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SIZING YOUR KEROSENE HEATER TO FIT YOUR NEED

What you want to get is a heater that will comfortably fill your heating needs without having too much excess heating capacity. Most Wick Type Kerosene Heaters are made to run at one temperature for maximum heat, efficiency and clean exhaust. Buying too large of a heater will cause you to turn the heater off if it gets too warm in the room and then light it again when the room cools off. This on and off of the heater will cause more kerosene odor and could dirty the wick up faster.

If you turn the flame down too much, you will get incomplete burn and a high kerosene odor. If you turn a heater's flame up too high, you can get smoke and soot buildup.

In general, you can estimate the size of the heater you need by multiplying the square footage of the room you plan to heat to 70° by the factor 22. For example, if you had a 20' X 20' basement den you wanted to zone-heat, you would perform the following calculations:

[a] 20 X 20 = 400 (total number of square feet to be heated)

[b] 400 X 22 (the constant factor) = 8,800 BTU/hour

You'll need a heater rated at 8,800 BTU/hour to warm up your den. Naturally, you won't be able to find one that's rated exactly that, but the nearest size up, a 10,000 BTU model, should perform admirably.

GUIDE TO SIZING ROOM HEATERS
MODEL	HEAT RATING (BTU/HR.)			BURNING TIME (HOURS)		HEATING AREA (SQ. FT.)*
						0°	20°
HEATMATE
CV2230		23,000	12-16		950			1,140
RADIANT
CT1100		10,600	16-20		420			500
CORONA
SX-2E Radiant		10,000	13		360			400
SENGOKU
OR-77 OMNI-Radiant		10,000	14		360			400
KEROHEAT
RF-1140 with Built-In Fan		10,600	14		360			500
ALPACA
Cooker/Heater		8,500	16		300			330

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