[AT] Off Topic - EdenPure - Infrared Portable Heater

[charlie hill]

You're right about that Roy.   Go get a 500 Watt portable work light for 
$25, put it in a metal box with some holes, add a small fan and you've got 
the same thing with $300+ left over.

Charlie
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Roy Morgan" <k1lky at earthlink.net>
To: "Antique tractor email discussion group" <at at lists.antique-tractor.com>
Sent: Thursday, October 02, 2008 11:20 PM
Subject: Re: [AT] Off Topic - EdenPure - Infrared Portable Heater


>
> On Oct 2, 2008, at 4:05 PM, LeRoy Price III wrote:
>
>>
>> I was wondering if anyone on the list hs any experience with these
>> and if they have an opinion of them? Do they do what they say they
>> are suppose to do?
>
> They would most likely do most of what the claims are, but don't be
> duped:
>
> A thousand watts of heat are a thousand watts of heat. Whether it
> comes from a "sunny faced glow" thing (the glowing hot copper dish
> thing outlawed many decades ago) or ten hundred watt lamps, or wires
> in your floor, or one fancy four hundred dollar gadget.
>
> Fast starting is likely useless (how fast to you NEED to begin to warm
> a room?)
> Not able to start a fire it likely a great thing.
> Being very quiet might be good.  (Those radiator like things don't
> make noise either.)
> Not reducing humidity or oxygen is common to all such types of heat
> (*relative* humidity will go down if the air is warmed.  And the
> oxygen is used at the electric generating plant, not at your house.)
> Saves more money is likely a fallacy, if it uses the same amount of
> electricity.  (Maybe they mean that the oil you don't use costs more
> now than before.)
>
> Note: if you put an amount of heat into a room, it doesn't matter what
> form of heat the gadget uses to do  it: infrared, convection, radiated
> visible light, whatever.  The end result is pretty much the same.
>
> Roy
>
> Roy Morgan
> k1lky at earthlink.net
> 529 Cobb St.
> Groton NY, 13073
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