Lastly, your comment with regards to our ability to deliver this product. As stated in the campaign page, we already have working models and a production line that is producing 2000 units per month, we only came to Kickstarter, to raise the capital to expand our production process and make the product more widely available to the general public around the world.
QuoteLastly, your comment with regards to our ability to deliver this product. As stated in the campaign page, we already have working models and a production line that is producing 2000 units per month, we only came to Kickstarter, to raise the capital to expand our production process and make the product more widely available to the general public around the world.
They are already making 2000 units a month!
Yet they, by their own admission in the comments and updates are only now doing actual room testing and are in the process of sending it out to independent test houses
For infrared heaters, the room’s volume is not relevant, but the actual area of the enclosure. Usually, this includes the four walls, floor and ceiling. To simplify your calculation, we limit the whole thing to the base surface, i.e. the size of the room. To do this, you need the length and width of the room. Suppose the room is 6 metres x 5 metres, that equates a room size of 30 m². These 30 m² of floor space are now multiplied with an *output value of 75 Watt per m² (up to 2.60 m height). Amounts to: 30m² x 75 Watt/m² = 2250 Watt.Therefore, you need a heating capacity of 2250 Watt. You can now choose these as either 2 x 900 Watt + 1 x 450 Watt = 2250 Watt or as 2 x 1200 Watt = 2400 Watt.Higher wattage does not mean that more power is consumed. On the contrary, this rather results in faster heating, so that the infrared heater is shut off earlier.Please note that this output figure of 75 Watt/m² was calculated based on a ceiling height of up to 2.60m. Should the room be higher, add an additional output value of 5 Watt/m² per 5 cm. At a ceiling height of 3 metres, that would equate an additional 40 Watt. The result would be an *output level of 115 Watt/m². Multiplied with the floor area, 30 m² in this example, this amounts to: 30 m² x 115 Watt/m² = 3450 Watt.Depending on the angles and corners of the room, you can now choose your matching heating panels. Thus a room in an L-shape requires at least 2 panels as a single panel’s rays would not reach the entire space. This can be clearly seen by shining a torch from a corner in the room. For not all walls are illuminated. Light is a ray after all and radiation heat works the same way. Using a second torch, you can now light up the entire room.Please note the impact radius of 3.50 meters. A torch loses its brightness the further away it is from the illuminated object. Infrared rays lose their intensity at a range of around 3-4 meters resulting in long heating periods.For rooms that are subject to greater humidity, such as bathrooms, for example, simply calculate twice the dimensions. That way, you will experience your baths like a swim in the sea. You won't freeze despite having wet skin. That is the advantage of infrared heating.
So yeah, you're only going to need at least 5 of the large Solus panels for the average sized living room.
But, but, graphene!
So yeah, you're only going to need at least 5 of the large Solus panels for the average sized living room.But, but, graphene!
In this case: Yes, electric heaters are more efficient in converting electric energy into heat radiation than heating water -> pumping water through a pipe system -> transfering heat from water filled radiators to the surrounding air. Of course they are comparing apples and pears...
did you go over the safety aspect of having a cool artsy looking glass panel heated to 100c on a bench top or wall?
like i said thats going to burn small children and animals
It's like hanging a fucking griddle in your living room ?? who does that? did people lose their senses since the 1970's because of apple (they used to have cages on these things to mitigate burns and surface area of burns. Even for a new life form that thermal air currents and red hotness of the heating elements in a conventional heater seems at least suspicious or interesting enough to slow down (usually scary unless someone is really out there). This is like a booby trap.
I don't know about Australia, but in the US heating with gas is typically far cheaper than heating with electricity. (Unless you've got electricity from your own solar/wind setup that is going to waste.)
My 1950's era 20,000 BTU natural gas top-vent wall heater is cheaper to use than any electric heating solution.
can a piece of cast iron fall off the wall because someone decided to hang it on sheet rock hooks (that are not even installed properly) or fall on you because its positioned on a wobbly table? People probably won't even look for studs. It will prob be mounted on a painting string.
Those things weigh like 200 LB plus. IT's a different story. Those things kids avoid because it even look slike you will get hurt if you run next to it and bump into it because of kinetic energy alone (kids seem to realize this). Stoves just look dangerous. And they look scary (think home alone basement scene where he is always scared of the furnace).
This thing is small, quiet, does not smell, etc. And it can fall on you because its low mass.
I was around one of those too. I spent some time in a very very very ancient house when I was young in europe. But its different then a thin cool looking object (polished metal, glass, etc) being roaring hot.
Kid's already get hurt by TV's falling on them. But now imagine a TV @ 100C+.
For example, consider a coil of wire, heated by current passing through it. Now put that coil of wire in a vacuum effectively stopping convection and conduction, what happens to the wire? The answer is, it probably melts! If you put 100W of electrical energy in, the resistance of that wire turns that into 100 watts of heat, and if that heat cannot escape as fast as it is being put in, the temperature of the wire will climb, eventually till it melts. This is because thermal transfer is driven by the thermal impedance AND the difference in temperature. This should be obvious!