Short elec baseboard heater?
<18″ baseboard? Not off the top of my head. But if a bathroom, you could consider an electric towel rack as a a way to add BTUs to a room.
Anyone cut down a 24″ to a smaller size? I’m not sure how they are terminated, but maybe it could be done. Heat trace cable, immersion heaters, etc – all can be modified from one length or voltage to a another with little trouble (but total disregard for its former UL listing).
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Toe kick heater might come that short. Check clearances etc and you might be able to cut that in a wall at the basebd, or put it where it belongs in the kick of the cabinet if there is one.
Remodeling Contractor just outside the Glass City.
Quittin' Time
The attachmet pix of cores sitting on a 25" wide table top, and are 6 core sections from 30" QMark heaters
I needed a 20 " long 1.5 kW stack so did this (for a solar array experiment on Maui) . You could cut the baseboard cabinet off and shorten it and still have room for the leads., reterminated - crimp or silver brze high temp wire to the heater studs (spot welded on the original) for you leads, etc. etc. --not worth the trouble is it, uinles for special projects.
Comcast hosed up today so didn't try to correct spelling here.
"for a solar array experiment on Maui"
A high-wattage. low-impedence, air-cooled, resistive energy sink. Cool.
I'm guessing you used it on 120 volts. Then six 50 ohm baseboards in parallel would be about a 9 ohm resistor and 1500 watts.
It can be tough to find a good, cheap, high-wattage heat sink for 12 volts. Kind of cheesy to use sealed-beam headlight, but they work.David Thomas Overlooking Cook Inlet in Kenai, Alaska
David:
1200 V, 1.3 kW array, prototype of concentrating HV array to directly drive ion engines or for driving microwave power beams. Used 277 V heater elements (200 ohms ea.) plus electronic loads for power peaking for the load.
A paper on the experiment will be given at the Solar Power from Space conference in June, .
"1.3 kW array for driving microwave power beams"
That would be handy, since here I am, eating Orville Redenbacher's Microwave popcorn as I type. :-)
David Thomas Overlooking Cook Inlet in Kenai, Alaska
"I've been looking for an 18" -20" electric baseboard heater. Sorted through lots of Google hits... Smallest I can find is 24".
Hasbeen,
As supplemental heat, I placed a 48" 250V one in a tiny bath in my house 'cause there was no easy way to duct it for forced air. It takes at least an hour or two to bring it up to a comfortable temp in the morning. ie. even if you can find one, how much heat is it going to provide?
Jon
That's a good point, Jon, but we live in such different climates that I doubt I need nearly as much heat as you. It's also going into my new home which features some internal thermal mass, solar gain (we get over 300 days of full sun per year), and R-22 walls (dense pack) and R-80 ceiling.
It's been in the high seventies to low eighties here for the past couple of weeks.Something is what it does.
"and R-80 ceiling."
Hasbeen,........WOW!!!!!!!!!
How did you accomplish that?
Jon
Not actually done yet, but it'll be blown in cellulose in the attic (truss roof).Something is what it does.