Product Recommendation - [Room Heater]

In this post, we are providing at glance the products we consider to be some of the best offerings in the market in their respective categories. The products mentioned below have been put to rigorous tests, compared against the competing products from multiple brands, and have been analysed on various aspects pertaining to their intended use. For a comprehensive post on Room heaters, you may read our detailed guide - https://shoppinaire.blogspot.com/2022/10/a-detailed-guide-to-buying-room-heater.html

Convection/Fan Heaters:-
Best Choice 1, Best Choice 2, My Preferred Choice, Best Choice 3, Best Choice 4, Best Choice 5, Best Choice 6, Best Choice 7, Best Choice 8, Best Choice 9 and Best Choice 10

Quartz Heaters:-
Best Choice 1, My Preferred Choice, Best Choice 2, Best Choice 3, Best Choice 4, Best Choice 5, Best Choice 6, Best Choice 7, Best Choice 8 and Best Choice 9

Oil-filled Radiator Heaters:-
Best Choice 1, My Preferred Choice, Best Choice 2, Best Choice 3, Best Choice 4, Best Choice 5, Best Choice 6, Best Choice 7, Best Choice 8, Best Choice 9, Best Choice 10, Best Choice 11 and Best Choice 12

Note: In our constant endeavour to assist you in making an informed buying decision, we test the new launches of the products on multiple parameters, and if they stand tall in our analysis we periodically add them to the below mentioned list of our recommended products. So, if you plan to make the purchase at a later time, you may visit the links once again at the very time of buying to ensure that the purchase turns out to be a very fruitful one.

Recapitulating on the most crucial aspects of buying a room heater -

• AREA OF THE ROOM

The overall area of the room one would use the heater for, has a major influence on the wattage specifications one should purchase it with. As a thumb rule, 10–11 watts of power is required to heat 1 square foot of space inside your room. So if your room has an area of about 200 square feet, it would be wise to decide on a heater having wattage 2000 watts or more for obtaining effective heating from it.

• COST CUTTING TECHNIQUES

It is imperative to be aware of the ways in which some manufacturers resort to cutting production costs in order to maximize profits and in turn deliver a sub-standard product to the customers, the components of which have a very short shelf life and may require frequent repairs/replacements.

• Low-grade blower fan. A potent, high-grade fan is one of the most crucial components of a heater as it is responsible for dispersing the heat produced by the heating element into the surroundings, thereby raising the temperature of the room. Unfortunately, most buyers do not pay attention to the blower fan deployed in the room heater, and this gives some manufacturers a perfect opportunity to increase their profit margin. In order to reduce production costs, they tend to install an inferior, substandard fan in the room heaters they produce that is very inept in spreading the heat into the surroundings, resulting in inefficient heating of the room. Such practices increase one's energy consumption as one tends to keep the room heater running for longer durations than one would have otherwise done. Furthermore, over a period of few months, the excessive heat build-up inside the heater causes the components of the heater to malfunction and finally melt, causing the entire unit to be non-operational. Cost of repairing the heater might range from a few hundred bucks to more than a thousand bucks and this process is often recurring.

• Poor quality diathermic oil. As discussed previously in this post, the two characteristics of diathermic oil for which it finds its application in oil-filled heaters are high specific heat capacity and high boiling point. For these characteristics, diathermic oil is costly in nature. Thus, to save production costs and to maximize profits, some manufacturers fill low-grade diathermic oil in the heaters they manufacture adulterated with mixtures of other economical oils, consequently lowering the specific heat capacity and boiling point. The result - oil that takes a little while to reach high temperatures, thus the user needs to keep the heater running for longer in order to adequately heat the room. Also, this poor-grade oil tends to cool down a lot faster than the high-quality one, hence, the electricity consumption is more, and one may incur higher running costs.

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