Sunnyheat against night storage heater Pt3

Just a reply from a happy customer!

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Hi Sunnyheat!

The log shows total 192 hours of “on” time and 111 kWh consumption. That is .57 unit per hour ~€2 per day, the storage heater and convection heater would have used 380 kWh, this is brilliant I think, the employee has turned off the convection heater and storage heaters. The only thing is the room is heated at the weekends when it is not needed so I need to adjust the programme.

Thanks for superb customer support.
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This shows that even though we now can heat the rooms to the desired temperature (which wasn't possible with the night storage heater, therefore an extra convection heater was used) we are still able to reduce the cost of electricity by about 70%!

Temperature of the rooms is standard 22 degrees during day, 17 at night. During the day it can be pushed up to about 24 degrees by employee. Measurements taken during January 2011.

See part of log, starts at 17 degrees, 4 o'clock at night, goes up to 23.5. You can see that the room temperature drops automatically from 23.5 to 17 degrees at 17:30. The room drops quickly from 23.5 to 20.5 within half an hour and finally arrives at the 17 degrees at about 21:30 at a rate of about 1 degree per hour. During this period the panel doesn't have to do anything and starts keeping the room at 17 degrees from 22:00 till 08:30 when it starts heating it from 17 to 22 degrees. Outside temperature that day was 2 degrees, frost at night of about -6.

ID,date, time, temp, humidity%,dew point

721,12/01/2011 04:00:00,17.0,47.0,5.6
781,12/01/2011 05:00:00,17.0,47.5,5.8
841,12/01/2011 06:00:00,17.0,47.0,5.6
901,12/01/2011 07:00:00,17.0,46.5,5.5
961,12/01/2011 08:00:00,17.0,46.5,5.5
1021,12/01/2011 09:00:00,20.5,42.5,7.3
1081,12/01/2011 10:00:00,22.0,40.0,7.8
1141,12/01/2011 11:00:00,23.0,38.5,8.1
1201,12/01/2011 12:00:00,23.5,38.5,8.6
1261,12/01/2011 13:00:00,23.5,39.5,8.9
1321,12/01/2011 14:00:00,23.5,41.0,9.5
1381,12/01/2011 15:00:00,23.5,41.0,9.5
1441,12/01/2011 16:00:00,23.5,42.0,9.9
1501,12/01/2011 17:00:00,23.5,41.0,9.5
1561,12/01/2011 18:00:00,20.5,45.0,8.2
1621,12/01/2011 19:00:00,19.0,47.0,7.4
1681,12/01/2011 20:00:00,18.0,48.5,7.0
1741,12/01/2011 21:00:00,17.5,49.5,6.8
1801,12/01/2011 22:00:00,17.0,49.5,6.4

Sunnyheat warranty extended

WARRANTY INFORMATION SUNNYHEAT IR-PANEL

The Manufacturers’ Warranty for the Sunnyheat product is for a period of ten (10) years.

The warranty covers against material faults and defects of all mechanical parts of
the panel.

The warranty period for the electronic on the back of the panel and the IST is
for two (2) years;
the warranty cover begins as of the date of purchase from the specialist dealer.

Save equipment against heavy frost with Sunnyheat Infrared Heating Panel

Have you also had frozen pipes, frozen water treatment systems, frozen pumps, etc. in the last heavy frost? 

Now you can protect your equipment by installing the smallest infrared heating panel from Sunnyheat into your pump/well house. This panel, which is 30cm x 30cm and has a max. power usage of 250w protects your equipment. With it's frost setting, the panel only kicks in when the temperature drops below 5 degrees. When properly insulated, the running costs will be extremely low! The surface temperature of the panel can reach max. 150 degrees which ensures that an area of 3 meter square will be sufficiently heated to avoid frost damage.

Far Infrared beams heat surfaces, not air, so surfaces are kept above freezing temperatures.

For larger areas, for example milking parlours, larger panels are available.

Ask your local representative for a quotation.

Sunnyheat Infrared panels in church

As you may know, it's nearly impossible to heat a church. However, there is now a solution available by using far infrared heating panels made by Sunnyheat!

Sunnyheat infrared heating panels were installed in a church in Namen (Namur) in Belgium. On the pictures you can see that the panels were mounted on iron arms that can be moved around to position the panels above church goers. The panels are mounted on a height of 3 meters.

Here the priest chose to use iron arms. You can also have steel cables that go across the ship of the church and hang the panels in between them.

Instead of heating the church with conventional heating methods, which will heat the air, with these infrared panels you heat the people and the surfaces (like the tiled floor) below.

Sunnyheat Infrared panels hanging 3 meter above people

The people get the feel of the warmth of the sun, without the air being heated. The panels will be put on a half hour before the service and turned off straight after. Total running cost per panel is then maximum 2kw per hour per panel. Obviously you only turn on the panels where people are seated, other panels can be left off.

Each large panel (60x120) covers an area of 15 to 20m2. Panels are only placed above area where people are seated, about 3 meters above peoples heads.

Sunnyheat against storage heaters pt2

The graph below shows the print room temperature and humidity levels in October. The Sunnyheat panels maintained a set temp of 20.5 Degrees (DAY AND NIGHT) and used 730 kWh of electricity in the process while reducing humidity range. That’s an energy saving of 46% over using storage heating, which is not controllable or effective. The cost saving is estimated to be 80 cents a day although in the summer the saving was €3.80 per day. The Sunnyheat panels have a fully programmable remote controlled thermostat and the long wave radiant heat does not heat the air but rather the fabric of the building and its contents. As the surface temperatures are higher the air temperature does not need to be as high in order for thermal comfort levels to be achieved. Storage heaters primarily heat the air which is easily lost in a leaky building. The operator is very happy with the comfort levels in the print room now. The Sunnyheat panels are designed to replace tiles in suspended ceilings. http://www.sunnyheat.ie/

The graph below shows the storage heaters and convection heaters in Dec 2009, the temperature in the room struggled to get to 20 Deg and the humidity was all over the place.

Bikram Yoga and Sunnyheat

This test was performed in a Sportsschool in Hilversum Holland.

With Bikram Yoga you need a floor with a temperature of 40 degrees celcius.

In this room (42 square meter) we installed 6 large panels (60cm x 120cm) in a suspended ceiling. The floor was quick step laminate.

After 1 hour of heating up (before the session) ground floor temperatures of 40 degrees were measured.

The power consumption during the first hour was: 6x2000watt, the next hour (during the session) was 6x1000W. In total the consumption was 18kW, which cost a total of 18*15ct = 2 euro 70 ct.

The beauty of the system is that you can group panels, so when you have a small group, you only put on one group, there is no need to heat up the complete room!

Also, the room is not 'stuffy', because no air is being moved around.

Sunnyheat on Sustainable Building Show 7-9 October 2010

Sunnyheat will attend the Sustainable Building Show in

Simmonscourt, RDS, Dublin

7th - 9th of October 2010

Stand S4

http://www.sustainablebuildingshow.com/