[TowerTalk] Shack Heater

[Jim Brown]

Hi Rick,

I've had the $15 passive radiators for years. They only work by 
convection, and it takes a LONG time to make the operating position warm 
because it's heating the entire room, especially the high ceilings in my 
house and shack. It's expensive to heat all of that volume, and I only 
need it warm by me. This unit does that VERY quickly (in a few minutes), 
after which I can stop buying more joules from PG&E.

The fan in this particular unit is fairly quiet, at least as quiet as my 
KPA1500 on position 1. And any time I'm operating, I'm wearing 
headphones, so stuff that's this quiet doesn't matter.

73, Jim K9YC

  On 10/7/2019
6:14 PM, Richard (Rick) Karlquist wrote:
> A contrarian view.  I don't like the fan type for two reasons:
> 
> 1.  The noise of the fan is more acoustical QRM that I don't need.
> 
> 2.  The radiative type of heater is actually faster in terms of 
> keeping the operator warm.  I find it works quite well by placing it
> under the operating desk and "aiming" it at the operating chair. If
> necessary an additional desktop "dish" type heater can be added as a
> hand warmer.  Also without a fan.
> 
> In terms of heating the room is concerned, it is not clear to me that
> a fan heater is faster there either.  My radiative heaters warm up in
> about 10 seconds.  After that, every watt in is quickly radiated to the room