The cold chills brought about by the cold season makes people want to stay at home and curl up under a set of warm blankets just to keep warm. For houses with built-in fireplaces, sitting in a warm and cosy fire can be quite relaxing and enjoyable. However, if your house, or more particularly your room, is not equipped with a fireplace then a heater is the only way to go besides blankets. Because of their low cost and maintenance, electric heaters are very much in demand during cold seasons and one of the most popular of electric heaters is the quartz infrared heater.
A quartz infrared heater is one of the most economical and efficient electric heaters to have. Although it has been for quite some time, in this current world economic slump the heater has been gaining attention as a cost saver. A quartz infrared heater is similar to a light bulb in that it has a filament as a heater inside a gas filled tube. The main difference is in the materials used. The filament of the quartz heater is typically a coiled tungsten wire inside a quartz tube that is resistant to heat. Inside the tube, to preserve the filament against gradual wear is filled with inert gas, such as halogen. In some cases, an alternative to tungsten is carbon and an alloy based on iron, chromium and aluminum (FeCrAl). The carbon filament heats up much faster, although more difficult to fabricate.
The bulb itself costs only around 5 to 15 dollars and could last up to seven thousand hours or almost 3 years of regular use. The high efficiency of the infrared heater translates to a power consumption of only about a dollar of electricity a day.
Infrared heaters use the healthy electromagnetic waves to make the objects in your room or area to generate heat. The infrared wave is similar to the ones emitted by the sun and is generally regarded as beneficial to living things. Rather than the slow process of spreading the warm air from a heat generating filament of the heater out into the room, the infrared beams cause the room objects, including walls, to rapidly increase the ambient temperature in a relatively short time.
There are several different types of quartz infrared heater available on the market which allows for a variety of choices depending on the nature of the room you need to heat and how.
One of the most common types of a quartz heater is the ceiling or wall mounted type. These heaters can be placed on walls or ceiling where their infrared beams could strike the most objects on the area or in the room. These can come in a variety of shapes and sizes, depending on your needs.
Other infrared heaters come in free standing type, either mounted on poles or encased in a cabinet or box type of containers for portability. These have the advantage of being able to move to almost any location to strike the most objects as well as placing them in more convenient places. Some of the pole mounted quartz infrared heater comes equipped with a remote control for more accessible operation. For a more stylish indoor look, box type or cabinet type of infrared heater is available. These stand alone heaters can be placed anywhere inside the house and are styled to blend like any other appliances. Some of these heaters even do double duty as air purifiers or de-humidifiers.
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