A small space heater capable of heating a small room is 5000 btu hr.
Ceramic pot tea light heater.
I believe it s radiating the heat which isn t as effective as if it was convecting it.
Of course if you re using 2 or 3 sterno cans that s going to create a lot more btu s than the same number of candles.
The top pot soon warms up giving off a lot of heat.
Powered by nothing but tea lights.
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You could try setting your tea lights on bricks instead and propping the ceramic pots up with more bricks.
This is important as it traps the heat in the smaller pot and causes the convection without it the bulk of the heat will go straight through both drain holes.
Tea candle and ceramic flower pot heater.
There are a few videos going around the web on heating a room using a ceramic flower pot heater.
One modification was to upgrade the heat source from a tea candle to a sterno can.
There s been a slight debate on whether this actually works or not.
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Tea lights are small and somewhat insignificant when standing alone but when grouped together they can become a significant source.
Build this diy space heater to keep your personal space warm and toasty this winter.
I did the math for you and that comes to 13 cents usd.
Ceramic clay pot heater.
According to wikipedia a single tealight has an energy output of about 100 btu hr.
The original designs i found online has a hole at.
Eco friendly clay pot heater.
Ceramic flower pot heater.
So let s suppose a space heater would take one hour to heat the room up.
Enough heat to indeed raise the temperature of a small room.
Also it is important to note that tea lights are named such because one of their purposes is to warm tea or in food warmers and products are sold with this in mind.
The only real problem with the tea light flower pot heater is that the tray can get really hot.
So if you use larger heat sources and larger clay pots you ll get more heat.
Thus you actually would need fifty candles to heat the room as efficiently as a space heater instead of just four.
Or you can put in a little bit more effort and make the design shown in the video.
Easy to build attractive inexpensive and efficient ceramic pot heater.
Place the smaller clay flower pot in this case a 5 over the lit tea lights on the trivit block the drain hole with a scrap of aluminium foil the empty case of a used tea light will do fine.
