Absolutively true. However, the effective heat, as felt by people's in the room, may differ a bit from one type of appliance to another.
As an extreme, you can have a radiant glow tube 15 feet away from you making your skin feel warmish, even though the room temperature maight still be 50 degrees F.
OK - a 10 watt fan vs a 1200 watt heater element ... good point :-)
Yeh - to deal with the cold near its source. Often under windows for that reason also.
Plus, some women complain about radiators in the middle of the room :-)
Chris Remember that ohms law does not change regardless of model size or its fixture!!!
This is why the $400 "infrared" heaters (EP,ST, H&G, etc.) annoy me so much, all of the infrared is contained within the unit, they are just overpriced forced air heaters. If you want true infrared either get a regular quartz infrared radiant electric heater or (better) a ceramic plaque infrared gas heater.
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