The TV spot said 5000 watts. Pehaps the ad writer sees no difference between watts and btu's.
You could never tap a 110vac outlet for 5000 watts of power without tripping the 15A or 20A breaker immediately. On the other hand, a 900 watt space heater will not do effective heating in any but the smallest rooms. Have you ever noticed that your coffee maker was heating up your kitchen? Neither have I. So, we either have false and erroneous advertizing, or some company slipped a cold fusion device into the market place under every ones radar. Jeff -----Original Message----- From: leaking pen [mailto:itsat...@gmail.com] Sent: Saturday, December 27, 2008 1:50 PM To: vortex-l@eskimo.com Subject: Re: [Vo]:Amish heater Looking up online, it uses 1500 watts, and claims 5119 btus. so, just about 100 percent efficiency in making heat, but most electric heaters are that efficient. On Sat, Dec 27, 2008 at 11:41 AM, Jed Rothwell <jedrothw...@gmail.com> wrote: > Jeff Fink <rev...@ptd.net> wrote: >> >> I have been seeing ads for a portable plug in electric fire place that >> uses as much electricity as a kitchen coffee maker but puts out 5000 watts >> of heat. Has anybody checked this out from an o.u. perspective? > > Coffee makers consume ~900 W. If this thing puts out 5,000 W at high > temperature it would be a cinch to make it into a perpetual motion machine. > > - Jed > >
