Doesn't it depend on the cost of electricity? What do you pay? 6 cents a kilowatt? A one and a half kw electric heater which is about as big as you can have on a standard 15 amp 110 volt circuit running half cycle then will cost you a little over a dollar a day. Half cycle is probably optymistic unless the room is really small and never too cold but that is over 30 dollars a month for one room. While that might be adequate for one smallish room it soon gets pretty expensive for a house or even a couple or three rooms.
Most of the country finds electric heat the most expensive to operate which is why it is rarely the first choice for centrally heating a home. Electric heating is the cheapest to instal disregarding esthetically fancy devices and for individual room climate control it is pretty hard to fault but I know of no environment where it is considered cheap to run. I suppose in places like Florida where the heating season might be measured in days it could be an ideal balance of relatively high operating cost against negligable installation cost and of course the equipment is small thus space economic too. Regardless of the claims there is a fixed amount of energy in a killowatt of electricity and that is all the heat you can get out of it. Dale Leavens, Cochrane Ontario Canada [EMAIL PROTECTED] Skype DaleLeavens Come and meet Aurora, Nakita and Nanook at our polar bear habitat. ----- Original Message ----- From: William Stephan To: [email protected] Sent: Friday, November 16, 2007 5:59 PM Subject: RE: [BlindHandyMan] electric heaters Lenny, I think it would take a mighty long time to offset the cost of one of the quartz or infra red heaters. I think I paid like $40 for an oil-filled heater, and something over $400 for the infra red one we use now. The only reason I bought the infra red unit is that my wife uses a sort of three-seasons room to groom dogs in the morning, and that means running a heater overnight. I was just a bit concerned about the safety of running an oil-filled unit unattended, whereas the infra red one is incapable of starting a fire as far as I can tell. -----Original Message----- From: [email protected] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Lenny McHugh Sent: Friday, November 16, 2007 3:27 PM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: [BlindHandyMan] electric heaters Hi David, I have a small ceramic and a larger oil filled heater. I am not sure which is the more efficient. The oil filled takes a longer to heat up but radiates heat for a much longer time period. The unit that my friend has came from http://www.biotechr <http://www.biotechresearch.com/epure_heater.php?dc=ECEAW47> esearch.com/epure_heater.php?dc=ECEAW47 That unit is very efficient just wonder how long it would take to offset the cost of the ceramic or oil filled. ----- Original Message ----- From: "David Sexton" <[EMAIL PROTECTED] <mailto:david%40rustytelephone.net> e.net> To: <blindhandyman@ <mailto:blindhandyman%40yahoogroups.com> yahoogroups.com> Sent: Friday, November 16, 2007 4:05 PM Subject: Re: [BlindHandyMan] electric heaters is it cheaper to use an electric heater to heat a room or use the central air? I'm not usually in the rest of my house, but it seems like a space heater would cost more constantly running. ----- Original Message ----- From: Lenny McHugh To: Handyman-Blind Sent: Friday, November 16, 2007 2:01 PM Subject: [BlindHandyMan] electric heaters I just talked to a friend of mine who purchased a very unique electric heater. It is quartz and hot air. Since quartz radiant heat typically only heats the objects in front this heater was designed to do both. In front of the three quartz tubes are copper tubes. Since the quartz will heat the copper a small fan forces air through the copper heating the room. He purchased this unit last year for about $400. He just purchased a device from harbor freight that shows the kw of an appliance. You plug this thing in and then he plugged the heater into it. It shows actual usage. Using this he was able to calculate that it is costing him about $55 a month to heat his living, dining and kitchen. At night he turns the unit off and uses his oil heating system.At the current price of heating oil at nearly $3 he should recover his investment in a few weeks. 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