Infrared heating panel is no good

sickofusernamez

1. For a 900 Watt infrared heater to heat a 36m2 room you would need your house to be built to passive house standards and the room in question located away from the gable ends. Otherwise, that company is dreaming.

2. If your room is 4m x 3.5m, with a standard ceiling height and is insulated, then a good quality 900 watt infrared heater is more than enough to heat your room. Typically, you should be good for 20m2 with that size heater but other factors need to be taken into account. If it's a s*** quality heater, then forget about it.

3. These types of infrared heaters are designed to be fitted either on the wall or ceiling. Best practice is on the ceiling in the centre of the room. If not, then it needs to be half way up a wall so that the heat is unobstructed by furniture etc. If it's hung on a wall then the performance drops a bit as opposed to being on the ceiling.

4. It's pointless coming into a cold room and turning on the heater then waiting for the room to warm up. That's a poor way to use infrared heaters. When first using them, they should be turned on until the room is very warm. After that they should be controlled using a thermostat and timer set up, then left alone to cycle on/off. If they're ever turned off for days at a time and the cold sets in, then this needs to be repeated.


5. Infrared heaters need to be sized correctly for each and every room. Then installed and used according to manufacturers instructions otherwise you're going to be let down either by undersizing or oversizing.

6. It's possible that the heating element is faulty. This can be checked with an infrared thermometer or similar to the face of the panel. Temperature should be somewhere around 90 degrees give or take.

mjsingh wrote: »

Thank you.

Maybe but I am reading the website. It is stating that FAR infrared heating panels make heat for a 36 meter square room. My room is smaller.

The website is stating in writing far less power cost than electric heaters. I tested the FAR infrared heating panel. It is taking 900 watts and it is not warm 1-2 meters of the heating panel. The regular heater now is taking maximum 750 watts and it is making all of the room warm.

The company is not providing a refund. Maybe to be close to the FAR infrared heating panel is ok but this is not possible. The company say I must have more panels but the website is stating one infrared heating panel makes heat for 36 meter square room.

1-2 meters close is ok but the room is cold. This is no good.

Cardew

sickofusernamez wrote: »

That's misleading

This is true if both heaters had the same power consumption but if that was the case then you have oversized your infrared heater by a mile. For example, I would never use a 2.5kw infrared heater to heat the same size room as a 2.5kw electric convector heater for fear of frying. :eek: I could heat a 500 + sq.ft room with that size infrared heater.

If infrared heaters are providing "some savings", then something is seriously wrong. If we're talking about electric convector heaters, there sThere should be a drop of anywhere from 40% to 70% in power consumption with infrared heating.

Typically, you should be good for 20m2 with that size heater but other factors need to be taken into account. If it's a s*** quality heater, then forget about it.

It is your last two posts that are misleading.

You are implying, indeed stating, that an IR heater produces more heat for a given consumption than other forms of electrical heating, and quite simply it doesn't.

A 2.5kW or 900w IR heater produces EXACTLY the same amount of heat as any other form of electrical heater of a similar rating.

'If it's a s*** quality IR heater, then forget about it'

A poor quality IR heater(of which there are many on the market) will produce EXACTLY the same amount of heat - for the same consumption - as the finest quality IR heater on the market. It just might not last as long.

kippaxkid

too many people on here are confusing the recognised measurements for a room
A room is not measured two dimensionally, and is shown correctly on the website as m^3 and not m^2
height times width times length
so 36 m3 for ease of reckoning is 4*3*3 and not 9*4.

matelodave

AS the thread is over 18 months old, I'm sure no one really cares anymore

DawnCrush

matelodave wrote: »

AS the thread is over 18 months old, I'm sure no one really cares anymore

kippaxkid obviously does.

They have taken the time and trouble to come back to MSE after over 8 years to make their second post using this particular user account. :cool:

mumf

We are predominantly solid fuel space heating,but when we don't want to light a stove we use wall mounted electric radiators,and they work well.They look good too. We aso have a couple of infra red panels too.One is in a small back bedroom,mounted high up by the way! It is a German job that I paid about 120 quid if I remember. It works really well in there.

There is also one next to my armchair,wall mounted,high enough to heat ME when I sit there.I usually put this on early morning when I am having a brew before work.It is instant and saves heating all that air.We also dont like an overheated space.

The thing is with IR panels,it ain't central heating! It has an application to a particular heating situation. They work well when in the right place.