Tea Light Heater Myth

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Tea light 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. According to wikipedia a single tealight has an energy output of about 100 btu hr. Thus you actually would need fifty candles to heat the room as efficiently as a space heater instead of just four. This video is about testing if a clay pot using tea lights will heat a room.

This is a simple space heater. However a candle heater is more than enough to warm up some icy fingers. A small space heater capable of heating a small room is 5000 btu hr. I start just after 6pm and end up seeing how it.

And as the name implies the heat source is a tea light candle. I find out the truth after 4hrs. This is going into my camper so it s actually fairly small i imagine something like this being lit during a bath or shower to prevent the mirrors from fo. So let s suppose a space heater would take one hour to heat the room up.

If you re going to be burning a candle for light anyways you may as well have a heater core above it to trap the heat too. My final parting words the flowerpot does not increase the amount of heat just its usefulness. I clearly need to repeat this test with just 4 tea lights spread around the van to see if the convector radiator arangment of flower pots is a more effficient means of transmiting the energy from the flames to the air than just burning the tea lights alone.