2006-12-19 02:40:45 · 2 answers · asked by johnnydean86 4 in Home & Garden ➔ Do It Yourself (DIY)
The blue flame heaters heat the air, like a furnace. The infrared heaters heat whatever is in front of them with long-wave infrared radiation. Heat lamps put out long wave infrared, for example.
If you turn down the heat in the house, you could save money and be comfy by using an infrared heater because you can point it at where you are and it will warm you or whatever the radiation hits. Anything warm emits that radiation, but heaters designed to do it convert more to it.
2006-12-19 02:57:58 · answer #1 · answered by roadlessgraveled 4 · 3⤊ 0⤋
Some heaters designed to emit short-wavelength infrared (i.e. they glow) have reflectors, so that the heat radiation all goes in one direction. If that's what you want, then that would be more efficient than one that emits the same power in all directions.
2016-05-23 07:20:07 · answer #2 · answered by ? 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋