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I dont quite get the logic? as a heater, there is only a finite amount of heat actually produced, its just released to the atmosphere more slowly via the larger area but crucially, at a correspondinghly lower temperature than the more intense naked flame itself?
The mass of the Pots will take longer to heat up and release heat to the surrounding atmosphere. and take more time to cool which I could see might be bad thing if it gets knocks over, and tries to an “alien” impression melting a hole through the bigle!
As a space heater, I’d hazzard the convection current of a naked flame would be more intense than the geater area but lower temp pots? i.e they’d equal out, but with the overall benefit of more instant heat with the naked flame.
FWIW, I use the same candles as they are in a dish, and heats up pretty quickly in my experince.
I tried it both ways – this seems to do a better job of distributing the heat – you do get quite a woosh of air between the pots. try it both ways and if naked candles work well for you then no probs – forget the flower pots.The way i see it electric heaters used to have a single hot element and a reflector – now they have a fan or a box designed to shift the air. Talk to any heating engineer and he will tell you that radiators need to be the the right place to get the air moving and eradicate cold spots.
Best of luck
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I think the “trick” is that the heat from the candles doesn’t just shoot right up to the ceiling. If a candle is allowed to burn by itself the plume of hot gas will be very narrow and (absent any drafts) go straight up until it hits something (ceiling of a shed; overhead of a boat; etc.). But, with the flower pots absorbing much of the candles’ heat and then re-radiating it (mainly as IR?) it “feels” like much more heat is being produced.
The differences comes for the type of heat: convection and radiation.
Radiation does not need to heat the air of the room, it comes directly on the walls and your body, giving your body a sensation of temperature, even when the air is still coldest.
The pots convert the flame’s heat in radiation.
correct… in part
I think that the two flower pots and the hot gap between them keeps a good flow of warmed air going
a bit like the box on a convection heater
it seems to kill those cold spots pretty well
try it and see
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It is a brilliant idea, as long as it doesn’t all go in flames, well one will have to be absolutely stupid to allow it to go into flames, so with comes responsibility, and also watch out for any Carbon Monoxide gas build up, so a CO alarm is advised as a safety precaution against this lethal gas. For larger room use more candles, and I see why not and it would remove the chill from the room.
I have just set up 4 candles on light on a cake /bread airer, so the candles are lifted above the table surface and placed 3 posts (empty cans of small cat food tins ) and above it I have placed a frying pan to heat and radiate heat into space, I haven’t got clay flower pots and so I used what I think may work just as well, I placed this in my garden shed which is roughly 12 x 10 foot and about 8 foot high, and has lots of mass of items stored in, which means the mass has to absorb the heat before the room can heat up, so this experiment will be conducted over a continuous period of time for at least 2 to 3 days, and the temperature will be monitored closely, using remote thermometer that measures inside temperature and outside temperature.
Best of all you get free light with it!
