Tea Candle Heater Myth

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Tea candle heater myth.

Tea lights are made of paraffin wax and are commonly about 38 mm in diameter and 16 mm high and burn for 3 to 5 hours per wikipedia. One tea candle can produce around 30 watts of heat which means that you need at least 20 to 30 tea candles to heat a very small room and replace them every 3 to 4 hours. Rv van car suv. Https youtu be v0x95mddfxi i measure the heating effect of the flowerpot heater versus just the candl.

According to wikipedia a single tealight has an energy output of about 100 btu hr. Look at it this way. While the flower pot does increase the effectiveness of the candles as heaters a few calculations can show how little heat it actually produces. The science video is correct.

So let s suppose a space heater would take one hour. Plus the whole thing is unsafe. Thus you actually would need fifty candles to heat the room as efficiently as a space heater instead of just four. 5 000 btu candle camper heater uco candlelier lantern heat your camper.

Back to our candle heater. There just isn t enough mass in the candle wick to radiate a large amount of heat. Part two examining the cost of heating with candles. A small space heater capable of heating a small room is 5000 btu hr.

With our tea light candle there s a small amount of radiated heat from the burning wick. There is just not enough energy in the tea lights to do much heating and such low temperature burning is inefficient anyhow. However it isn t running on wood but on petroleum the stuff paraffin is usually made of. Candle warmers etc 2 in 1 candle and fragrance warmer for warming scented candles or wax melts and tarts with to freshen room vintage white 4 6 out of 5 stars 3 829 14 99 14.

You have now built a small fireplace using tea candles. A tea light candle is like a votive. However it s not an effective means of heating your hands let alone a room. Whether it s convection or radiation etc.

I believe it s radiating the heat which isn t as effective as if it was convecting it. Obviously if you re using candles as an actual heat source you ll go through a lot of candles very quickly and want to buy your fuel as cheaply as possible.