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URGENT advise on convector heater
I need to buy an electric heater, my need is to warm up fast a medium
size room adjacent to the kitchen, at any time when I come from work and central heating is off. I have found a convector heatere Longhi HCA 530 FTS which seems to offer the option of a fan for initial heating. Has any of you seen review or own this appliance, I'd like to know about noise and reliability in general. Many thank in advance. TG |
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I have no experience with that heater. The one I do have (and really like)
is a ceramic one. Little back box with a fan and air filter in the back. Really pumps out heat, and supposed to be more energy efficient than the filament types. -- Christopher A. Young Learn more about Jesus www.lds.org www.mormons.com "Tety Garf" wrote in message ... I need to buy an electric heater, my need is to warm up fast a medium size room adjacent to the kitchen, at any time when I come from work and central heating is off. I have found a convector heatere Longhi HCA 530 FTS which seems to offer the option of a fan for initial heating. Has any of you seen review or own this appliance, I'd like to know about noise and reliability in general. Many thank in advance. TG |
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I have tried one of them with a very poor result, perhaps what I had wasn't
the right Watt? Given the size of the room plus kitchen I think that I might have to go for an oil filled radiator with timer. However, I am very grateful for your answer. Many thanks, TG Stormin Mormon wrote: I have no experience with that heater. The one I do have (and really like) is a ceramic one. Little back box with a fan and air filter in the back. Really pumps out heat, and supposed to be more energy efficient than the filament types. -- Christopher A. Young Learn more about Jesus www.lds.org www.mormons.com "Tety Garf" wrote in message ... I need to buy an electric heater, my need is to warm up fast a medium size room adjacent to the kitchen, at any time when I come from work and central heating is off. I have found a convector heatere Longhi HCA 530 FTS which seems to offer the option of a fan for initial heating. Has any of you seen review or own this appliance, I'd like to know about noise and reliability in general. Many thank in advance. TG |
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Best of luck to you. Hope it keeps you nice and warm in the cold winter
months. The ceramic heater I have, has a dial which is smoothly continuous from 400 watts to 1500 watts. I've also seen ceramic with a two position switch 800 and 1500, if memory serves. -- Christopher A. Young Learn more about Jesus www.lds.org www.mormons.com "Tety Garf" wrote in message ... I have tried one of them with a very poor result, perhaps what I had wasn't the right Watt? Given the size of the room plus kitchen I think that I might have to go for an oil filled radiator with timer. However, I am very grateful for your answer. Many thanks, TG Stormin Mormon wrote: I have no experience with that heater. The one I do have (and really like) is a ceramic one. Little back box with a fan and air filter in the back. Really pumps out heat, and supposed to be more energy efficient than the filament types. -- Christopher A. Young Learn more about Jesus www.lds.org www.mormons.com "Tety Garf" wrote in message ... I need to buy an electric heater, my need is to warm up fast a medium size room adjacent to the kitchen, at any time when I come from work and central heating is off. I have found a convector heatere Longhi HCA 530 FTS which seems to offer the option of a fan for initial heating. Has any of you seen review or own this appliance, I'd like to know about noise and reliability in general. Many thank in advance. TG |
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On Thu, 27 Jan 2005 22:26:51 -0500, someone wrote:
I have no experience with that heater. The one I do have (and really like) is a ceramic one. Little back box with a fan and air filter in the back. Really pumps out heat, and supposed to be more energy efficient than the filament types. How is it "more efficient" - converting electricity to heat by use of resistance has essentially the same efficiency for all methods ("filament", "ceramic", "oil-filled", all use resistance). Blowers may help direct the heat, but so can reflectors for radiant 'filament' heaters. Oil-filled surrounds the filament with the oil to dampen binary on-off fluctuations but is no more or less efficient in a general sense. Each watt = (from memory so bracing for error) 3.41 btu, and the wattage is limited by the voltage and amperage of a single residential circuit. Typically they are no more than 1500 watts since 120V x 15A = 1800W and there is some allowance for a bit of margin plus some other small thing (lamp etc.) being on the circuit. Despite the hype, there is not a lot of diference in net effect among the types. Some may be more convenient than others, I like an oil-filled myself. Reply to NG only - this e.mail address goes to a kill file. |
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