this post was submitted on 30 Oct 2024
59 points (95.4% liked)

No Stupid Questions

35696 readers
1334 users here now

No such thing. Ask away!

!nostupidquestions is a community dedicated to being helpful and answering each others' questions on various topics.

The rules for posting and commenting, besides the rules defined here for lemmy.world, are as follows:

Rules (interactive)


Rule 1- All posts must be legitimate questions. All post titles must include a question.

All posts must be legitimate questions, and all post titles must include a question. Questions that are joke or trolling questions, memes, song lyrics as title, etc. are not allowed here. See Rule 6 for all exceptions.



Rule 2- Your question subject cannot be illegal or NSFW material.

Your question subject cannot be illegal or NSFW material. You will be warned first, banned second.



Rule 3- Do not seek mental, medical and professional help here.

Do not seek mental, medical and professional help here. Breaking this rule will not get you or your post removed, but it will put you at risk, and possibly in danger.



Rule 4- No self promotion or upvote-farming of any kind.

That's it.



Rule 5- No baiting or sealioning or promoting an agenda.

Questions which, instead of being of an innocuous nature, are specifically intended (based on reports and in the opinion of our crack moderation team) to bait users into ideological wars on charged political topics will be removed and the authors warned - or banned - depending on severity.



Rule 6- Regarding META posts and joke questions.

Provided it is about the community itself, you may post non-question posts using the [META] tag on your post title.

On fridays, you are allowed to post meme and troll questions, on the condition that it's in text format only, and conforms with our other rules. These posts MUST include the [NSQ Friday] tag in their title.

If you post a serious question on friday and are looking only for legitimate answers, then please include the [Serious] tag on your post. Irrelevant replies will then be removed by moderators.



Rule 7- You can't intentionally annoy, mock, or harass other members.

If you intentionally annoy, mock, harass, or discriminate against any individual member, you will be removed.

Likewise, if you are a member, sympathiser or a resemblant of a movement that is known to largely hate, mock, discriminate against, and/or want to take lives of a group of people, and you were provably vocal about your hate, then you will be banned on sight.



Rule 8- All comments should try to stay relevant to their parent content.



Rule 9- Reposts from other platforms are not allowed.

Let everyone have their own content.



Rule 10- Majority of bots aren't allowed to participate here.



Credits

Our breathtaking icon was bestowed upon us by @Cevilia!

The greatest banner of all time: by @TheOneWithTheHair!

founded 1 year ago
MODERATORS
 

With winter coming up, I have two options for home heating.

Central unit

  • I can use the central unit and close/open vents throughout the house to heat up only the individual rooms I want. This would heat up rooms very quickly. However, to make this work, the living room with the thermostat will also need to be heated so that the thermostat reads the proper temperature. The living room is by far the largest space at about 2.5 times the size of the largest room.

Oil-filled radiator

  • I can use an oil-filled radiator to heat up an individual room. This would be much slower, but I wouldn't have to heat up the entire living room. However, the oil-filled heater might not be as efficient as the central unit. I don't know. I plan to rarely heat up the living, no more than once per month.

Edit: The central heating unit is actually a heating kit made up of a few coils that is added to the central a/c.

Edit 2: Where I live, it might freeze once per year over night for a few hours.

Which would be more efficient on the electrical bill, and would t be considerable or negligible?

you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments
[–] Mjpasta710@midwest.social 1 points 5 days ago (1 children)
[–] Boomkop3@reddthat.com 1 points 5 days ago (1 children)

Oh that's an odd approach, it's just an electric heater with extra steps

[–] Mjpasta710@midwest.social 1 points 5 days ago (1 children)

Basically yes.

It adds some efficiency because once you have a radiator full of hot oil in the radiator it tends to release the heat for a long while after the electric is shut-off.

Most electric space heaters send a plume of hot air arcing upwards.

You end up with a nice heat storage device to radiate warmth at the level you want to use it for longer than a normal resistive space heater using the same energy.

[–] Boomkop3@reddthat.com 2 points 5 days ago (2 children)

ahh, that is handy! But I guess that's only suitable for some types of spaces

[–] Mjpasta710@midwest.social 2 points 5 days ago

It has its uses.
Like most bespoke items they're good at some things, not everything.

It's nice if you're trying to keep an indoor living space warm for a longer period, like overnight.

They typically have a thermostat setting on it to maintain the temperature.

It doesn't make the same noise as a blowing space heater, as there's usually not a fan. I've heard creaks and such from them.

As noted, the radiative effect can last for a few hours depending on energy loss in the space.

[–] Mjpasta710@midwest.social 1 points 5 days ago

It has its uses.
Like most bespoke items they're good at some things, not everything.

It's nice if you're trying to keep an indoor living space warm for a longer period, like overnight.

They typically have a thermostat setting on it to maintain the temperature.

It doesn't make the same noise as a blowing space heater, as there's usually not a fan. I've heard creaks and such from them.

As noted, the radiative effect can last for a few hours depending on energy loss in the space.