2000W Outdoor Patio Heater - Black $46.25 DELIVERED! (Deals Direct)

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  berger on 15/07/2013 - 06:51

  +1

  These are great for your power bill. You will see it jump up heaps :-(

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    pmupsinep on 15/07/2013 - 08:39

    Are you sure? Lets say you hold 5 events in 3 months. And you run this heater for 6 hours each time. That's 30 hours of runtime x $0.25/kWh x 2 = quarterly bill increase of 15 bucks.

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      cameldownunder on 15/07/2013 - 09:27

      if you hold 5 events in 3 month, you don't need this

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  CI on 15/07/2013 - 07:13

  -3

  It's much wiser to pay $50 extra and get a gas bottled heater
  This is a terrible investment

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    killergreely on 15/07/2013 - 08:08

    +2

    Not really, a gas heater can use a couple of kilos an hour on high. Leave it on past midnight and you'll use a 9kg bottle in one night easily, which is around $20-30 to refill.

    One of these will run for several nights, or more, for the same expenditure in electricity.

    Gas heaters will, however, heat a greater area to a higher temperature. Stil, these electric ones are more economical overall, moreso if you have solar pv.

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      SteveBuscemi on 15/07/2013 - 08:44

      Exactly. 2000W at ~26c/kwH, is what, $5.20 to run it for 10 hours?

      My gas patio heater runs for about 10 hours on a 9kg bottle, and that's a lot more than 5 bucks to fill or replace.

      There may be other downsides to this electric heater, such as heating efficiency or the need to run a power cord but it's certainly not expensive to run.

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        cameldownunder on 15/07/2013 - 09:29

        If you have not used any electricity that day, this might push you in the higher bracket of costs

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    DeWalt on 15/07/2013 - 08:13

    Can you give me a link? A quick search seems to contradict you,
    http://www.businessspectator.com.au/article/2012/10/4/smart-…

    I've not looked at this before, so I may be missing something.

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      berger on 15/07/2013 - 08:17

      that report has nothing to do with bottled gas, which is, around 3-5x the price of mains.

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    berger on 15/07/2013 - 08:15

    your wise suggestion is not very good. paid and used a gas patio heater? refilled bottles?

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  PlasticSpaceman on 15/07/2013 - 10:20

  I looked at this a while back - my initial knee jerk reaction was that obviously the gas heaters were significantly cheaper to run. As with all things though, it can be worthwhile going through the figures…. so a 9kg gas bottle costs $21.85 to do a 'swap' at Bunnings (http://www.bunnings.com.au/services_gas-swap.aspx)

  A typical gas heater will run for up to 12 hours on one 9kg bottle. Let's say that the gas heater is pumping out 40Mj, then it is costing $0.05 per Mj per hour to run (21.85/12/40)

  The electric heater is sucking up 2kW per hour, so if 1kWh=3.6Mj then if you assume that you have a time of use power bill and normally would only run it on the weekends, then (for me) that would mean under $0.12 per kWh or approximately $0.03 per Mj per hour. Run it during peak and for me that means $0.20 per kWh so $0.06 per Mj per hour.

  Yes there are a lot of guesstimates above but basically, for the equivalent amount of heat and depending on your power supply costs, it may be cheaper when you run the electric heater during off peak. In peak times, it may cost a little more. Whatever the case, neither would appear to be significantly cheaper to run than the other so I'd pick a heater that suits your requirements eg it's also a lot more convenient compared to a gas system you have to get refilled, but you get a lot more heat out of a gas heater and you don't need a power point…… but it's concentrated in one area whilst you could have a number of these electric jobs covering a wider space more evenly.

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    samfisher5986 on 15/07/2013 - 10:41

    Don't forget convenience and time saved with an electric heater.

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      alvian on 15/07/2013 - 12:34

      Don't forget when you and your mates are half drunk at the weekend BBQ, you might trip on the bloody long electrical extension cord and cause an accident.

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  Bob81 on 15/07/2013 - 10:50

  We have one of these at work and they're terrible.

  The amount of heat they produce is almost non-existent compared to their gas patio heater cousins.

  You have to be standing directly under it and only then does your head starts to feel a bit warm.

  Don't waste your money on these… you'll be disappointed.

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  young_dazza on 15/07/2013 - 17:41

  Another ting to consider is how safe are these compared to the gas cylinder ones? Gas could leak and explode, but these look a bit top-heavy and could possibly fall onto someone giving them a very nasty burn. Maybe fixed heaters on your patio would be the safest way to go…