Tools.Woot.com has
Heat Storm 6000W Smart Garage Heater (HS-6000-GC) for
$151.99.
Shipping is free w/ Amazon Prime, otherwise shipping is $6 flat-rate.
Thanks to community member
gunner249 for finding this deal.
Features:
- Instant Heat: 3000 to 6000 watts of quiet and comfortable heat. It warms your room with adjustable 10,000 - 20,000 BTU Output.
- Ceiling or Wall Mounted: Hardwired installation required. Ideal for garages, workshops, office spaces, etc.
- WiFi Enabled: Connect this heater to your wifi and then control this heater from your phone anywhere!
- Built-in Thermostat: Set your heater to the perfect temperature and it will automatically turn on and off to keep it that way.
- Set Schedules: This is perfect for the home office, garage, or workshop. You can set a schedule for heat to turn on before you even get there! You can also repeat the schedule for specific days. Wiring not included, Electrician install recommended
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Running the same BTU output (20,400) on natural gas would cost $0.21 per hour.
Something to factor in if this is a long term play on your part. 7x more operating cost over nat gas.
Edit: the website says it's a 240V model, so you'd need to run a 240V circuit for this.
"The Heat Storm 6000-watt Wifi Unit is a great solution for any garage, workshop, basement or area where there is not much floor space. It mounts on the wall or on the ceiling and At 6000 Watts this heater will easily heat up your garage, basement or shop up to 1000 square feet. It does need to be hardwired in so you may need to hire a certified electrician to get it installed. "
Probably the same reason baseboard heaters can't use plugs? Of course you can do whatever you want at your own risk and I'm sure lots of people do.
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Sure, there are much cheaper options fuel-wise - a pellet burning stove, a propane heater - but they have other disadvantages that don't make them suitable for use. Most might not want to bother with a vent for a stove or gas heater, and a heat pump would require significant use to warrant the cost. That's why there's a big market for heaters like these, specifically for use in utility buildings (sheds, workshops, garages) that don't have full time heating.
Running the same BTU output (20,400) on natural gas would cost $0.21 per hour.
Something to factor in if this is a long term play on your part. 7x more operating cost over nat gas.
This would absolutely be pointless as a whole-home solution, but it's not meant for that. It's meant to heat spaces that traditionally do not have radiant heating supported by a boiler.
You're really better off hardwiring it, unless for some reason you need it to be portable.
2) bottom line is you are WRONG because you can exceed 100% efficiency by moving heat around instead of resistive heating. You're too busy thinking you know a lot just understanding how resistive heating is, when you can't even see the bigger picture of not converting from electricity to thermal energy in the first place. Go open a Physics 101 textbook and read the chapter on the Carnot cycle and go educated yourself
3) I don't care what your overall rate of return is - the point is that you made a factual error by claiming resistive heating is the most efficient. You're now trying to move the goalposts around by saying it's more wallet friendly. Just take the L and move on, you got taught something today about exceeding 100% efficiency.
To double down, you added a recommendation for a heat pump - to heat an accessory structure that gets heated only occasionally, at a cost of multiple times not to mention requiring a higher skilled technician for installation and a more complicated device that's much more prone to failure and has a shorter lifespan than resistive elements.
Hehe, Carnot cycle - let's hope you're a physics major, because if you're in any field of engineering you're going to be bad at it.
That's going to depend on someone's circumstances. You don't know what people are paying these days for electricity vs. the alternatives, and given the efficiency of the electric heater for spot heating it might be less expensive to run on a temporary basis (say, 45 minutes before going into the garage to do some work for an hour or two) versus other means which might be only 30-40% efficient that would need to run for a prolonged period of time to generate the same amount of heat.
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Dryers don't come with cords either.
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