An electric baseboard heater is an individual unit which heats a house room-by-room. This tupe of heaters requires no expensive duct work and no central heating. These heaters are less efficient than the majority of central heating systems, but they use principles of air flow and radiation to work better than the majority of other space heating units.
Electric baseboard heaters look like hydronic baseboard heaters, however, they use electric heating coils for non motorized convection heating. Baseboard heaters don’t have room and they are not proportioned for effective motorized cooling, so they let the environment to take care of moving the hot air out of the way.
Cool air is drawn into the bottom slots and warmed by the heating fins and coils by using convection. After that the warm air exits from the top slots of the unit. These units are generally placed beneath windows to counter heat loss through the glass.
In order to control the baseboard heater a remote line voltage thermostat may be used. It may also come with an integrated thermostat control. It’s very important to keep the unit unobstructed by furniture and clear of drapes for best performance.
