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RingGrip Fan Heater 2000W $4.75, Ceramic 1500W $7.50 @ The Reject Shop All Stores

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RingGrip Fan Heater 2000W $4.75, Ceramic 1500W $7.50 @ The Reject Shop All Stores
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King Tightarse on 15/09/2020 - 12:49 rejectshop.com.au (516 clicks)
Last edited 15/09/2020 - 14:32 by 2 other users

Ring-Grip Fan heaters are now marked down nice and cheap in-store at the Reject Shop.
The one in the title is only $4.75 (was $17) but there is also a better ceramic one for $7.50 (was $30) I saw decent sized stacks of both types this morning at Kyneton, Vic.
OzBargain logic says to buy your air conditioners in winter and your heaters in summer or spring, in this case.
Yes, these are definitely not the most efficient way to heat a room but sometimes a fan heater is the best solution. Will help dry out a damp area for example.

Please note:
1/ This is an in-store only price and is the same price on their system, across all their stores, however no idea about other stores' stock levels.
2/ The Reject Shop site shows the full price and does not have the ceramic version listed.

Ceramic version: https://files.ozbargain.com.au/upload/14594/82781/img_202009…
Receipt for ceramic version $7.50 https://files.ozbargain.com.au/upload/14594/82782/img_202009…

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  • b2dz on 15/09/2020 - 12:51

    Says $17 for me?

    • Sertacv2 on 15/09/2020 - 12:55
      +1

      same for me. might be a in-store price but i wouldn't know, I'm in victoristan

    • King Tightarse on 15/09/2020 - 12:56

      Yes, its marked down in store (Vic) but they told me its the same price Australia wide

  • scrimshaw on 15/09/2020 - 12:56
    +1

    Not seeing $4.75 price.

  • Yanoflies on 15/09/2020 - 13:15

    I paid $55 on eBay for one a few weeks back because all the stores are sold out around me.

  • mysterytal on 15/09/2020 - 13:41
    -2

    "Yes, these are definitely not the most efficient way to heat a room."

    It's 100% efficient at turning electricity into heat.

    • darshu on 15/09/2020 - 13:48

      Not really. Some electricity is spent on the fan. Reverse cycle heating can absorb heat from the environment, therefore, the efficiency is higher than 100%

    • placard on 15/09/2020 - 13:53

      Yes, but that's not as efficient as a Reverse Cycle split system which can be up to 700% efficient - in other words there are now units with COP values of 6-7 - which means for one unit of electricity they produce 6-7 units of heat. Much better than the 1 to 1 ratio of a fan heater.

      • Travelbug on 15/09/2020 - 14:10
        -1

        You lost me at "good afternoon"

        • placard on 15/09/2020 - 14:15

          ?

          • Travelbug on 15/09/2020 - 14:19
            +1

            @placard: Read "placards" treatise on biophysics pathology and the inverse universe of energy co-efficients and tell me what you understand after "good afternoon students"

      • Polypterus on 15/09/2020 - 14:46

        How do these compare to the not-so-efficient fin oil-heaters in a room? My 1000w takes a long 1 hour to warm up the room, and then cycles on and off after that to maintain the heat that i need. Wonder if the more-efficient reverse cycle systems (at say 3.5kw/hr) will save me money by being in the standby mode much longer (because, by being more powerful, it takes less time to achieve the warmth i need, and by being 700% more efficient, it will take 1/7th of the standard time it would have required. So instead of 1 hour @ 1000w to initially heat up the room, it might take 17 minutes @ 3500w just purely by being more powerful, and because of its 700% efficiency, it might take 1/7th of that time (e.g 3 minutes) and then in theory it should be in standby mode for a total of 57 minutes over that 1st hour. And for the on-off cycle that my 1000w does, say 50% on and 50% off, i imagine the reverse cycle will be powering on for (8.5 minutes for being 3.5x more powerful, and for being 700% more efficient, it should take only 1.5 minutes in that hour to maintain the heat).

        Is this how efficiency works?

        • Travelbug on 15/09/2020 - 14:51
          -1

          Well why didn't you all just say this from the beginning.

        • placard on 15/09/2020 - 14:52
          +1

          An oil heater is no more/less efficient than a fan heater. It converts one unit of power to one unit of heat. The benefit of an oil heater is gentle heating and silent, but it is no more efficient than a fan heater. Whilst a fan heater only produces heat when it's on, an oil heater 'smooths' the heat as the oil heater cycles on and off. There is no heat for 20 minutes whilst it heats the oil, then it cycles on/off as the oil loses heat, then as you turn it off, there's some residual heat as the oil cools down (effectively cancelling out the oil warming time when it's first turned off - ie no 'free' energy).

          Also to note that these split system A/Cs are advertised at their rated output - ie 3.5Kw. That doesn't mean they consume this much power. As they produce 5-7 times the amount of heat as power input, they use a lot less than a plug in heater.

          For example, when my split system is simply maintaining temp in a room, the inverter compressor means it can ramp down so might be only pulling 300-400 watts, if that, compared to 1000-2000 for a fan heater.Just received the bill for the last three months for electricity - running 2 split systems almost 24/7 over the cold Melbourne winter, the bill was only $400.

          Split systems will always be way cheaper to run than fan heaters or oil heaters etc.

  • limucat on 15/09/2020 - 14:17

    Greensborough VIC store sold out

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