Uploaded November 2024 | Updated September 2026, 3 weeks ago

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How electric heating works, various types of electric heating, and why it doesn't matter how expensive the heater is - the running costs are the same for any given heat output.

Features three different type of electric heaters, a look at an old Belling electric heating catalogue, some modern heaters, how heating a building works, and why expensive heaters are the same efficiency as cheap ones.

Belling catalogue featured in this video: flameport.com/documentation/electric_heating/Belling_Heating_Cooking_1963-64.pdf
PDF, 38MB.

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00:00 Introduction
01:02 How electric heaters work
04:10 Heat loss for buildings
09:10 Selection of real electric heaters
12:01 Which is most efficient?
13:04 Belling 1963 catalogue
18:09 Cheap vs Expensive
21:01 Mini plug in heaters
24:01 Summary