Need help picking out a heating solution for the winter.
Need help picking out a heating solution for the winter.
Long story short I need to heat my home with electric heaters this year, minisplits and hvac are way out of my budget. I’d like some help picking a solution.
Choice A: Micro heat pumps
Choice B: Multiple PTC Fast Heating Ceramic Heater
https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B099YYWNM9
Been coming up short on solutions so if you have a third option I'd be glad to hear it.
They make window heat pump units now. Might work as a cheap mini split alt.
https://www.google.com/search?q=window+heat+pump&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&hl=en-us&client=safari
If you pay for electricity, make sure you include an estimate for the electricity cost in your cost calculations. A resistive heater like choice b will be much cheaper to buy, but will be much more expensive over time. Heat pumps use about 3x less energy.
Info that could help others help you:
House or flat?
Renting or owning?
How large an area do you need to heat?
How many rooms?Temperature and savings:
Where I live they say that a house with people living in it should be at least 16°C (~60°F) to handle the moisture we generate.
Humans should have at least 18°C (64°F), preferably 20°C (68°F).
That means that you could close doors and let unoccupied rooms have lower temperature than the rooms you use.
If you're stuck with space heaters then you'll save quite a lot that way.I live in America, A safe estimate would be 1000 sqft after halfing the house to 2 bedrooms and a bathroom for the winter, I live an area that gets mild winter weather but can hit near 0 degrees F for weeks at a time,, we’re used to running the heat at 64F, owned house(for the sake of simplification)
A small fire in the house will keep it warm for as long as the house still stands
This is fine.
mine XMR on a few computers
I'm not a fan of crypto but between resistive heating which gives no return, and mining heat which gives unprofitable return, it makes more sense to get your heating from mining if you already have the computer for it. The only question is whether it's financially better than a heat pump short term.
And of course this only really works for one room so it's not a complete solution.
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You definitely want to look at the economics and see if there's some way to do a mini split. It will save you a lot on electric, and depending on the climate you're in, it could pay for itself by February.
I'm told heated electric carpets are dope, but they aren't common where I live so I've never tried one out.
Where do you live and what's your ideal temperature?