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| Thread ID: 108929 | 2010-04-17 07:53:00 | Eco heaters - anyone tried? | Nomad (952) | PC World Chat |
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| 877523 | 2010-04-18 05:41:00 | AVOID! (snip). I will keep the one on the modesty panel of my desk, because it is very effective against cold legs. However, I cannot imagine how they could heat a room. |
John H (8) | ||
| 877524 | 2010-04-18 05:49:00 | Yeah it would be ideal as leg warmer-upper under the desk, but pretty useless for spaces larger than that. | catspyjamas (15614) | ||
| 877525 | 2010-04-18 05:57:00 | They have been here for decades. They are usually called Nitestor heaters. I don't think he was talking about Nitestor heaters. I think the OP means these: www.econo-heat.co.nz That's what I was talking about anyway. |
pine-o-cleen (2955) | ||
| 877526 | 2010-04-18 06:03:00 | Yes, the ones in your link there are the exact ones I'm talking about too, pine-o-cleen. | catspyjamas (15614) | ||
| 877527 | 2010-04-18 06:14:00 | We had a nightstore heater in our hall, it kept the bedrooms at a reasonable temperature. Problem of course is that you have little control over output heat so that a warm afternoon can be a problem. It was removed when we put heatpumps in about 10 years ago. I still have the nightstore if you are interested (in Christchurch). | Brucem (8688) | ||
| 877528 | 2010-04-18 06:21:00 | I will keep the one on the modesty panel of my desk, because it is very effective against cold legs. However, I cannot imagine how they could heat a room. Doesn't it say it heats a room 'up to' 3 m by 4 m, that is a very small room. I don't believe they are any more efficient than an oil heater, and oil heater offer more heat and are cheaper. It is amazing that because they heavily advertise, that people buy them. A bit like those home ventilation systems. Nightstore heater I don't think are particually efficient either, the advatage of those is you can use them to use offpeak electricity, which may work out cheaper. The most efficient way to heat you house is a heat pump, or using the sun. |
robbyp (2751) | ||
| 877529 | 2010-04-18 06:40:00 | Doesn't it say it heats a room 'up to' 3 m by 4 m, that is a very small room. I don't believe they are any more efficient than an oil heater, and oil heater offer more heat and are cheaper. It is amazing that because they heavily advertise, that people buy them. A bit like those home ventilation systems. Nightstore heater I don't think are particually efficient either, the advatage of those is you can use them to use offpeak electricity, which may work out cheaper. The most efficient way to heat you house is a heat pump, or using the sun. Yeah it says 9m squared for the 260W one and 12m squared for the 400W one. When we had the HRV guy came over, one of the heaters he suggested was maybe these panel heaters too :D and he was adamant it would heat a lounge up that required a 6kW heat pump. I got my refund. I had it for maybe 3hrs on, it raised the temperture by 3 degrees, (I had a thermometer) or maybe not that cos my room get a bit of sun and my computer was on. 3 degrees was comparing my un-heated lounge. Re: the 400W panel heater. That prob uses similar power to a 2.4kW heat pump, COP is over 4x for one of the Pana's, a few were over 5x. If I left the 260W or 400W one on for 24/7 I would chew more power bills than a 2.4kW heat pump (!). |
Nomad (952) | ||
| 877530 | 2010-04-18 06:46:00 | Neighbour has one of them. She said it was great until I found out what her winter power bill was. Massive. If one has a day/night meter the night time rate is discounted, many nitestore heaters might be 2 or 3kW, per kW cost around 8c or 10c depending on your plan. So a 2kW = 20c an hour. 20c x 8hrs x 7days x4 weeks = $44.80, if you have 2 = $89.60 on top of your usuals which might be around $120-150 taking it to $230 a month :rolleyes: |
Nomad (952) | ||
| 877531 | 2010-04-18 06:58:00 | Yeah it says 9m squared for the 260W one and 12m squared for the 400W one . When we had the HRV guy came over, one of the heaters he suggested was maybe these panel heaters too :D and he was adamant it would heat a lounge up that required a 6kW heat pump . I got my refund . I had it for maybe 3hrs on, it raised the temperture by 3 degrees, (I had a thermometer) or maybe not that cos my room get a bit of sun and my computer was on . 3 degrees was comparing my un-heated lounge . Re: the 400W panel heater . That prob uses similar power to a 2 . 4kW heat pump, COP is over 4x for one of the Pana's, a few were over 5x . If I left the 260W or 400W one on for 24/7 I would chew more power bills than a 2 . 4kW heat pump (!) . Aren't ventiallation company, and that heater company related in some way . If so they would recommend it for obvious reasons . |
robbyp (2751) | ||
| 877532 | 2010-04-18 07:01:00 | I don't think he was talking about Nitestor heaters. I think the OP means these: www.econo-heat.co.nz That's what I was talking about anyway. Well, I don't recall what you were talking about - I was responding to martynz and others who were clearly talking about Nitestor heaters. You could hardly get a brick inside the econo-heat thing you have the url for! |
John H (8) | ||
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