Choosing a convective infrared heater

Very often, with the onset of frost in the apartments, it also becomes pretty cool: the batteries are not burning at all, the central heating system does not cope. Even more acute problem of heating the room is in private homes. To the aid, as a rule, comes additional heating equipment from fan heaters before electric convectors, and the latter type of heater is gaining increasing popularity. The convective-infrared heater probably deserves special attention for its technical characteristics and quality of work.

History reference

Additional heating systems are often needed by residents of both city apartments and country houses.A few years ago, the most preferred for use in everyday life were ordinary fan heaters and appliances made by the hands of skilled owners. In some apartments to this day old bulky heaters, which were once called "goats", are dusting.

In the early 90s, the first electric convectors began to be actively introduced. They were produced exclusively abroad, and cost a lot of money. Such convectors are usually hung on the wall. Due to convenience, ease of operation and energy saving, heaters have become widely used in Russia. Recently, the choice of buyers is increasingly falling on the latest invention - convective infrared and infrared heaters. They are even more economical, do not take up much space in the room and have a simple design.

Overview of Varieties

At home, most often used the following types of heaters:

1. Fan heaters. Usually placed on the floor. Quite compact and comfortable. In fact, they work on the principle of an ordinary fan, with the difference that there is a heating element in fan heaters.The air circulating in the rooms is blown through and heated through it. As a rule, fan heaters work in small areas, and their main advantage is the rapid achievement of high temperature. These devices are able to maintain heat constantly, unlike oil radiators.
2. Oil heater. The main coolant is mineral oil. They have different power, device and dimensions. Heat up in about half an hour, but require periodic shutdown for safety. There are two types of oil radiators - panel (capacity for loading oil in the form of a panel) and sectional.
3. Heat guns - household and industrial appliances designed to heat a large space, for example, a workroom or a garage. Quite expensive for the price, but highly effective. There are electric, water, gas, infrared and diesel heat guns. Typically, these thermal installations are presented in a rectangular case of durable metal and in appearance really resemble a gun.
4. Thermal curtain - equipment that is installed above the doorways.Its main function is to maintain a comfortable indoor climate due to air circulation.
5. Electric convector.
6. Infrared heater.

Electric convectors

Mechanism of their action similar to the principle of operation of a conventional central heating battery. In fact, you get another battery, but more convenient and adjustable. They heat the room with already heated air.

There are gas convectors, but electric convection appliances are safer and easier to use.

They are powered from the outlet, therefore, they can not be used in open spaces (yes it is not safe). Unfortunately, when both types of convectors work, there is a strong oxygen combustion in the air. Therefore, to keep the device of a convector type on for a long time will not work, especially since the power consumption during their operation is quite high.

Infrared heaters

Infrared heaters, as the name implies, use infrared radiation as a heating element. But unlike the convectors, it is not the air that heats up first, but the surfaces and objects in the rooms, which then give heat to the entire surrounding space (for more details, see the article principle of operation of the heater with infrared radiation). On a global scale, this is how the heat of the sun is distributed when the rays penetrate the atmosphere.

Temperature increases when exposed to infrared rays occurs in minutes. At first, only a small part of the room heats up (depending on where the convector beams are directed), then the heating will spread gently over the whole area. This contributes to the circulation of warm and cold air masses in the room.

Compared with convectors, heat loss during operation of the infrared heater is minimal - after all, only a certain area of ​​the room is heated, and heat is not consumed in unnecessary space. Consequently, you can save significantly more electricity.

Convective infrared

Perhaps the most optimal solution is the novelty of recent years - convective-infrared devices that intelligently combine the properties of both electric convectors and IR heaters in a single package. In this case, heat is generated. heating elementlocated in the inner part, and is given to the environment through the outer side of the case.

The most popular infrared heater, working convectively, mainly produces the Swedish brand. ELECTROLUX. The unit is equipped with two types of heating elements: a Y-DUOS converter and a panel with infrared radiation.

One of the latest developments of the company is a convector and at the same time an infrared heater called Air heat2. It takes less time to heat the room than its predecessors, thanks to the aerodynamic body and the high velocity of the flow of air through the heating element inside. The range of the device has also become significantly wider - 20% higher than that of previous models.

Pros and cons of a convective infrared heater

Before you decide on the choice of this type of devices, it is better to weigh the pros and cons.

Nevertheless, the advantages of this equipment are many:

1. These heaters are long and multifunctional.
2. Significant energy savings with a minimum of heat loss.
3. Security.
4. Convenient design.
5. Fast heating a large area.

Minuses:

• "Eats" oxygen.
• High price. The average cost is 5-6 thousand rubles.

Choose a suitable appliance can be based on your own preferences, a reasonable amount and the area that you are going to heat.In any case, remember that cheap heaters are short-lived and can work poorly, which means that their use probably will not bring the desired result.