Following on from the last post here is a bit more information about the different types of heaters and stoves that can be selected to generate the sauna’s heat.
Firstly, saunas require a hot dry low humidity heat. This means that the kind of dry heat produced by a naked flame or fossil fuels is best, however this is rarely practical in a home environment. The safe and clean alternatives are an electric stove or an infrared powered heater.
Stoves
Most heaters for sauna kits and home based saunas use an electric stove. This kind of heat has a hot plate that is heated to a very high temperature and rocks (known as hot rocks) are place on this heated plate. The result is that the rocks fill the room with a hot dry heat that would not be bearable if humidity were introduced.
This kind of stove is clean and energy efficient to run and it requires no special flu or ventilation. The only necessity is an electric supply. It is easy to clean and different power outputs of stove will work with different room sizes.
Infrared heaters
Infrared heaters work in a totally different way. The heater does not warm the air or generate any convection heat at all. Instead it uses a mild and healthy form of radiation that heats up any object that its rays fall upon. This means that by having infrared heaters directed towards the benches where the participants sit it is possible to make the sauna goers feel hot in the same way that direct sunlight makes the skin feel warm.
An added bonus of this form of heating is the low running costs and immediate effect once the heaters are switched on. The sauna room will also remain at a normal temperature even when the heaters are all on.
Subscribe to:
Post Comments (Atom)
No comments:
Post a Comment