Candle Powered Air Heater - DIY Radiant Space Heater - flower pot heater - Easy DIY

okay it's working great this thing is so hot you watch it now just barely in here this is just a quick video to show you how to make one of these pot and pot candle powered heaters that's all you need right there to make a couple of clay terracotta pots two or three if they're big like this just use two couple of candles really anywhere from one to three and a bolt like that that's just a five and a half inch half inch hex bolt with two hex nuts and four washers that'll dis up these together securely and a couple candles and you put those two together small pot inside the big pond flip it over put it up on a little stand I'm just going to use three bricks like that should be fine throw the candles on the plate and those pots get extremely hot fast okay just start with the bolt and one washer like this put it up under the pot here right here drop a washer and a hex nut that'll secure the bolt to the first pot then all you do another washer on there like that grab the second pot set it on there evenly and that's full just like that and tighten it up good but don't over tighten you don't want to break the pot or anything okay now we're just going to go ahead throw it on the base light up the candles okay throw them on the plate okay 162 5 now 165 165 degrees now okay it's working great this thing is so hot you can barely touch it now just barely and that's pretty much burning me feels like an oven or it feels like it just came out of the oven you can feel the heat about two to three feet from it I can feel the heat easily right there or about three feet above it if you stand right above it you can feel all the heat coming right off it how these work is when candles normally burn the heat just goes straight up towards the ceiling and disperses throughout the whole room this grabs almost all the heat and saturates those clay pots and then it just emanates out slowly kind of like a wood stove it's been off now for Oh 15 maybe 20 minutes it seems like it's just as hot as it was when the candles are under there I still can't touch it longer than what you say it's the same that's really hot but this is going to stay hot for like an hour or more okay so here it is again through experimentation I realized you do not need the third pot if you're using two large thick pots like this unglazed of course a tents almost holding too much heat but two should be perfect unless you're using like smaller or thinner ones and go with the three just one other thing take care and caution when you're doing something like this use a thick bolt heavy bricks or some metal or something use like a cooking trivet or some thick glassware glass plates maybe the glass candles be very careful so you know you don't want to start a fire or anything

Channel: desertsun02

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Keywords: candle, powered, air, heater, space, DIY, Space Heater, Warming, Do It Yourself (Website Category), warm, off grid, thermal, heat, energy, free, power, hot

Id: nzKbFzUEWkA

Length: 4min 44sec (284 seconds)

Published: Sun Sep 01 2013

Reddit Comments

[u/jcrna]

Nice idea he has there.... OMG THAT THUMB!

[u/r0bbiedigital]

this was refuted somewhere, it does not work, you spend more on candles than you would turning your heat on

[u/flufferslut]

Hot flaming things on carpet sounds like a very bad idea.

[u/Love_Science_Pasta]

Oh wow 165F? (75C)

I actually did this without the pots and I found the temperature of the flame in the candle to be 2,600F (1,400C), far hotter than a pot.

Surely by doing this you

• Heat the room slower as the candle is more insulated
• Take up far more space than a small candle

If the candle is producing 100J amount of heat energy, you just get the same amount with a slight delay. Conservation of energy. Adding a pot won't make extra energy.

The only way I can see this working is if the visible light photons emitted are absorbed by the pot interior and remitted as thermal infarred light, then that makes sense but then maybe you should change the colour of the interior to accelerate this.

I propose we do a test to see the effect on room temperature with one of these setups vs just 2 candles naked and look at the temperature curves. SCIENCE!!!

[u/Dark_Shroud]

Just buy a lantern designed to hold tea candles. They protect the flame while radiating the heat out. Plus they're safer.

[u/anonymau5]

These crack very easily from the frequent and extreme temperature changes. be VERY careful and make sure nothing flammable is near the unit.

[u/Aeros24]

Or, you know, just burn some candles without a pot over them. The heat given off from burning the paraffin will heat a room the same amount whether under a pot or not.

Tl;dr: The heat energy produced is the same pot or not. Only viable outdoors or very large room.

[u/Manrog]

This is wrong. Do not bolt them together.

Cap off the the hole in the small pot only. Aluminum foil will work fine. Place the larger pot over the capped small pot. In my opinion, the pots used in this video are too similar in size. The smaller pot should be a bit smaller.

The heat will fill the space within the small pot making it super hot. With the larger pot on top, with the hole open, will cause a vacuum type effect pulling in air from underneath, heating it around the small pot, blowing it out the small hole of the larger pot.

Way more effective then the method in this video.

[u/meatgoat]

Unintentional Christopher Walken impression?