It is never a good idea to purchase a second hand heater as you will not know what kind of condition it is in.
Ceramic fan heaters any good.
This is an electric heating variant that does not need any type of fuel to function.
I should think ceramic heaters are ok but if you put 1 kwh of electricity into such a heater you can t get any more heat energy than that out of it.
A convection ceramic heater on the other hand adds a fan into the mix.
For a newer heater to be 50 more efficient it would have to use about 67 of the energy to give the same heat which is difficult because the original heater is already 100 efficient so this new one would have to be 150 efficient.
I don t have a ceramic heater but i should think that like any other fan heaters their main use is to heat a room quickly.
Convection based ceramic heaters can have an integrated fan that assists the air circulating around the room.
Actual ceramic heater performance is not only about output power.
Ceramic materials are very good electrical insulators and have excellent thermal conductivity.
Ceramic heaters don t require any maintenance as the ceramic element is so durable.
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Space heaters are often a smart solution for freezing offices and cold areas in your home.
Ceramic heaters get their name from the construction of the heating element which is made of durable ceramic that conducts heat very well.
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Ceramic heaters also tend to cover a larger area compared to a radiant heater.
Though the heating capacity of a ceramic heater as well as any other heater is defined by the unit maximum output power you might have noticed that the same heater does not perform the same in different premises and spaces and sometimes even in the same room.
The dyson am05 fan heater is a heater and air cooler not an air conditioning unit and you can buy a decent heater that also cools and still have change to spare.
And because they can efficiently self regulate temperature ceramic heaters are considered to be a fairly safe choice.
But that doesn t mean that one ceramic heater is as good as the next.
A radiant ceramic heater works by using electricity to warm a ceramic plate which then radiates heat into the room.