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Posted by dpb on November 12, 2007, 5:16 pm
mytypes14@gmail.com wrote:
> On Nov 11, 12:02 pm, twinmount...@webtv.net (---MIKE---) wrote:
>> Last year I ordered one. It didn't keep my 660 square foot great room
>> warm so I returned it (there was a free trial period). I took a little
>> doing to get my money refunded but eventually I got it credited to my
>> credit card. I now use a $50 Holmes quartz radiant heater placed about
>> four feet in front of me for cold days when the furnace is off.
>>
>> ---MIKE--->>In the White Mountains of New Hampshire
>>
>> >> (44° 15' N - Elevation 1580')
> A biased opinion:
>
> You get what you pay for Just Like a Printer and it's cartridges. You
> buy a cheap printer, and pay a ton for Ink. So in this case the
> Quartz Infrared Heaters that are similar to EdenPure or ComfortZone
> save you money on Electric Bills or your Gas or Oil Heat which is very
> expensive these days. For example we save $100month for 5 winter
> months, we actually pay for the unit. So that is why these Units are
> expensive. They don't heat the Air, they heat object, that is why
> they save energy. Whenever new technology is introduced it is usually
> expensive, and there are a lot of skeptics.
They are no different than any other _radiant_ heater, despite the high
price and hoopla.
Whether they can save anybody any money by allowing the central heating
to be used less is an individual usage thing that depends on a whole lot
of issues, most which have to do with reducing the amount of actual
space heating used, not the the actual alternate heating source.
_IF_ (the proverbial "big if") you can do that (reduce room heating on a
room basis or cut thermostat back significantly if not) and you're able
to be in a room in direct line-of-sight sufficiently enough of the time,
it just may be possible. If otoh, the heater is in the room but you're
in a location that you're hidden (say behind a kitchen counter), then
other stuff may be getting toasty, but you may well be quite chilly
yourself.
In short, they high-priced spreads are a scam, short and simple as
compared to other similarly rated units.
The ad BS is simply that...
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