Low watt space heater EASY BUILD
ฝัง
- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 20 ก.ย. 2024
- EXCLUSIVE parts list, bonus content and prize giveaways on my; / unlimited
Continuing from the flower pot heater and small tile space heater I decided to do a ROOM HEATER. This heater is 600w and gives off a lot of heat. Forget radiators this will do the job.
It made with 50w halogen bulbs behind ceramic tiles.
![วันเกิดเธอ (TO YOU) - PHUWIN [ OFFICIAL MV ]](http://i.ytimg.com/vi/_ROx1Bj3T0Y/mqdefault.jpg)
Great idea! We have a back mudroom on our home that my wife and I have our coffee in each morning. It's well insulated except for the floor. We usually take the inside door off in the spring and put it back on in late fall...now. We like the light coming in through our south windows but really miss it over the winter because it's too cold to leave the door open. Winter is long in northern Canada ...6 months of snow! 😠 I thought I'd take a chance and try your little heater because it's cheap to make and not too hard to look at. I got lucky and they had a clearance on a 6 piece halogen light kit. I used 3 lights and a piece of 1x2 porcelain tile that was left over from our bathroom reno. It warms the air just enough that we can leave the door off all year and get the light that we were missing! 👍👍 Great idea!
Good design. You can increase the efficiency with a 12V PC fan. The fan is going to distribute the heat more effectively than still air, so you can reduce the amount of the bulbs.
So glad you are here sharing this beautiful life!
600 watts = 2047.285 BTUh ?
I made a little quartz-Halogen light bar for heating up the cool basement Ham radio operating area. Basement is about 60F to 50F for much of the winter. I didn't shield the lights because they (10 lamps) are connected to 120vac with every 2 lamps in series. (10 lamps in 5 pairs) 60vac per lamp=1/2 power from each. Not super bright. But you can feel the heat from 2 feet within seconds. Maybe these will last a very long time running at 50% power.
The Kill-a-watt meter says 160 watts, so each of the 10 lamps is using 16 watts. (160 watts= 545.9427 BTUh). My chair is 2 to 3 feet from the light bar, (vertical wall mount) and it gets to be a bit too warm after about about 10 minutes.
Anyways, the plan is to use this setup to do battle with SAD during the winter months. I want to do this by going down to Ham shack and doing some early morning Ham radio, while being exposed to a simulated sun rise. :)
i use halogen cooker lid it got the timer on and temperatures. heats the room up quicker
WOW !! FANTASTIC !! I'm saving your video so I can refer back to it.
I like the idea of a cheap little fan to move the warm air around the van. Brilliant !!
Brilliant... This is not just a play on words because of the bulbs, but it's a great and innovative idea. Thank you and God Bless. LJ [from the colonies]
Attaching the fan unit to the bottom might make it more efficient because you can probably distribute more heat around the room before the heat rises to the ceiling. If you need light and heat, this will do the job. Thanks for the video!
This is not more efficient than the existing heaters you are trying to replace. This might even be worse because you are holding a higher temperature directly against a wall which will allow heat to escape faster to the outside.
This is probably more expensive than a commercial solution, and it certainly will be once you have to replace the bulbs.
Glad you enjoyed making it, I don't mean to dissuade you. I just think that people should know that it is not going to save them money on electricity.
Have you researched far infrared? Most of the heat emitted is in the form of far infrared and that's why it 'works'. The room can still be cold and you will feel warm with far infrared because FI waves heat objects and not air. Most people who have not worked with heating systems miss this 'basic point'. Ceramics are known for their far infrared properties. I'm actually making a video on 'HOW & WHY plant pot heaters work'. I'll also "enjoy making that one" ;) The way you're framing your thinking on this is similar to thinking that the sun heats all the air around earth and the space between.
That's a nice little project, and sensible too.
Thanks a lot! Some people get a bit serious about these builds instead of just enjoying the build and experimentation. Nice that you get it :)
Wonderful idea with Tiles 💡
If you used a thick metal plate and painted the backside flat black it would get hotter. You might even paint the backside of the tiles flat black for increased heat. Just an idea. What if you put magnifying glasses on each light to multiply the lights energy? I see some potential here. Halogen lights produce a lot of heat but are not very efficient. I wonder if a more efficient light could give a similar heat range with even less power consumption.
Love your videos thank you ! Great tips on the fly!!
I'd like to see step by step for each part and a list of parts (amazon or home depot links)! definitely want to build something like this, I've been wanting a space heater but all the ones sold by amazon are junk and break easily (this one seems like it would be easy to fix and the parts are simple).
Sadly, he wants money for that information.
You could reduce the power consumption by powering it with a water cooled induction pancake heater coil with two amplifying coiles one on each side to produce cold electricity. The venting for surplus heat is great but the surplus lumens could be used with photoelectric conversion and inversion and supercapacitor storage to back feed the power circuit. Some believe such a unit maybe efficient enough to be called over unity. Such a device is pictured on TH-cam look for Water cooled induction hearer and there are some demonstrations of the technique I'm describing minus the photovoltaic conversion of that incredible potential. What do you have to lose?
That sound like a rabbit hole I ready want to explore. Very interesting
kulutus sama 1500W-2000W.. koska termostaatti. on lämmitin päällä hetkellisesti, kun lämpötila on saavutettu.
How do you remove the tile at 155 degree without burning your hand
Can you Show How box is build
I am looking to heat a greenhouse, Stromberg’s chickens Starplate geodesic dome greenhouse. I am wondering if you think that building one or several of these heaters or several of your flowerpot heaters placed around the dome would keep it toasty for my semi-tropical cactus dragon fruit plants! I am forwarding this and other videos to my husband to see if I can engage him in the process as he’s the electrical person in my family! Thank you for your wonderful videos 💚👍
The best form of heat in greenhouses is 'far infrared'. Plant pots and most ceramics omit far infrared. However there are many far infrared heaters you can buy off the shelf. These tile heaters are misunderstood in many ways. The assumption is always that you need to heat the 'space'. Far infrared are light rays in the spectrum that heat objects on contact. Most of the heat from a camp fire works in a similar way. The sun gives off far infrared light and in fact it's those rays we feel and not a blast of heat. As you can imagine it would be impossible to heat all the space between us and the sun so we could feel its glow. Be happy to help you make the best choice if you have any other questions.
@@SocialHigh thank you for your reply! i am going to order some lights and hopefully these little self-made heaters will keep my semi-tropical fruit plants happy when the temperatures start to drop! I appreciate all of your great videos!
Great job, i like your ideas
There would be no need to put the aluminium on the bottom, the bulbs will last longer getting rid of the heat faster rather than trapping it in. It would also benefit from being closer to the floor.
I'm using a low watt quartz heater at the moment, my halogen one was better as it heated the air too but it's broken and needs replaced. 1200, 800 and 400 Watts; 400 Watts is enough to heat my 14 X 11 room throughout winter. Sometimes I'll use 800 Watts in the morning to heat the room up quicker, about 30 minutes is long enough for that though.
A Good halogen heater can be had for under £30.00, I remember when they were £9.99.
It's just a pity they blow rather quickly, same as quartz, I only have one bar working on the quartz heater, one bar per winter at most seems to be how long they last unfortunately.
I think the far red infrared hitting ones body is probably the most efficient.
I point mine at my legs but facing away from my eyes, not Good for the eyes.
you could add some small fans on top off it to spread the head faster
Love this idea, would love to know if you could run one of these off a solar battery and an inverter? But also Halogen bulbs have been banned in the UK so what alternatives might work?
That's why I used less power on my Halogen light rack (heating rail). It's 160 watts (see my post above) I can run it off my Ham Radio power back-up solar-battery-inverter system. It's 800 watts of Solar panels, charging a 6.3KWh battery bank driving a 3000W sine wave 120vac inverter.
If the sun is out, it doesn't use any battery power! Even while running the 135 watt freezer load in the basement. My Ham gear uses low power too. I turned the CPU power down on the tiny PC and it's fan doesn't turn on anymore. :)
great build brother I am buying some automotive led fog lights and see how hot they get i might make that into a cab heater for my truck and place it on my dash and let the ice melt . im hoping i can find a 12 volt switch i can activate with my cellular phone .. if not ill try to get a switch that has a timer and set it for the next day so the cab is warmed up by the time i need it.. i will use a separate power source and have it scaled down where its portable most off the shelf automotive heaters are useless I tried a few ..I see that the wasted heat from a light source is many times more efficient than the heating coils found in space heaters.. thank you for the video .. just a small question have you ever tried to use a magnifying glass into a beam and see if you can raise the temperature of the ceramic tiles.. i know we have all used one to burn things from the light from the sun I just wonder if the bulbs get bright enough to allow a focused beam to be amplified ? I also wonder if a reflective aluminum tape could be placed on the board where the light bulbs are housed and farther increase the heating and stop the wood from absorbing any heat.. thank you for sharing and dont pay any attention to the haters online that say stuff like your heater wont heat shit...lol
I made this new video because of the "Won't heat shit" comment so wasn't wasted.
I'm also going to do a video for a cab window heater and may use your idea of condensing the light to assist it. Thanks.
Your using light for heat ? If you made your own coil and connected that up to the mains it would use a lot less energy because you would not be producing light.
The idea is to make things that anyone can take on. As you'll see from future videos I try an keep it 'simple'. Most people wouldn't know where to start with a coil or even know what one was. But would love to see your ideas on how that would work in action.
If you have 120 volts of AC in a wall outlet whats wrong with these small floor heaters ?
Thanx, keep going bro.
Great idea . What is the Amp draw on this build ? I am wanting to build something like this
600w on a 220v (European AC) so 2.72 amps. On a 42v DC system it would draw about 14 amps or. 5.45 amps on a 110v (American AC).
How about those bulbs to solar pannels
Could you use an oil or something like in regular radiator and would it change something?
Interesting build, but you can buy a small heater for $10-15. Mine has 2 heat settings and a thernostat. Low is 700w , high is 1500w/ Im guessing one could not build what you did for less than $15
Yes, but check your power usage!
what stops the tiles from shattering from the heat? I tried this a year ago with a tile and a 500 halogen bulb and it got so hot it shattered.
Not had that problem. But you can also use the ceramic tiles with mini squares that work just as well. I also use terracotta tiles that hold the heat better. I also leave about an inch gap between the tiles and the bulbs.
how to do it
so how does this save energy over a 600w hardware store heater
It’s using your light source as a heater
@@SocialHigh every light source is also a heater..
@@SocialHigh and also every other electric equipment. Like a bitcoin mining computer if you also use the heat, its saving energy?
I would say a heatpump is the only thing what deserves the term "saving energy"..
@@Hzwo1990 The key factor is the 'infrared'. Ceramic omits infrared which heat things and not so much spaces.
So I love your work. But your missing one element. Say you have a roof and you want heat and light.
That's what we need is heat and light. Now what if you used an led. Then mounted it on a terra cotta tile.
Thus getting light. And heat. ?
For sure that is a great idea! In my van I'm going to use this and put some terracotta strip shelves with halogen bulbs underneath to double as lights and heaters. Thanks for the creative feedback
Heating with electric is basically short circuiting, it makes no difference how you short circuit, I like the idea but 12 halogen bulbs is a waste of effort, may as well run 1 600watt flood lamp🙂
But that would almost triple the watts. The idea was to reduce the watts used.
Can you buy the flexible film in Canada that you used in your van?
No I buy it on aliexpress.
@@SocialHigh just use a UK plug converter?
nice
Although I don't know how to build stuff like that myself, I'm always looking for ways to cut the energy consumption in my travel trailer. I have several small space heaters with fans. I quit using them because I don't like the noise, and didn't like that I could feel the cold air circulating behind it before it gets sucked in.
So I got two radiator heaters that work very well, even on the lowest setting. They're quiet, too. I place them against a wall and as the heat moves up, it hits the ceiling and moves towards the center of the room. I'm not electrically inclined, so I wouldn't know how much energy it's drawing. I'll look forward to seeing what you come up with for the car. Thank you.
Yip I get that you don't build stuff like a lot of people. I just recently started building myself when I got the van. A great product I bought was a tube heater. It only uses 120watts and gets VERY hot. And it's cheat at about $30. It connects to 110v (standard plug-in US). The cab heaters I'll be doing a full review of all the stuff that's out there and show you what heat they give off. Some time very soon :)
Enapp Open Source Energy: Thank you.
600 w heater...