Infrared Home Heaters

[Down Deep]

I'm thinking about getting one of the infrared home heaters to supplement the heat in my basement. I see that some of the stores have them discounted about 25% from the prices being charged earlier in the season. I've been looking at Comfort Zone and Sun Heat. Anybody own one of these or other heaters? Comments or recommendations. Do they work as advertised? Thanks

[LindyRigga]

I've got an EdenPure and yeah, they work well. I had it heating my entire house from mid-october to mid-november with no problems. after that it was too cold obviously and I had to turn on the normal heat. It definitely won't be a problem to heat your basement unless its huge. nice and quiet and if on full blast they use about $2.60 per day of electricity.

[jltimm]

Looky here: http://www.fishingminnesota.com/forum/ubbthreads.php/topics/1592275/Infrared_Heaters#Post1592275

[DRH1175]

I second the EdenPure They are the cats Meow.

[boatfixer]

Bob breaks it down pretty darn good. There is no disputing the fact that a BTU is a BTU and it still requires a constant given amount of energy to produce it. They do look nice and are safer than a milk house heater, but c'mon, does anyone really believe in the energy fairy?

[hondarider550]

I purchased a Comfort Zone heater in January. We use it constantly in our living room area. What we did notice is the fact that we only used 1 tank of propane this year when we usually use at least 3 or more per winter. The heater works great when the outside temperature is 10 or 20 above but anything colder you will need to use normal heat sources along with your Comfort Zone. What did change is the noticible change in the electric bill.

Did we save anything in energy costs... My answer to that question is probably some due to the fact that we kept areas where we were not occupying as warm during times that we were not using those areas.

These heaters do throw off some nice heat and in your situation you should be able to heat your basement nicely.

[heating guy]

Make sure you have a co detector they are know to produce co because the don't have a vent, when i installed furnaces they where illegal to install in minnesota the way retailors get by that is because they have branches outside minnesota

[muchowja]

I'm curious to know how an electric heater produces CO?

[BobT]

It doesn't. At least not directly in the home. The process of generating the electricity in the first place is one of the major players in CO2 production in our atmosphere though. From what I've read, the CO2 emissions resulting from electric generating with regard to home heating is about double the amount released by other heating systems. Imagine if we didn't have hydro-electric, solar, wind, or nuclear power plants but used fossil fuel to generate all of our electricity.

[Archerysniper]

Bob isn't co2 carbon dioxide they carbonmonoxide or co is the killer.

[BobT]

Oh. I mistook the ? for the number 2. It's an age thing.

In either case, electric heaters release less CO than CO2. They don't burn fuel so there's no exhaust gases.

[billyboyd]

I've got an EdenPure and yeah, they work well. I had it heating my entire house from mid-october to mid-november with no problems. after that it was too cold obviously and I had to turn on the normal heat. It definitely won't be a problem to heat your basement unless its huge. nice and quiet and if on full blast they use about $2.60 per day of electricity.

Really then how come the one month last year I used mine my electricity bill was over $400

sold it on [YouNeedAuthorization] best decision ever..

[jltimm]

Yeah, the heaters are a rip off!

[Gissert]

I recently had a guy give me a pretty good sales pitch - in a bar of all places. He brought the heater (Eden Pure)in, set it up on the floor, and turned it on. No denying it, it was a nice heater, and the radiant heat felt very nice. Everyone in there thought it was a nice rig.

I was 80% convinced to buy one. I went home, looked up some electrical specs on the internet, and did some math.

I calculated that my electric bill would be a tad higher, but propane at the current price was still a bit cheaper than running the heater. At the time, the cost savings would be a wash. With the fluctuating price of propane, the heater could be a real cost saver at times, or it could be a drain on the pocket book.

For the 380 bucks I was quoted, I think it would be worth it to have it around, but I decided to go with a conversion to wood pellet/corn heat.

If you look there are lots of testimonials on the web regarding these heaters. Some good, some bad. Most of them left me more confused than when I started. It all depends on the individual application.

[Mudcutter]

heat is a measure of E (energy) and the most E they will let you draw out of 110V socket is 1500watts. I won't get into the math on here, but basically starting a nice fire in a eff woodstove overnight will produce nearly 10 times the heat anything you plug into the wall. Now getting the heat to various rooms is a challenge,,, but for $300,, I run my central fan, place fans in critcal areas and move heat from the woodstove far cheaper than placing a heater in each room.

The wood is free, and it warms you twice.