The Electric Infra Red Heater or Rosy Glow.

Sometimes you want to heat a small part of a large open area.  When this is the case it probably isn't the most efficient thing to be doing to be heating the air and throwing that warm air over the thing you want to heat.

If you try to use a 3kW fan heater in the centre of a large open warehouse it simply won't work, You really need to look at a more direct form of heater. 

One option is to look at a diesel fired infra-red heater, but I'll cover those in another article.

The common and sensible solution is to use an Electric Infra Red Heater.  These use halogen quartz bulb elements - which act like a light and heat the object the light shines on, or a ceramic element which do not shine but heat the area they are pointed at directly.

There are other advantages to these heaters - for example they do not stir the air up, there is no air flow out of them, they are fume free and safe. 

One thing you do have to pay attention to is the fact they effectively pour cumalitive heat into an object and shouldn't be left unattended as whatever they are heating will eventually get very hot indeed, and possibly melt or combust.  They are an excellent choice for a portable heater in the right situation, but like all heaters, care has to be taken that they are used in a safe and sensible way.

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