Eden Pure Heaters

[Jim Nilsen]

Very mixed reviews out there including on amazon.com. I don't see how any one electric heater can be significantly better than another. There are only so many BTU's that can be had from a given amount of electricity. Sure, they may be more efficient than a gas furnace but it's hard to understand how it can be significantly better than another electric heater. There is a bit of advertising hype here as near as I can tell. As far as Bob Vila goes I still laugh about seeing him doing some home improvement demonstrations on one of the morning news shows....

It is really something to think that I am heating the space I have with the equivilant of a blow dryer. The infra red bulbs super heat the air as it passes by in a large volume slowly. There seems to be a lot more heat transfer ratio than you ge tfrom other electric heaters. I have use them all an really prefer the oil radiant heaters because they are quiet and all the electricity is tranfered to BTU's, but the volume of air going by it is convectionary and can move a lot of air by it but not as well as the Eden pure seems to be doing. The heat is more even across the whole house.



I am still not sure about the cost being less for me than the natural gas but it is looking close if I am calculating the kilowatts the heater uses. At 10 cents a KWH it comes to $3.60 a day running at full power. I have used over $7 per day with gas including my garage which could be almost half of that. So it looks like it could be close. I am finding out what it cost to heat the garage right now along with all of the other appliances. I am doing the evaluation so I know where to spend the money the most to save the most.

I see more insulation in my future.