It may come as a shock to you readers, but not all heaters look like the ones you have in your home, whether you have a radiator or a space heater or a fireplace. In fact, there are a number of applications that require what is known as an immersion heater to heat up various liquids without Continue reading
Ceramic Heaters Photo Courtesy of Hotwatt, Inc.
My roommate has an impressively warm space heater that she grudgingly shares with me while watching TV in our very chilly living room. Nobody told me that being grown up meant freezing in your own home if you didn’t want to pay VERY high heating bills during the winter! However, thanks to my roomie and her space heater, which happens to be made with ceramic elements, I am surviving. Continue reading
Band Heater Photo Courtesy of Thermal Devices.
Electric blankets are one of my favorite items during the winter months, particularly since I moved into my lovely hardwood, vaulted ceiling apartment that has terrible insulation. Curling up in bed at night within the folds of my heated blanket is the highlight of a chilly day, and it can be very Continue reading
Electric Heaters Photos Courtesy of Watlow Electric Manufacturing.
You would be amazed to discover how many different types of electric heaters affect your daily life or help to produce products you use on a daily basis. Within the residential context, which is where most individuals will immediately recognize the positive traits of electric heaters, there are numerous styles that are used. Air heaters are often used for furnaces, which are able to Continue reading
Circulation Heaters Photos Courtesy of Chromalox.
The needle in the haystack metaphor is often used as a gentle way to tell someone that whatever they are waiting for or searching for is probably not going to come or be found. It’s all about the odds, and the odds don’t look good when something as small and Continue reading
Cartridge is a popular word in the industrial arena, used to describe an electronic part within cassette tapes, a gun powder container that is inserted into a gun, a removable unit within a computer system as well as being Continue reading
Industrial drums are more common then the smaller versions used in domestic settings, which I am familiar with. However, the drum heaters that are able to heat whatever substance is inside a drum barrel, no matter how big or small, is essentially the same. The drum heaters that I have used and appreciated are crock pots and Continue reading
Heating systems do not always look the way one would assume they should look. Personally, I have always thought that electric heaters looked like giant furnaces in the basement of a house or commercial building unless it was a small portable space heater, like most ceramic heaters. However, there is a much greater variety of Continue reading
Every production, whether it is a TV show, a movie or a play, has a star character around which the story circulates and builds to become something spectacular. The character may not always seem like a star, but they are vital to the production none the less. Such a star must be a part of the beginning, middle and Continue reading
I am a huge fan of duct heaters for a couple reasons. The first is obvious, that it keeps whatever space I am in at a comfortable temperature, one I can change to suit me precisely when I am in my own home or enjoy when in the mall or Continue reading