CLAY POT HEATER TEST | Does It Actually Work?!
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This test will show you if the clay pot, flower pot or terracotta heater actually works with tea candles. It will also show how you can make your own with tools and equipment that you may already have in your house. This is a three hour test to see if a small room (bathroom in this case) can be heated up. These can also work for Van Life or in emergency or power out situations. - แนวปฏิบัติและการใช้ชีวิต
Right on man! Thanks for testing this out. I'm going to do it at home. Anything to keep that furnace from kicking on earlier and more often. Thanks again.
Cheers!
Thank you. I was thinking of buying a double walled pot heater now I'm gonna buy one for emergencies
thank you for posting this. it all helps.
Great video thank you for posting actual data.
Very interesting and easy to follow . Thanks
I ran 6 candles in about 4 inch terra cotta pots, 1 candle each. You get about 6 hours each, if you keep the temperature of the wax low that is. Hence 1 potfor each. When you run 10 hour shifts, and your only awake at home for maybe a total of 6 hours, it can help alot. Especially when you have a one room apartment with nothing included
Excellent video. Very well explained. Subscribed from a chilly U.K. A candle has a fixed amount of BTU’s. No amount of clay pots will change that.
Awesome, thank you!
Basically like an old, incandescent, light bulb in terms of heat output.
Very good video! Thanks. Could you use one Crisco oil candle in a glass jar, as well?
I am always amazed at all the different clay pot heaters. The only benefit the clay pots provide is collecting the soot from the candles, and thats a good thing. You don't get any more heat than is given off by the candles. The soot actually builds up and will insulate the pot from the flame however all the heat given off by the candles goes into the room.
What I don't get is how people think that the clay pots somehow increase energy, when all they do is absorb the same amount of energy the candles would give off in free air. If these clay pot things worked as claimed then free energy generators would be a reality, i.e. more energy out than energy in.
@@rflett5797 oh yeah, there are plenty of free energy believers out there. Probably the same ones that think rainbows and unicorn farts charge electric cars
@@rflett5797 They absorb the heat and release it as infrared energy. It's more about a controlled release of heat. The room will likely stay warmer for longer after the candles go out with the pots than without.
@@rflett5797 That because they missing the point of the terracotta heater.
The pot give a bigger surface for air to move through and therefore it remove more moisture from the air faster and create a better circulation of air.
You can get more energy but you can use it more effective.
Moisture on your skin and clothes create a cooling effect when it evaporate.
@@STARFIRESOLAR What? They dont? But I just bought a unicorn on Ebay !
I've got one running now, and I'll tell you can use an old saucepan. Metal, of course is a terrific conductor, and just the same as the clay pot it traps the hot air and converts convection heating into conduction radiation heating. Just remember, the limitation is the candle.
Yes that’s true!
so candle + pot = more heat than just the candles?
is this what you are saying?
@@blindcamel6236 What happens is the heat is transferred to the pot then is radiated from the greater surface area in the form of ambient heat. The pot also acts as a thermal mass as well, where the candle would literally push the heat directly up by convection and you wouldn't feel heat from it unless you literal scrunched up against it. You can get a similar effect by boiling water, you want to slow the heat from going straight up into an ambient surface. The energy yield total would be the same, it's just how you transfer the heat so you can make better use of the energy used.
@@blindcamel6236 Hold your hand 1 foot above a tea light - your hand will feel hot.
Hold your hand a foot about the pot - your hand will feel mildly warm.
The candles are still producing the same heat with the pot; it's just that less is being launched up into your ceiling!
@@MrWirelesscaller What do you put on top of Pan? & Does Candle go into Pot or underneath? Thank you.
OK, very good video. You’re the first to actually shows the temperature that I found, but I thought it’s funny how you said three hours, but you watch only said 2
You should to another experiment using only the candles and no pots. See if the heat is the same with and without the pots.
indeed
That's exactly what I was going to ask. If he did the experiment with just the candles first 🤷
Probably similar and that's what I was gonna ask too...when you eat at a table with two long candles, sometimes it gets too hot just with that so imagine....but food in a clay pot is better so who knows what's true..
The heat output is the same, but its up near the ceiling. What this system does is force the heat into the bottom of the room with radiant and convection heat.
I use waste fat in my burner. So it is free heat, and quite significant heat too.
I use this type of heater all winter in my greenhouse. And I use it in the house too.
@@sallygiakalis4761 awesome idea for the greenhouse!
This video is great! The most fascinating thing, though, is that picture of a moose behind you!
I dig it, thank you.
You had 6 candles lit in the room. Of course it got warmer in there. You don't need the clay pots for that. You should have tried it both ways starting from the same temperature, length of time, any power used in the room (lights), and see if there's any measurable difference at all.
You'll find out the clay pots don't change how much the temperature in the room goes up. What they will do, however, is radiate more heat, which transfers to our skin better than convection from the warm air so it will FEEL warmer near the pots but the actual overall temperature of the room will still be the same.
I was having a similar thought...glad you said this!
Completely right, whats even the point if you don't test without the pots
Nooo noooooo …. I refuse to believe it!
@@munzee28 he's right. The same net amount of heat is generated by the candles regardless of whether they're covered with the pots or not. The pots only absorb the lion's share of that heat and radiate it out, creating a warm spot in the center of the room.
@@18deadmonkeys but but but - it ventilates the air and circulates this out into the entire room and maybe out into the hole area you live in right?
Try a UCO candle lantern (3 candles). Makes up to 5,000 btu's of heat, which will warm up a small room or tent. It's made to put out heat.
Great idea for an ice fishing shack. I would use bigger candles, though.
I'm more impressed that you had the Armaf club de Nuit intense man 😂😂
Ive made a few of those to save heating fuel. I like to enclose my desk and use one under there while working or spending time at the computer. It works wonderful and will heat the whole room eventually. Ditch those cheap tea candles and use a candle with a thicker wick and you will see a huge difference in the temp it creates. 👍
Jewish Shabbat candles are the way to go. Widely available, and burn for ages
I kinda disagree - the tea lights do have some pros - firstly their time of burning is well known in advance - say like 4h which means they are predictable in that regard which is a pro for some people.
Tea lights are also easy to regulate how much heat you want - more or less just by using more or less of them. And ofc tea lights can be bought in bulk quantity and each one is basically dirt cheap.
I think you should repeat the experiment, without the pots... (with the same starting room temperature). That would really tell if the pots make a difference, or if it is just the tea light flames.
I would assume that the solution of just the candles would allow for the heat to just travel up through convection, and you would very much be heating the room top down.
This method traps the heat lower down the room, in the mass of the pot allowing for an element of radiation.
That being said, this is really just a very crude "radiator" which are miss-named, as the vast majority of heat released into the room is most certainly not through radiation, but convection.
I really can't see it having a meaningful impact on a room of any size, and is far more a "personal" heater, and the notion of having a set of naked flames is just reckless and dangerous.
Nah.................................It doesn't TRAP heat lower in the room, ALL heat rises. And there is absolutely no additional heat from the terra cotta pot. No net gain. @@DouglasFurlong
you are joking right? you have to be. that's too funny
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@@kaylisperry6454 Dave, Benny and Doug aren't joking. 🤣😂🤣😂
I would like to see you repeat the test just using the candles on top of the ceramic tile
Thanks!
Welcome!
Loving the club de nuit
thanks so much for giving us the facts
My pleasure!
Good presentation
Instead of the cylinder drill to separate the two pots use three small pebbles (or similar). That way the hot air rises inside the inner pot then down in between the inner and outer pots. The way you have it set up the hot air doesn't flow as freely inside the gap between the two pots.
Good idea!
This should be pinned or put in the description... very good advice.
@@Ascender4ever Cheers. It's all about getting convection going and maximising surface area. I use this idea in very cold weather in my greenhoues, costs me pennies in tealights rather than pounds in kerosene or electricity.
It doesn't matter how you set it up. A tea candle will produce about 30 watts of heat, and you can't increase that.
Let's say your candle will burn for 4 hours, and produce about 30 watts of heat. You'd need 20-30 candles, replacing them every 3-4 hours, to heat a 10 by 10 room. And it doesn't matter if they're under a clay pot or not, they aren't going to produce anymore heat.
It's not an effective way to heat, and it's not cost effective. Taking the mid range...25 candles changed every 3.5 hours...you'd need 171 candles a day. The cheapest candles I could find in a quick search were $7/125, so you'd be spending roughly $9.50 a day for heat.
You're also risking a fire, because they can flash and explode. It's not safe, it's not cost effective, ad it doesn't work if you're only burning 4-8 candles at a time.
@@davidpaylor5666 Sorry, but no. A tea light only produces about 30 watts of heat. No matter how you set it up, you can't increase that. The laws of physics are against you on this one.
Howdy.
I truly apprechiate people who have persistance of vision and take the effort to experiment and publish for common good.
Makes sense. Radiation heating feels several degrees warmer than the ambient. It warms where needed. One's skin and clothes.
Regards.
They work aslong as the Room Area isn't to large. Add another one to a larger room, you may need 3 or more if the room is rather large or big.
I would hang Drape or Blanket to cut the room size if you are running low on candles.
Just remember to put a Paver under the Heater as not to burn or scorch your counter top.
I like using my Terra Cotta Heater.
Be Safe
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Underfloor heating works very well because it's all over the floor, under the carpet and the heat rises slowly due to the close temperature differential between the heat source and the air temperature. Unfortunately it uses electricty to heat the cables and it's not the cheapest way at present.
Very true!
Will it give the same heat without the terra-cotta pots? Seems like a lot of work for a few degrees increase.
But can it be duplicated in freezing weather, where this would be a more realistic setting for one to use this system? How long would it take to go from 32F (0C) to say, 45F (7.2C) (coats and other clothing and blankets could help keep it warm enough to survive)?
Not sure what kind of lights you have in the room, but lights can heat a room up by themselves. The test should be done with the lights never on in the room, or the lights should be tested over time by themselves to see if they are affecting room temp(over hours).
That's so crazy! You can heat for 5 euros for like two weeks with that. I want to do van living when I put together enough money, this will come in handy.
Be very careful with the candle.
real practicle experiment ,you could even build this into a compact box with vents put it on castors and it would be portable around the home ,either way it far better than sitting in the cold ,good post btw .
Thanks so much!
If you’re looking for heat transfer, fire to air, wouldn’t it be the same as letting those burn in the open?
GOOD DEMO
Thank you for providing data, and ideas for one of these little heaters. I am curious about carbon monoxide and dioxide levels in a small room.
That’s a good point, I could make a test / video on this soon!
@@philg I’m waiting for a another time when it’s in the 20’s in Michigan and I’m going the set up my BBQ thermometer which has several leads in a tent. I’ll be able to get temps outside, inside tent and directly above pot. Plus I’ll put a CO2 detector in the tent. Awesome video with data. I appreciate it.
Probably fairly similar to just having 3 candles burning in a room as they normally would, just a faster curve as they with likely burn at a faster rate.
A bit of natural ventilation would probably be enough. You'd be feeling pretty sick before it became life threatening.
@@philg Hi. If you did not plug the top pot hole would the system still work and radiate the heat? Some videos say to leave the hole open on both pots or just inside pot.
As long as you allow plenty of air access, you will have no monoxide/di-oxide problem as they are the products of incomplete combustion.
This was done well but it needs to be don in the cold of a winter day... with a power outage you may also have a wind factor constantly dropping the whole house temp.
I would also like to see how long it would take a small room to raise the carbon monoxide level. Thanks.
Try again, but block the inside hole and leave outside hole open, this creates convection heat as well by. drawing air between pots as the inside pot heats up. Use a stove grate to set them on and/or maybe a metal sink stopper with holes on top of inside pot holding up outside pot, to allow that air flow. Also just watched making candles out of crisco to last longer. One commenter mentioned to be careful glass jars don't get too hot and explode, so why not get a smaller crisco can and stick couple b-day candles in it, and don't have to worry about exploding glass. It would be interesting to try an experiment using the air-flow type and the blocked air type. I have used this in a small RV and it does work.Pots will get hot enough to burn a round circle on a rug if ya take it off to check candles...ask me how i know, lol! This is a method everyone should know about r emergencies. Great job Phil!
Can you do a video using your method and link the video? Would love to see it
@@cheeriosquad4229 Yes, I agree! We are very cold here in Germany, and the videos here are too complicated! Thank you , just in case!
I use waste fat/oil in a suitable container and a floating wick. Burns longer and stops fat going down the drain.
@@sallygiakalis4761 I don't cook with fat, so would not work for me.
Actually had a glass jar explode on me a couple of years ago, put me right off making my own again 🤷♂️😂
I agree that you would need to try the experiment w/ only the candles. Also, you confounded it by leaving the lights on in the room; if they give off any heat at all (some LED lights do & incandescent most certainly do) they may have been responsible for the increase in air temperature. So see if the room temperature increases with candles only and with no electric lights. I'm no physics expert, but the little I do know says you only get out of a system what you put into it.
Super!
Very interesting
You should tell us if it's day or night and what the outside temp is.
How much would the room heat up if you just burned the candles??
I use 2 eight hour tea light candles under a plant pot the same size as yours, so 2 separate pots in my caravan & it definitely heats up my van in the UK. We're just going into winter so I'll see how good after the first cold snap, I can get 18 8hr candles for £2 so it's much cheaper than paying for gas, petrol or paraffin. I'm going to outfit my van with these pots this winter but knowing our government they'll put the price of candles up 😠
It definitely works though, you get much more heat than you would from the candle itself.✌️
cheers!
I made a shroud with a 850g home bargains candle. Added crackle wicks and a small stove fan. It heats up to 200°c really fast and the fan sends the heat out into the room. Lasts a week at 8hours a day. The fan also helps draw air to the flames from the vent holes in the shroud. £2.99 a refil. It will hopefully do for the winter while the prices are £9 for 40min of central heating
@@salaciouscreations4323 U made me curious, explain better please
""you get much more heat than you would from the candle itself.""" factually, physically, scientifically, Impossible. You cannot "magic up" free energy out of nowhere. You get exactly the same BTUs of heat from the candles regardless. Look up the First Law of Thermodynamics.
Yes, I checked today and the price of candles have gone 👆
Don't place the candles touching each other. Space them a little ways apart.
You basically had a temperature increase of 3 degrees F over an hour or so (in an extremely small room). To make it really work you'd have to have quite a few of these clay pot heaters.
I stuck one tea light in a Dakota fire pit in an area where I wasn't supposed to have a fire and stayed warm enough when I was right by the fire.
Since it is a very small space, I wonder how warm it would get from just being in the room without the candle. I know from experience working in a closed off bathroom that it gets rather warm quickly.
I'm thinking the light bulbs did a lot of the heating.
The original one (from Wales I believe) said to use a metal bolt to join the 2 pots, with washers to create the space between. That way the metal gets hot and spreads the heat to the pots. Would be curious to see if there is a difference.
That's exactly how I made mine, hHe 3 of them and used about 500+ candles over winter. £3.75 per 100 candles. Hopefully wont need them from mid march but they do Heat up my rooms enough to not need the heating on during the day.
How many high output bulbs are in that room, did you start this in the morning as it heated up the ambient room...
Hmmm, good point. I will re do it with a different heat source and lights off.
Who the hell needs heaters when you have a gaming pc
Nice: you did the experiment correctly. Multiple candles in a small rather well insulated room without a high ceiling. When people slam these heaters, they need to realize the conditions of the test. In case of a power loss, they will not keep you warm and cozy, but they will keep you from freezing to death.
Try capping the inner pot or even not at all, you can create a convection effect that way which works better. I have the two smaller pots bolted together, I use a long bolt and get one of the candles straight under it to maximize heat but use enough nuts and washers to ensure the pots aren't touching, and then have a larger pot sitting over the top so the heat can rise up out the small hole in the large pot. I have a second set up with just two pots with no holes capped at all (usually cap the top hole with a coin for about 30 mins to begin with) which pours much more heat out the top and strangely less paraffin smell.
the candles emit a finite amount of Btu's. Nothing is going to change that.
@@uberdome1 yeah no shit, thanks for that. You clearly haven't tried it out yet. It's about saving up the heat from earlier in the terracotta which can then warm more air as it gets sucked through, the pots also radiate heat too. I've tested every method including just a bunch of candles by them selves. I use an actual heater for the first hour but then save on power for the the rest of the day. Good for single room use.
good video im going to try this, since the energy prices have gone batshit-crazy - also its impressive and gratifying to discover that the President of the Ukraine finds time to make these helpful youtube vids ;)
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How long after the candles went out did the terracotta keep radiating heat?
4/5 minutes I’d guess
YES !
From my tries your pots look to high from the candles.
To create a eating system, terra-cotta must be hot to redistribute the heat.
But a specific pot designed specifically for heating can be considered as well.
Oh that’s a good point I will have to make another Test
What are the clay pots for?
yes it does! i use a double pot screwed together and i can say that it work well with me, the bigger the candle the better, bees wax is prefered. It is really a game changer when you lost electricity. Everyone should build one for those hard times. And also have a box full of candles in the closet.
People can also have a few wicks and cooking oil or lard as well to use in place of the candles. Knowledge for others who may need it (you seem prepared like me), so for those space challenged there is more than one way to skin a cat.
I used three different size clay pots inside each other, on a clay bottom flower pot saucer , all pots bolted to a threaded rod with nuts and washer spacers. With three small feet (short bolts with nuts and washers. All drilled through the clay. Be careful drilling as the clay will pop out a crater when the drill comes out the other side. Drill just enough to see a small hole, then finish the hole from the other side. No craters ! I put one in my workshop on the floor close to where I stand. I noticed a difference in the temp. after a while. Cheap bag of candles from various stores too. Just shop around for the best prices. Cheap heat, lower electric bills and barely any smell !!!! FYI
Good heat capture?
The terracotta pots are only going to slow the heat from rising. Only useful as a personal heater in a small space. Something you could snuggle up near during a power outage.
Yes, the clay pot heater does work very well but be extremely careful as the melted wax has the potential to ignite and once that happens the flame can get easily out of control and set off the smoke alarm. Multiple small 5 or 6 inch clay pot heaters with a single tea lite candle is much much safer and better alternative to using a single big clay pot with multiple tea lite candles.
Clay flower pots are extremely cheap and so are tea lite candles.
If safety is a main concern then one should choose the single clay pot and single tea lite candle route.
The clay pot heater doesn't work any better than burning the same number of candles without the clay pot, because they don't add any energy by adding a pot. All you did was make a hand warmer.
Warning!!
Always set these up in some kind of fire and heat proof tray! And always treat them as a potential cause of a house fire.
I love these things and I have used a few different designs. They are great at taking the edge off on a really cold day.
That said, remember the critical dynamic here: the candles are heating each other, just as much as they are heating the pots. If the candles reach their flashpoint, ALL the melted wax will ignite.
When that happens you will have lots of little pots of flaming wax spitting every where, and a runaway heating reaction as all that fuel dumps its energy at a very rapid pace, potentially vaporising it too. I have seen some horror stories of people almost losing their homes, and in one instance their boat, because of this runaway reaction.
My honest advice is ...
NEVER leave them unattended, or sleep with these lit.
Periodically check with a laser thermometer just to check the temps arent too wild.
Assume they are a massive fire hazard
Use a drip tray to contain any spillage/disaster
Have reliable and instant means to put out a fire close by.
These things are great fun, and a lifesaver in a power outage, but you have to treat them with respect. They are, after all, potentially a mini-fat fryer disaster waiting to happen.
Thank you for the tests and careful benchmarking Phil
It is like watching grass grow.... exciting
Thank you!!
Is it worth it? 2 hours for an increase of just 2ºC in a small room?
What actual size are the two pots?
and what would it be without the pots. it will be just as worm but not the radiant heat
Okay, so this may be taking things a little too far but couldn't we find a way to use thermo-accoustic's to power the heating of the clay pots from external pipes OR from Fresnel lenses directing light from lamps in the home onto the pipes directing kinetic energy into the home from a diaphragm with magnets on it which in turn produces electricity from a spun wire, some sort of always on system?
In inches, what size are the clay pots?
Use the Crisco small can with three wicks. Would last many hours.
What does the clay pot add? Just burning a few candles would get the same effect wouldn’t it?
Mass
You should try the test with some water in the little top that you covered the pots with. I think the temperature would be a little higher in the room because of the humidity.
Thanks for the tip!
*To those saying the clay pots don't add any heat -- you're right, of course.* But the experiment, as shown, still works. What the pots are doing, as they heat up, is to store the heat in a location -- the counter where the pots are located -- where we're able to be near it and make use of it (till the pots cool). If the clay pots weren't there and the candles were burning, the same amount of heat energy would be in the room (till the door opened, giving the heated air an escape), but all the heat would have risen to ceiling-height, above most people's heads... not a useful place for it to be.
Especially considering most old homes the pipes are in the floor & not the ceiling like newer homes have.
Good music.
It is just simply transferral of heat from one medium to another. Without the pot over the candle, that heat will disperse into the whole room. The clay pot can focus the heat into a smaller space.
Exactly :)
It's facinating watching these experiments, as if by magic you are going to heat the whole room all over by 3 degrees C, it will never work. A few basic facts, hot air rises, you can't stop it. Putting a clay pot over the naked flame flame will slow it down a bit as it heats the pot up, but eventually, the hot air will rise up and heat the ceiling area. Hot air will not flow sideways, it will rise up. If you have a cold room, say the air temp is 3 degrees C, close to freezing, with any heat source such as the clay pot, the hot air will rise faster due to buoyancy because of the differential of the air temperature and hot air, just as on a freezing winter's day the smoke out of a chimney goes straight up vertically and fast. Get yourself a four poster bed with curtains on the top and sides and try the experiment again, you have a much air smaller space above the bed, and it will warm up quicker, but you may not wake up the next morning. Anyway, the average human body gives off 600 watts of heat which is probably more than a few tea light candles, so, get yourself a four poster bed and a thick duvet and you will be toasty warm , especially if there's two of you in there exercising.
Did this last year and the huge problem is the soot. No matter how often you trim the candle wicks they still like to turn sooty after a few hour burning and it is most noticeable when you blow your nose the next morning and see all the black you inhaled all night. I was using two pots with two candles and the pots themselves was encased in a long box with a fan on one end. It put out good heat yet the soot is not good for your lungs and wasnt worth it in my opinion.
Yeah that can be an issue
Use Beeswax candles. I use beeswax candles.
100% pure beeswax candles burn clean and have their own natural honey/floral scent even when not burning. Unlike paraffin candles, they do not contain any additives, synthetic chemicals or leave behind black soot from smoke when they are burned.
Beeswax candles are the healthiest choice in candles. Made from the caps of bee honeycombs, beeswax candles burn clean, are very long-burning, and give off a pleasant natural fragrance as they burn. Beeswax candles are dripless when burned properly, and release negative ions which help clean the air in a room.
So after 3 hours it was still only 67 degrees. I’m not sure I would say. “ wow I’m warm now”. I suppose you could do multiple set ups of this in your room if needed. But it is a good method for SUPPLEMENTAL heat
A more cost efficiant method is to use standard tabel candles.
They burn twice as long and at 3 times the intensity so you only need to use 1.
A batch of 50 costs the same as a pack of 100 tea lights so you end up with 4 times more heat per cost.
I use three terracotta pots inside one another separated with a long bolt, nuts and penny washers. Penny washer placed over the outside hole, bolt through, penny washer inside then nut to hold in place. Several large nuts or stack of penny washers then next terracotta held in place with penny washer and nut. More large nuts or stack of penny washers then last terracotta layer held in place and if there is any length of bolt left more penny washer held in place with a nut. The idea is to get a large volume of metal in place that collects then irradiated the heat.
Four 8hr tealights are then placed on a house brick with two house bricks one each side laid to form a U shape. light tealights and place the assembled pots over the top.
The room I heat is 12 x 14 x 10 and it reaches a comfortable 14c with two of those in the room.
For many that would be to low a temperature. However, when coming in from a freezing cold outside it is a very balmy room to enter. As long as you layer up if you are going to be sitting in the room it will be enough.
EDIT:
Forgot to add I keep a pair of oven gloves close by so the tealights can be replaced once they burn out every 8 hrs.
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Try using the cleaning rod to take out the build up from the regulator to the burning chamber, hopefully this helps!
use carbon felt as your wick and vegetable oil. The carbon felt will wick up the oil. The wick will last indefinitely without burning up like the candle wick.
What about the fumes given off ?????? ... all fumes from burning any oil or wax are toxic ... FFS people way the fuck up ... Oh sorry you can't cos you're dead.
@@mickeymouse4897 Who said anything about locking yourself in an unventilated bathroom?
What happens if you just put the candles alone and see what happens. You can not increase the total BTUs with just the posts. It would be interesting information.
Yeah and that's just with small candles if you use a big Crisco one it'll be way hotter
Good video. Great content and well presented. Please adjust your camera so I’m not looking up your nose.😊
Try again with the lights off.
You don't need the lights on for the experiment to work.
How many Watts were the light bulbs?
Were the light bulbs energy saving, or LED?
You’ll need a room made out of a giant terracotta plant pot to get warm using this method
I appreciate the initial use of the word "Emergency." I'm a 33 year HVAC professional and candles of all sorts put out more soot, and add pollutants to the ambient more than is readily apparent. This system DOES work, but there is no free lunch. I am concerned about unattended candles, and soot. Once, again, the presence of soot, and the degradation of Indoor Air Quality is not readily apparent. Regular, and often use of candles, when other heating means are available, is not generally a great idea.
People also don't realise in an enclosed small room Carbon Monoxide can kill you.
So it raised the temp about 2°F after several hours?
no, 2 °c which is 3.6 °F DIFFERENCE
Oddly lower temperatures like 67f feel warm if warming from 66 but feel chilly if cooling from 68. The green lobby seem to have got most of the world accepting being cold now, normal indoor temperatures were 70-72 (21-22c) but now people are accepting 66-67.
I guess I need to find a girlfriend to cuddle up!
The "0riginal" version that I was most aware of utilized a carrier bolt inverted with nuts and washers to connect the large and small terra cotta pots together allowing the head of the bolt to come close to the tip of a single candle flame.
The bolt tightened the surface of the two pots together for better conduction and to concentrate convection from the flame up too the connected pots. So there was N0 hole at the top for any heat to escape. Since the smaller pot was suspended from the larger pot, the larger pot better shielded the candle and concentrated energy.
I belive the videoed version contains too much airspace underneath the pots, IMHO
IT... would also be interesting to repeat your test with just 6 candles burning atop the ceramic tile, without any pots.
In my observation, your probably releasing a significant amount of heat from the room each time you open the bathroom door, compacted by 3X or 4X.
Just a thought !
I will have to try Thai
How did you find tea light candles that burn over 3 hours?!?!?!
Thanks for sharing. I was laughing, I thought I heard an Alexa going off in the background.
I use those little candles, without terra cotta pots. Mostly for lights. But if am going to get a tiny bit of heat, I would go to Sams Club and purchase a case of Safe Heat for indoor use, and have a carbon monoxide meter just in case. A little camping stove with a grill on top, bit enough to use with small and or large terra cotta pots, and to heat up water. Let's be real, something this small will take around 1/2 to 45 minutes to heat up water. If you have bullion you can put it into the pot (depending on how big it is) 1 bullion for a small quart pot, a tad larger 1 1/2 package or cubes. At least your getting something. You can also fry and egg or bacon, but it will take more then 15 minutes. But ya have to make sure the area is secure and safe, where nothing can be knocked over. Then you might wind up getting heat you don't want (house fire). Keep a fire estiquisher around in the area you plan on heating yourself (no tents) or cooking. Keep an eye on that Carbon meter. It will tell you if carbon build up starts in your area. You need to ventilate.
Very interesting! Thank you for sharing
What happens if you just burn the candles no pot?
Should try this from a cold room. Like if you got home and the power had been out all day
A next video!
Did you close the door when you entered each time
Yes I did!
Will there be a problem with smoke detectors if we use this
2:16 "as you can see we have a hole where heat can come out"
*Proceeds to plug it up*