Heater Time

Okay, so here is the heater I use for my workshop, which is a Dr. Heater DR966 240-volt heater. It has a 3000 watt setting and a 6000 watt setting. To hear more from me about this heater, please watch my other video about heating a workshop. The workshop space I’m heating is about 1900 cubic foot of space and I’m measuring heat in Fahrenheit. When I first started using this heater I still had a poorly insulated, overhead garage door and when it was below freezing temps outside the temp in the workshop would get down to 40 degrees, sometimes a little lower than that. I now have a much better, insulated hinged door system for my garage workshop and now it only gets down to about 50-52 degrees in here. That may not sound like much but that’s still a pretty good improvement. That means I don’t have to heat the shop by another 10 degrees. So what I want to show in this video is how long it takes to heat my workshop to 60 degrees and then to 70 degrees using this heater. Normally I direct the heater a little more towards the center of the workshop, but for this video I’m directing it only across the width of the workshop from its current position. So the heat source is not pointed directly towards the thermostat I’m using, which is located near the ceiling at the center of my workshop. As you can see here I’m starting off with the workshop at about 51 degrees and I set the heater at 6000 watts and full blast. It took only about 15 minutes to heat my workshop to 60 degrees. That’s a comfortable working temperature and if you’re doing a lot of heavy lifting or hand tool work, that may be about where you want it so you don’t get over heated yourself. However, it took about another 45 minutes to heat my workshop another 10 degrees, from 61 degrees to about 71 degrees. Honestly I don’t understand the physics of heat exchange, so I have no idea why it took three times longer to heat the shop only another 10 degrees. If you have any ideas why this is, then please offer your friendly comments below! I hope this gives you an idea of how well you can heat up your given workshop space using a 240v, 6000 watt heater like this one. Thanks for watching and please like and subscribe! Have a great day! Gold Rush by Kevin MacLeod is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution license (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) Source: http://incompetech.com/music/royalty-free/index.html?isrc=USUAN1100217 Artist: http://incompetech.com/