Thinking about buying this heater for my 2 car garage... what do you guys think?
http://www.heater-home.com/product/L5600.aspx

My garage is about 500 square feet and right now in the winter it's stays around 15 - 20 degrees F.. very cold... I live in Northern NJ..

you know how much this heater would cost to run too?

Thanks

 

It's a good heater and should serve your needs. I would not reccomend leaving it unattended but if you do I would put a smoke detector in there with it and make sure you can hear it.

As for operating cost I may be wrong but I think you take the KW and multiply it by what the electric company charges you and that's approx what it will cost per minute. Input: 240/208V, 23.3/18.9A (5.6kW/3.9kW).

 

you mean what it will cost per HOUR? I think all these ratings are Kilowatts per HOUR not minute... but I could be wrong...

yeah I was comparing going with this electric heater versus a vented propane wall mounted unit? after reading things on here, I have ruled out the vent free units entirely...

My concerns with this electic Dayton heater are:

1.) Is Dayton a good name and do they make good long lasting products?

2.) Do electric heaters like this lose there btu output over time? meaning like after a year or two does the heater start putting out less and less btu's?

3.) Are these heaters designed to be ran 24/7 if need be?

4.) Where is the best place to put one of these heaters in a 2 car garage for best heating efficiency?

Thanks

ps.. I agree with ANY heater in the garage to put a smoke detector in there... maybe even a carbon monoxide detector too..

 

I have not use that heater. But Grainger company that I buy from has all kind of Dayton "stuff" from motors to who knows what and furnaces. Have use a lot of things made by them and it has all been good. You say you have LP there. We sell all the old furnaces to guys like you to put in the garage there. They work very good big blower fast recovery you vent them and like code here keep the flame off the floor by 2ft.

ED

 

Kilowatts is already a rate of energy usage. Terms such as "kilowatts per hour" or "kilowatts per minutes" are meaningless. The power company charges for kilowatt-hours, not kilowatts. One KWH is one kilowatt used for one hour.

 

Thanks John. I knew I was off on that, all my calcs are in Excell and I haven't had any time at all to check any formulas.

So if they have the 5.6 kw heater and the utility company charged .06 per/kwh wouldn't it go,

5.6 *.06 = 0.336 cents per hour of use?

 

yeah but the specs of the heater say: Input: 240/208V, 23.3/18.9A (5.6kW/3.9kW)

does that mean it uses 5.6 kilo watts of electric for 1 continuous hour of use?

so if you only had it running for 30 minutes, it would really only use 2.8 kilo watts of electric? (5.6 / 2)