7500 Watt 25,600 BTU Heater

[brianch]

http://www.amazon.com/dp/B000A6H1IS/?tag=atomicindus08-20

Been thinking about picking up this heater. Anyone here have experience with it? Seems to get pretty good reviews on Amazon.

 

[jkwilson]

Good heater, but it can be expensive depending on your electrical cost and how you want to use it. Electrical resitance heating tends to be the most expensive way to go.

If you want to maintain temperature with it in a cold climate, it will be expensive to operate.

If you want to warm a cold shop in a cold climate, it will be slow to warm a large area.

 

[sixball]

Definetly depends on the size of the area, insulation, and how warm you want to keep it. I have a larger one in my 24 X 32 with insulated side walls and an unisulated rafter type ceiling. I use a radiant torpedo to get it up to temp, usaullay let it go up to 80, then shut it off. I then set my t stat on the electic heater to 70 and it kicks on and off and and miantains the temp just fine. Thats just on weekends though, and I don't really notice anything different on my electric bill, maybe 10$? If my ceiling was insulated, the electric heater wouldn't kick on nearly as much.

Sixball

 

[theoldwizard1]

Good heater, but it can be expensive depending on your electrical cost and how you want to use it. Electrical resitance heating tends to be the most expensive way to go.

If you want to maintain temperature with it in a cold climate, it will be expensive to operate.

If you want to warm a cold shop in a cold climate, it will be slow to warm a large area.

Everything he said !

Electric heat is typically the most expensive to operate.

 

[Falcon67]

At our co-op 13.5/kWh price and if it cycled like my 5kW heater does (4 times per hour or so, total around 15 min) I'd be out $6.07 per day to run it. At 6 hrs run time, at full output I'd use $3.38 in propane. Retail has been $2/gallon to fill 7.5g (30 lb) tanks. Propane would have to hit 3.60/gallon to break even with electricity here.