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Modern Storage Heaters. Is this true?

"One of the biggest issues with traditional storage heaters is the amount of heat lost before use. This leads to an insufficient amount of heat left at the point of intended use. Savit have overcome this issue by wrapping Aerogel, one of the best insulators available, around the core to prevent heat loss. The heat brick's shape, size and materials have also been redesigned to better retain heat. The fan has now been made larger which allows it to run quieter and at half the speed whilst providing the same level of output.

By heating the room in two ways, the majority of heat is released using the built-in fan that pushes heated air out from the grille at the bottom of the heater. A small amount of heat is dispersed through natural convection and radiation from the heater's case. With the amount of energy released through the heater's case significantly reduced, the surface temperature is kept low and retains as much heat as possible until the heater is in active use."

B. Gullible, Sevenoaks. Kent.

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  • There's some logic in there I think (if perhaps slightly obscured by marketing speak) - certainly the old storage heaters of my youth that ran hot from early morning to mid-afternoon regardless how much heat the room actually needed (depending on the weather etc) were woefully inefficient overall despite electrical resistive heating bit being 100% efficient of itself. A move to better insulated heater with a fan to extract the heat when wanted was a significant improvement (first introduced many decades ago now). The latest storage heaters (LOT 20) now employ a whole raft of  time, weather and environment compensation techniques to try and squeeze the last few percent efficiency gains out of them.

       - Andy.

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  • There's some logic in there I think (if perhaps slightly obscured by marketing speak) - certainly the old storage heaters of my youth that ran hot from early morning to mid-afternoon regardless how much heat the room actually needed (depending on the weather etc) were woefully inefficient overall despite electrical resistive heating bit being 100% efficient of itself. A move to better insulated heater with a fan to extract the heat when wanted was a significant improvement (first introduced many decades ago now). The latest storage heaters (LOT 20) now employ a whole raft of  time, weather and environment compensation techniques to try and squeeze the last few percent efficiency gains out of them.

       - Andy.

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