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Portable electric heaters are
excellent for heating single rooms that lack sufficient heating from a main
heating system. For example, I use a portable electric heater in areas of my
basement to take the chill out of the air during winter months. Portable
electric heaters are also quite safe, with features such as built in
turn-off timers, adjustable temperature settings, and rugged and stable
enclosures. They are also one of the few types of portable heating systems
that can be used in the home without needing to be vented to the outside.
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Portable electric heaters are
also very energy efficient compared to their predecessors of years past.
In many cases it makes more sense to only use a portable electric heater
if you need to heat only one or two rooms of a home versus turning on
the main heating system.
There are a variety of portable electric heaters to choose from. There
are convection electric space heaters, fan forced convection electric
heaters, radiant heaters, and oil filled heaters. |
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Each has their pros and cons.
All, however, are reasonably affordable and are quite energy efficient.
A convection portable electric heater is very quiet, however it is a little
slow to heat up a room. This said, once the room has reached the desired
temperature, a convection heater can maintain the temperature in the room
quite well. Convection portable electric heaters are warm to the touch.
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A fan forced convection
electrical heater, as the name suggests, includes a fan to pump out and
disperse the heat a little faster. The down side with these type of portable
electric heaters is that they are a little noisy, compared to the
traditional convection heater. Like the standard convection portable
electric heater, a fan forced convection heater is also warm to the touch.
Radiant heaters are designed to heat a room up fast by heating the objects
in the room, versus heating the air itself. Radiant electric space heaters
are ideal for heating surfaces directly in the line of view of the heater.
They are not very useful or efficient for general heating of a room. They
are also quite hot to the touch and therefore no hands or other objects
should be placed close to them.
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The most efficient type of portable electric heater is the oil-filled space
heater. Electricity is used to heat the oil that circulates through the
portable heater. Once the oil reaches a pre-determined temperature the oil
circulates through the space heater to maintain the room temperature. They
do heat quickly and are hot to the touch, so like a radiant space heater
they should be placed in an open area where they cannot come in direct
contact with people and objects.
So if you want to take the chill out of a room this winter that is hard to
keep warm with your main heating system, consider a portable electric
heater. They are relatively inexpensive to purchase, relatively efficient to
operate, and quite safe to use when operated properly.
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