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SPACE HEATING
You can use Heater Boards in a variety of ways to provide space heating for your home.
For example, you can use heater boards to heat air that is blown directly into the living spaces of the house. This is called direct solar air heating. Whenever the solar heated air is warmer than the house, the Heater Board will send heat into the house.
You can also use Heater Boards to indirectly heat your house. For example, if you have an unheated basement or crawl space beneath your house, you can blow solar heated air directly into the crawlspace or basement. The warm solar heated air will rise up to the heat the underside of the first floor. This is the simplest form of radiant floor heating and is one of the most comfortable and productive ways to use solar heat.
Another indirect use of solar heat is to use Heater Boards to provide solar heated air to the outside unit of a heat pump. Using this approach causes the heat pump to work more efficiently and produce more heat with less electricity.
If you have a boiler heating your house, you can use heater boards to preheat the air that the boiler pulls from the house to burn with fuel to heat water.
If you operate bathroom fans, clothes dryers, kitchen exhaust fans, fire places, gas, propane or oil water heaters, you can use your heater boards to preheat outside air that enters the house to feed these fans and fuel burning appliances.
Direct space heating
Warm solar heated air can be blown directly into the living spaces to individual rooms or to heat larger groups of rooms. The Heater Boards are set up to pull fresh outside air in at one end and discharge warm solar heated air at the other end. The Heater Board is designed to deliver air that is about 40 degrees F warmer than the outside air. On a 45 degree sunny day, the Heater Board will deliver air at 85 degrees. For many climates, Heater Boards will deliver warm air that is suitable for Direct space heating during much of the heating season.
However, there will be days in most climates when the outdoor temperatures are colder than 35 degrees, or there is a strong cold wind, or the skies are partly cloudy, when the heater board outlet temperature is below 75 degrees. In these conditions, most people will find the solar heated air is not adequate for direct space heating and will rely solely on their conventional heating system. Fortunately, solar heated air form the Heater Boards is still useful for a number Indirect Space heating applications that can produce significant savings on heating bills.
Indirect Space heating
The indirect space heating applications include:
Air radiant floor heating heat pump preheating Outdoor air preheating boiler air preheating garage heating workshop heating
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