Thinking about space heaters?

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Problem in charging of Oxygen ions, human can breathe only with negative charged ions. All of these heaters with open heated elements make negative charge to neutral. Its very important, because neutral ion of Oxygen is useless for breathing.

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And while I’m sure everyone here already knows this, I feel compelled to say that breathing ionized oxygen (positively or negatively charged), or the ozone that would be produced by ionization, is a terrible idea. Neutral oxygen is just what you want.

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This is what I suggest. A couple of apartments ago, the “permanently installed heating system” in my unit was a gas fireplace in the bedroom. I was uncomfortable leaving that on while I was sleeping - and of course the other rooms had no heat, so I used an oil filled space heater and that thing is the bomb. It takes a little longer to get up to heat, but once it does, there’s no beating it.

Might be a little more expensive up front (say maybe $40?), but no open heating element is also a bonus.

I’ve got a whole range of different space heaters to help out at my house with very expensive and inefficient electric ceiling heat. The radiant kind will heat up very quickly whatever they’re pointed at, but they’re not great for heating a room. The electric heaters with fans are better for quicker heating, and depending on the size of the room might be all you need. The oil filled heaters are really good for even, comfortable room heating. They are slow to warm up the room, but all the ones I’ve see have thermostats and two power levels, so once the room is up to temp they don’t have to run much. I keep a bucket in the corner where I put all the dead oxygen.

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Simply not true. Oxygen depletion is unrelated any color they emit.

All electric radiant space heaters don’t effect oxygen levels. They can glow orange all they want or not. They can glow white also, that is a electric light bulb.

The only kind that deplete oxygen is those which burn fuel, typically that means propane and kerosene, and are not vented to the outside. No electric heater falls into this category.

May I offer the ion believers some homeopathic medicine? We have very good prices due to a shortage from our suppliers.

I suppose, but would it do any good? Could they do anything about it without booting me out to do major renovation? My decor is already severely behind the times compared to the rest of the complex; a few years back, the management was prepared to kick me out so they could renovate, and only a change in ownership stopped them.

I fix most everything that troubles my tenant. He is great, a medical discharge from the Army with a guaranteed income who cleans the place like he was in basic training. The previous tenant, the granddaughter of my Mother’s friend was a disaster.

Yes, I’m not worried about willingness , but practicality.

I think you should probably report this to your landlord. In my jurisdiction, at least, landlords are legally required to provide a means of heating that keeps the interior temperature at least 68 degrees, or they will face a citation by the county. And I don’t think this is a particularly uncommon regulation, though the specified temperature may vary. If I called the management office and told them my heat was crapping out and it was 50 degrees inside, like you wrote in your OP, I would have emergency maintenance at my door even if it was the middle of the night. They do not mess around with heat issues.

I’m not saying this because I think you should get your landlord in trouble with the housing authority, but because you might not be the only tenant with this issue (present or future) and one of them might not be so charitable and tolerant. I think your landlord would like to know about this so he can have it fixed.

Pretty much any cheap space heater will work. The tip over feature is nice. I had one that kept a small 12x12 room close to 80 degrees all winter.

If your radiator is simply not big enough for the room, and is hot water, or steam heat you may be able to use a fan blowing additional air over it to extract more heat from it, that would be much cheaper then a space heater.

I’m not at all sure that a space heater is remotely feasible. Space is really big, and even giant hydrogen fusion reactions don’t heat much of it. Hell, you can make everything in the entire universe explode at the same time and you’ll get a measly 2.7 kelvins out of it.

What?

Mine sit on the floor vents and hog all the heat.

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I have a Presto Heat Dish that I just love. It shoots out such a lovely warm stream of air. It has a tip feature that has a loud, annoying alarm (you have to remember to turn the heater off if you want to move it even a few inches) and a footlight, too. It does such a good job that I’ve never had to put it up on High. Medium works just fine for me, even when I lived in an older drafty building, it was enough.

I don’t like the wall heater in my new bedroom. It does warm the room just fine but its fan blows right on my back when I’m at my computer, which feels cool instead of warm. So I use my space heater instead.

Costco sells very nearly the same heater for around 40 bucks. Our Costco usually has one set up and running throughout the winter. You can feel that thing clear across their wide, drafty aisle.

My brag, though, is that I got mine at a thrift store for nine bucks in the middle of summer. :slight_smile: