The electric space heaters tested at consumer reports use 1 500 watts to fully power.
Space heater electricity cost.
This is how much electricity your space heater uses in an hour.
Click calculate to find the energy consumption of a space heater using 1500.
Kw per hour x cost of a unit of electricity cost per hour to run your unit.
If you run your space heater for 10 hours in a day that s 1 5 daily which works out to be 67 5 a month.
Probably the most important number to know is the heaters power rating in watts.
Convection space heaters heat up a room by heating up the air most common convection space heaters will use around 1500 watts.
Electricity usage of a space heater.
Electric space heaters provide heat quickly and because they run on household electricity you never have to buy fuel for them.
Apply the formula 1 500 x 24 1 000 x 0 20 to determine the cost to run the space heater for a day.
If yours is 10 cents per kilowatt hour that s 15 cents per hour.
To calculate the cost of operating a 1500 watt infrared heater will require the electricity cost of your residential area.
Space heaters are portable electric devices used for heating up a single room or an area of the house.
You don t get this kind of convenience for free however and you.
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