What Is The Most Efficient Space Heater?
This is actually a fairly difficult question to answer properly because of the many variables that would make efficiency different depending on the conditions.
How much space is the space heater going to heat?
One heater might be efficient for 500 square feet, but it’s going to be way too much in a smaller room where a smaller space heater would save you much more money to run it.
Does it need to heat a part of the room or the whole room?
Some space heaters are convectional meaning that they will heat up a whole room. Other space heaters like the radiant kind will only heat up the objects or people in the path of the light from the heater. If in a large room and only wanting to heat you in your recliner, a radiant heater will be much more efficient.
Energy saving features
As a whole, generally electric space heaters will work the best, but you have to make sure there are some features on them.
A thermostat will make your space heater work much more efficiently. The more expensive versions will be able to set a certain temperature. Lower quality space heaters should at least have a high, medium, and low setting on them.
Timers will help your heater be more efficient. Being able to set the heater to turn off after 2 hours will make you use less energy.
Match the heater for your needs in your room. Also be sure to look at the wattage that each heater uses as this will be a big indication of how much power it’s going to draw.
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