watt heaters but even according to these
figures it is likely to be inadequate.
Well insulated they recommend 32000 BTU per thousand square feet. At 3.413
BTU per Watt it would require
Dale, the three-seasons room where we're using the heater I just paid
big bucks for is about 125 cubic feet. It's not well insolated at all,
so heating it enough to be usable is challenging in winter.
This is strictly from memory, so I'm invoking the principle of strict
non-attribution.
OOPSE! It's 125 square feet, not cubic feet.
Time to self-medicate again I guess.
-Original Message-
From: blindhandyman@yahoogroups.com
[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of William Stephan
Sent: Sunday, October 15, 2006 2:52 PM
To: blindhandyman@yahoogroups.com
Subject: RE:
Dale, there are interesting cmplications to all of this too.
First, propane turns into a liquid at -40, so the tanks themselves have
to be heated. Then, because of the tanks breathing, if the surface area
is too small, as the level drops, ice forms on the outside of the tanks
and the gas quits
