Reasons Why Electric Heating Prevails Over Other Heating Methods by Jamie SimpsonWhat makes electric radiators so successful?The real ‘techie’ answer lies in the advance of materials, tolerances, technology and even more so, the sophisticated electronics, not just one single item but all of them coming together to provide maximum comfort using minimum energy. Radiator Body (Aluminium)Traditional ‘wet’ gas systems use steel. No question therefore that ‘injection moulded’ aluminium is a far superior conductor of heat, which is why your car engine is made of aluminium. So, why is that? Well, to quickly get rid of that heat. Even the purity of that Aluminium plays a part. So what better than a material that heats quickly but also dissipates that heat into the room incredibly quickly, resulting in maximum comfort and minimum energy. So do not be fooled by much lesser materials steel or extruded rather than injected aluminium. Heating Elements’State of the art’ twin heating elements are moulded into the aluminium body (top and bottom), again providing an incredibly even distribution of heat across the body. Once again to rapidly pass heat and more importantly ‘radiated’ heat into the room. This ‘radiated’ heat plays a huge part in the ultimate – Your comfort. The entire process can then be taken to another level. Ceramic (volcanic) materials can also form part of the internal body, these increase the dynamics of taking electricity and rapidly heating the room to further improve your comfort. Control Accurate thermostats play an enormous part, ensuring the device does not over heat or under heat the room, wasting energy, sacrificing comfort as would lesser components. Microchips such as we all use in our cars (but lower tech) ensure optimisation of the electric consumption. The ability to control each room (i.e. each radiator) with multi time, multi temperature should not be underestimated. At last, an intelligent way to heat your home. Many in the UK subscribe to “switch on switch off”, constantly allowing the room to heat up and then subsequently to drop to cold only to re heat again at a later time using maximum energy each time. This is a needless waste, the Europeans would at the point of switching off simply programme the temperature to drop by about 4 degrees and request it to rise again at the point of switching on. Maintaining a constant temperature means maximum comfort and minimum energy. What makes a comfortable heat? The vast majority of electric products (storage, cheap panel and convector heaters) convect heat, and yes heat does rise. However, convection means heat rising and setting up a warm air current around the room. Sadly storage, cheap panel and convector heaters convect that heat much too fiercely (burning the air, hence carbon deposits) resulting in the air being far too dry uncomfortable and excessive amounts of heat on the ceiling and too little at your feet, resulting in ‘cold feet syndrome’. A traditional gas ‘wet’ system provides radiated heat, this means the surface of the radiator will warm the air as it comes into contact with it and sends that into the room providing an all round comfortable heat, yes a small amount will rise but not as excessively as if it had been heavily convected.Find out more about electric heating.Article Source: eArticlesOnline.com