A Watt is a Watt . A Kilowatt is a kilowatt. A small tealight candle is equivalent to 32watts (according to Google) the 32 Watts might be useful if you use 10 giving a 320 Watt heater for 3 hours, maybe ? The main question i have is at what cost ? 100 tealight candles cost £4 tesco = 3 KW for 3 hours ? I can run a fan heater 3KW for 3 hours for 25p /Kwh = 25p ×3×3 = £2.25 . So not only is tealight candles as a heater a fire hazard. It's a bit of a faff riging it up and almost 2× more expensive than just pluging in a oil filled radiator or fan heater or similar.
Thank you very much for your comment. Yes, I agree with your comment about cost and safety. The video was a description of what a clay plot heater can do, it was not intended to promote it.
I've been trying to think up a way to keep a bunky in a forest that I just acquired above freezing inside for food and water storage while it isn't being used. This won't work in particular for my needs since the candles have a limited run time, but I have to do something because I am being robbed using electric heat.
Thanks very much for your comment. I saw one video where the chap produced an enormous candle using a can of vegetable cooking fat (Crisco in US), which would have lasted ages.
I've never understood the point of the pot or pots. A tealight produces around 30 watts of heat over its whole burn. The pots don't increase that in any way shape or form. It may spread it's heat release out over a slighty longer time period but the total amount is still identical. Putting the candles in a candle holder is much safer and produces the same amount of heat. In other words, the first law of thermodynamics applies to candles as it does to any other heat source without fail and it has not been proven false once since Mr. Whatt came up with it...
@@DiakosDelvin But the heat enters the room in the same quantity no matter what. In terms of "how much does this increase the heat of the room?" the pot adds nothing. The total energy put into the room is exactly the same. The pot is not "unlocking" anything.
excactly my thoughts. The amount of energy doesn´t change no matter what. The time releasing it can be prolonged a bit. I have a tenthut in my summerhouse with a small outdoor stove, and I´ve put a big, heavy stone on top that gets heated up and releases heat for a longer time than the stove itself, but the amount of heat is the same in the end.
Thanks for your comment, much appreciated, and I agree that the pots can’t increase the amount of heat produced by the candles, they just store it and then gradually release it.
@DiakosDelvin if it where true that the heat is in the pot and not in the air. there would indeed be no heat to escape but there would also be no heat to feel....🤦♂️ as the energy can't be in two places at one.
remember 5 seconds ago when gas stoves were dangerous indoors without a flashood? This is exactly the same thing...plus a lightweight unstable open flame in an indoor flammable environment. When the gov't shuts it all down...use this to get a bit of comfort..but beware.
FYI don't use these indoors. You're releasing quite a lot of pm2 sized particles into the air in an enclosed space. A greenhouse it's fine but really don't use these in your house. You'd need decent ventilation to offset the pollution which is going to take away all the heat you're creating anyway.
A Watt is a Watt . A Kilowatt is a kilowatt.
A small tealight candle is equivalent to 32watts (according to Google) the 32 Watts might be useful if you use 10 giving a 320 Watt heater for 3 hours, maybe ?
The main question i have is at what cost ?
100 tealight candles cost £4 tesco = 3 KW for 3 hours ?
I can run a fan heater 3KW for 3 hours for 25p /Kwh = 25p ×3×3 = £2.25 .
So not only is tealight candles as a heater a fire hazard. It's a bit of a faff riging it up and almost 2× more expensive than just pluging in a oil filled radiator or fan heater or similar.
Thank you very much for your comment. Yes, I agree with your comment about cost and safety. The video was a description of what a clay plot heater can do, it was not intended to promote it.
I've been trying to think up a way to keep a bunky in a forest that I just acquired above freezing inside for food and water storage while it isn't being used. This won't work in particular for my needs since the candles have a limited run time, but I have to do something because I am being robbed using electric heat.
Thanks very much for your comment. I saw one video where the chap produced an enormous candle using a can of vegetable cooking fat (Crisco in US), which would have lasted ages.
I've never understood the point of the pot or pots. A tealight produces around 30 watts of heat over its whole burn. The pots don't increase that in any way shape or form. It may spread it's heat release out over a slighty longer time period but the total amount is still identical. Putting the candles in a candle holder is much safer and produces the same amount of heat. In other words, the first law of thermodynamics applies to candles as it does to any other heat source without fail and it has not been proven false once since Mr. Whatt came up with it...
The pot retains heat longer than air and opening a door doesn't have all the heat blast out in an instant.
@@DiakosDelvin But the heat enters the room in the same quantity no matter what. In terms of "how much does this increase the heat of the room?" the pot adds nothing. The total energy put into the room is exactly the same. The pot is not "unlocking" anything.
excactly my thoughts. The amount of energy doesn´t change no matter what. The time releasing it can be prolonged a bit. I have a tenthut in my summerhouse with a small outdoor stove, and I´ve put a big, heavy stone on top that gets heated up and releases heat for a longer time than the stove itself, but the amount of heat is the same in the end.
Thanks for your comment, much appreciated, and I agree that the pots can’t increase the amount of heat produced by the candles, they just store it and then gradually release it.
@DiakosDelvin if it where true that the heat is in the pot and not in the air. there would indeed be no heat to escape but there would also be no heat to feel....🤦♂️ as the energy can't be in two places at one.
remember 5 seconds ago when gas stoves were dangerous indoors without a flashood? This is exactly the same thing...plus a lightweight unstable open flame in an indoor flammable environment. When the gov't shuts it all down...use this to get a bit of comfort..but beware.
Thanks very much
FYI don't use these indoors. You're releasing quite a lot of pm2 sized particles into the air in an enclosed space. A greenhouse it's fine but really don't use these in your house.
You'd need decent ventilation to offset the pollution which is going to take away all the heat you're creating anyway.
Thanks very much for the reply