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InternResponsible119 t1_j12muuy wrote

Get a small fan and put it on the other side of the room from the oil heater. Put the fan on low. You just want to push air through it, not blow on it. It takes a while to heat up and once it's hot if you blow on it too hard you'll cool it off and it won't heat anything.

If you don't use a fan the heat from the oil heater just goes straight up to the ceiling and heats up your jerkoff neighbor's apartment upstairs

Fuck that guy

Get a small fan and move air through the heater and get a little room circulation going.

The other way to go is to take a medium fan and point it towards a ceiling corner of the room or straight up to the ceiling just to get full room circulation going and that will do the job as well, but you might want to orient the heater such that air moves easily through it once you figure out how the air is moving.

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hacknix t1_j13ia3b wrote

The more you cool the radiator the more you heat the room as more heat is transferred to the surrounding air. Remember, energy cannot be created or destroyed ....

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InternResponsible119 t1_j1457bw wrote

The book may say but I tell you from experience that if you cool off the heater too much it isn't going to throw heat anywhere near as much as if you let it stay hot.

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hacknix t1_j1475tx wrote

You canne change the laws of physics ...

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tendaga t1_j16dome wrote

But you can change the efficiency by modifying airflow.

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hacknix t1_j1d9sjc wrote

Possibly. What OP is probably noticing is that if more heat is transferred by convection, there may be less heat transferred as radiant heat, so if you sit or stand in front of it, you maybe won't feel the warmth so much. The heat is still transferred, but using a different method. So, the room may be warmed more efficiently with more air flow, but, for example, your legs, if you are sitting facing it, may not be. So it depends what you want. Are you more interested in warming the room, or your person?

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ThisWillBeOnTheExam t1_j15pnns wrote

This. A fan behind it to circulate the air will make the difference. Also, keep in mind that electrically powered heating is just not cheap.

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