CatherinaBeaudoin206
Infrared heaters are heaters that warm up objects rather than the air around them. All sorts of things that you are warmer faster.
Infrared heaters use infrared light as a method of heating. The reason is that light travels in wavelengths. The sun emits infrared light as well as ultraviolet light. These two sources produce heat or are in essence actual heat. Infrared light accounts for nearly half of the heat emitted through the sun. Infrared heaters produce the same type of light.
The key behind this heating mechanism is the fact that by the use of infrared wavelengths, they travel or beam through objects warming them considerably faster than the usual traditional heater. The reason is that a traditional heater merely heats the environment around objects as opposed to the object itself.
The body's temperature at any time is usually around 98.6. Naturally, when the temperature from the air around the body does not sustain the body's temperature, your body starts shivering in an effort to create more heat from inside.
Also, colder air means dryer air because of less moisture. Less moisture in the air means less moisture onto the skin allowing heat to leave the body. Colder air therefore causes your body to cool off more quickly. This is why people feel hotter in humid weather--their body heat can't be released from the body properly. Your body, in cold conditions, needs to heat itself.
It's not the standard heater that actually heats up the body. There is a certain source of convection of warmth in the air towards the skin, but the process is slow because the heat penetrates layer by layer and in to the muscles. Heat within the body dissipates quickly to efficiently heat within this method. Infrared wavelengths penetrate organic substances, just like your body, providing a far more effective flame.
Instead of feeling intense heat on the outside of your body slowly working its way in having a traditional heater, you are feeling comfortable at first glance of your body while feeling warm insidewithin all the body with infrared heaters.
Generally people know that heat rises, but not so with infrared heaters. This is because the infrared light waves travel and reflect off of surfaces, including moisture within the air, keeping a regular "feel" throughout the room. When it comes to using a traditional heater, the new air rises towards the ceiling causing cold air to flow downwards.
Additionally, heat quickly dissipates in the house. The traditional heater keeps warming up the environment, it rises, simultaneously causing cold air to circulate to the floor, and the hot air at ceiling-level quickly leaves the home.
Infrared light, since it is like visible light, bounces off objects in the same way. Infrared light disperses from its source emanating and reflecting from inorganic substances, e.g. the ceiling of your house, bouncing the light waves within the house. This is why traditional heaters are not efficient at heating the house and why infrared heaters are. This is why infrared heaters are more economical than traditional heaters.
