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Recently it’s been brought to my attention a type of electric radiant heater, made by Radiant Systems, that mount on a wall up near the ceiling.http://www.radiantsystemsinc.com/inthehome/I was wondering how well they would work in a superinsulated house in a cold climate?

我知道几年前,天花板上的电辐射面板都风靡一时,但是持久性,维护和隔热性不佳的建筑物的耐加热问题存在问题。这些加热器在耐用性和维护方面的问题应该更少,购买和安装成本看起来很有吸引力,但是我想知道供暖不平吗?在隔热良好的房屋中,墙壁和家具都会加热,以便无论您身在何处,您都会感到相同的舒适度?

Does anyone have experience with this particular company, or can recommend any other company with a similar product?

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  1. GBA Editor
    马丁·霍拉迪(Martin Holladay)||#1

    Jack,
    是的,这些加热器在一座超悬式建筑物中工作。如果您的建筑物的空气泄漏水平较低,并且隔热水平很高,那么在漏水,绝缘建筑物中,热量分布的重要性不大。信封越好,提供热量的地方的重要性就越少。

    如果您想安装电阻加热器,则有很多选择,包括电阻底板单元,辐射天花板,辐射墙板和辐射垫,用于在瓷砖地板下使用。

    They all work, they are all relatively cheap to install, and they are all expensive to operate (unless you live in the Pacific Northwest or Manitoba) because electricity is an expensive fuel.

  2. 用户-600754||#2

    Jack-
    在超悬式房屋中,您可以将电辐射面板与低温迷你拆分热泵结合使用。在主要起居区和电辐射中使用热泵来平衡卧室的温度。

  3. Tucker2||#3

    我也对这些辐射单元与传统踢脚线的性能以及用于加热良好隔热且精心建造的房屋的辐射式和阻力概念感兴趣。

    As far as heating goes, I still believe that despite or in accordance with all the latest detail/material/labor intensive super insulated wall systems and expensive mechanicals that the best way to build and live “green” in a home is to a build small and simple structure and for the occupants to put an extra layer of clothes on instead of turning up the heat on the latest and greatest “efficient” heat source….but obviously it is important to design and build an adequate heat source.

    Of course appropriate heat sources should be considered by availability and price in a given area. In my area electric runs about 9 cents a KWH and customers can often harvest their own fire wood (sometimes the trees harvested during the site work can heat the home for years). If homeowners are lazy or physically unable to do the work themselves they can buy a cord of cherry, beech and/or oak for about $140 - $180 and that is split delivered and stacked. We are at about 7000 HDD and the local economic demographics mandate a tight budget. So a wood burning heat source and electric baseboards for secondary sources are often utilized in conjunction with passive solar.

    We often run into the issue of furniture placement and clearances with the baseboard units in these small houses. These radiant units would provide a great way to get the heat source away from the furniture and floor space. These units seem like they would be a good answer, although I have never seen or felt one in action. Do these units provide a good comfortable heat source in comparison to traditional baseboards? Is there any truth/science behind this company's assertion that that these systems are more efficient than baseboards or is it just an assertion that one can run a radiant system at a lower temp then resistance and be just as comfortable? Does anyone have any first hand experience with one of these units?

  4. GBA Editor
    马丁·霍拉迪(Martin Holladay)||#4

    Joseph,
    Q. "Is there any truth/science behind this company's assertion that that these systems are more efficient than baseboards"

    A. No. A BTU is a BTU. All electric resistance heaters have exactly the same efficiency -- namely 100%.

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