Eden pure heaters?

OM-freekin-G

NOT THIS again!!!!

HERE IS THE simple truth on electric heaters.

BUY one locally at your hardware store. Or the thrift store. Or a garage sale.

ALL electric heat puts out the same heat per watt. There is no magic. There is no "loving handbuilt care" by "Amish whatever."

Electric heat, ALL electric heat, translates to a simple watts--to--BTU formula, and that is 3.414 BTU per watt, IE 3400 BTU per kilowatt

Because electric heat is resistive, this is a simple conversion of VOLTS X AMPS = WATTS, and then WATTS X 3.4, or KILOwatts X 3400 to get BTU

So a typical 12-1500 watt heater puts out between 4000 and 5000 BTU of heat.

You can dress an electric heater up in any clothes you want, but underneath all the TV BS it's still a resistive heater element


When you buy an Eden Pure, you are paying needless chrome plated commissions to people like Bob Vila

LOOK, heat comes down to COMPARING both energy costs and averaging out the cost of equipment in your area. If you contact your local utilities, the usually have comparisons available.

You find out your cost of electric power, and whether it has a peak demand in your area. Electric heat is essentially 100% efficient, so when you find the cost of power, you can translate this exactly into cost per BTU

Oil, nat. gas, and LP are a little different. For this you need the equipment EFFICIENCY, and you are going to have to figure the overall cost of the equipment, installation, and some maintenance. So called condensing, or "90+ %" furnaces do require more maintenance than 80% AFUE

So once you figure the cost of one of these, you need to add about another 20%, depending on the appliance, to figure this.

Depending on availability, installation costs, whether you can do the work, and of course cost of equipment, you may or may NOT be better off with electric heaters in say, 10 years from now.