Hi guys,
Is Solar comfort space heater good enough to justify $400? Alternative is an oil filled radiant heater ( $70)
Thx
Is Solar comfort space heater good enough to justify $400? Alternative is an oil filled radiant heater ( $70)
Thx
EatenByLimestone said:Electric resistance is electric resistance. For a given input you will only get so much output. For a standard 1500 amps IIRC, you will get 5100 BTU/hr no matter what you cover the heater in.
Matt
PyMS said:Although some of the more ornamental lamps might actually be quite expensive and not very efficient in terms of lighting a room, one rarely hears anyone call that a waste of money. So why be so hard on someone spending extra money on a nice looking Amish mantle or whatever else the more ornamental heaters might be called?
WhitePine said:PyMS said:Although some of the more ornamental lamps might actually be quite expensive and not very efficient in terms of lighting a room, one rarely hears anyone call that a waste of money. So why be so hard on someone spending extra money on a nice looking Amish mantle or whatever else the more ornamental heaters might be called?
Nice looking? Ornamental? OK, that's a taste thing.
Here's the problem with these very expensive, heavily marketed "fireplaces." They are sold as a way to lower the buyer's heating costs. The aesthetics bit is part of the deliberate misdirection built into the sales pitch. Full page ads full of flowery prose and wonderment conceal a simple fact from the public. The "secret" to lowering your heating costs, buried artfully in the reams of verbiage, is everyone crowding around said fireplace in whatever room it's placed, while the thermostat is turned down in the rest of the house. You can do the same thing with a $29, or less, heater from Wally World.
The target market is composed of people struggling with heating bills, a lot of whom live paycheck to paycheck, who are looking for a way to save money. These people are suckered into paying a small fortune for something with no more functional value than a portable heater that costs 15 to 20 times less than the magic fireplace.
These products are sold by marketeers who have no conscience.
WhitePine said:PyMS said:Although some of the more ornamental lamps might actually be quite expensive and not very efficient in terms of lighting a room, one rarely hears anyone call that a waste of money. So why be so hard on someone spending extra money on a nice looking Amish mantle or whatever else the more ornamental heaters might be called?
Nice looking? Ornamental? OK, that's a taste thing.
Here's the problem with these very expensive, heavily marketed "fireplaces." They are sold as a way to lower the buyer's heating costs. The aesthetics bit is part of the deliberate misdirection built into the sales pitch. Full page ads full of flowery prose and wonderment conceal a simple fact from the public. The "secret" to lowering your heating costs, buried artfully in the reams of verbiage, is everyone crowding around said fireplace in whatever room it's placed, while the thermostat is turned down in the rest of the house. You can do the same thing with a $29, or less, heater from Wally World.
The target market is composed of people struggling with heating bills, a lot of whom live paycheck to paycheck, who are looking for a way to save money. These people are suckered into paying a small fortune for something with no more functional value than a portable heater that costs 15 to 20 times less than the magic fireplace.
These products are sold by marketeers who have no conscience.
Semipro said:WhitePine said:Nice looking? Ornamental? OK, that's a taste thing.
Here's the problem with these very expensive, heavily marketed "fireplaces." They are sold as a way to lower the buyer's heating costs. The aesthetics bit is part of the deliberate misdirection built into the sales pitch. Full page ads full of flowery prose and wonderment conceal a simple fact from the public. The "secret" to lowering your heating costs, buried artfully in the reams of verbiage, is everyone crowding around said fireplace in whatever room it's placed, while the thermostat is turned down in the rest of the house. You can do the same thing with a $29, or less, heater from Wally World.
The target market is composed of people struggling with heating bills, a lot of whom live paycheck to paycheck, who are looking for a way to save money. These people are suckered into paying a small fortune for something with no more functional value than a portable heater that costs 15 to 20 times less than the magic fireplace.
These products are sold by marketeers who have no conscience.
+1. Very deceptive advertising which is obviously targeted at some that can least afford it. In most cases its a rather cheap Chinese-build quartz heater inside a wooden housing purportedly built by the Amish or some such. Even worse than those that advertise "high efficiency" electric baseboard heaters.
PyMS said:Semipro said:WhitePine said:Nice looking? Ornamental? OK, that's a taste thing.
Here's the problem with these very expensive, heavily marketed "fireplaces." They are sold as a way to lower the buyer's heating costs. The aesthetics bit is part of the deliberate misdirection built into the sales pitch. Full page ads full of flowery prose and wonderment conceal a simple fact from the public. The "secret" to lowering your heating costs, buried artfully in the reams of verbiage, is everyone crowding around said fireplace in whatever room it's placed, while the thermostat is turned down in the rest of the house. You can do the same thing with a $29, or less, heater from Wally World.
The target market is composed of people struggling with heating bills, a lot of whom live paycheck to paycheck, who are looking for a way to save money. These people are suckered into paying a small fortune for something with no more functional value than a portable heater that costs 15 to 20 times less than the magic fireplace.
These products are sold by marketeers who have no conscience.
+1. Very deceptive advertising which is obviously targeted at some that can least afford it. In most cases its a rather cheap Chinese-build quartz heater inside a wooden housing purportedly built by the Amish or some such. Even worse than those that advertise "high efficiency" electric baseboard heaters.
I share your sentiments about deceptive advertising.
However, do you want me to believe that Underwriter's Laboratories would approve "a quartz heater inside a wooden housing" for sale on the US market? What if the fan stops? Also, I believe that quartz heaters are quite a bit more expensive than simple resistive wire heaters; a fact that is probably not lost on the Chinese manufacturers.
Electric baseboard heaters, however, especially those without any type of fan and supposed to be mounted under large window are indeed one of the more ridiculous heating contraptions. Just go outside and feel the window get a little bit hotter when the baseboard heater is switched on. I am a big believer in heat exchangers, but not in running them backwards so as to try and heat Planet Earth.....
Henk