Powered by nothing but tea lights.
Ceramic pot tea light heater.
Or you can put in a little bit more effort and make the design shown in the video.
One modification was to upgrade the heat source from a tea candle to a sterno can.
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You could try setting your tea lights on bricks instead and propping the ceramic pots up with more bricks.
The original designs i found online has a hole at.
The only real problem with the tea light flower pot heater is that the tray can get really hot.
According to wikipedia a single tealight has an energy output of about 100 btu hr.
Raise the lower pot off the ground.
Tea candle and ceramic flower pot heater.
There s been a slight debate on whether this actually works or not.
Whether it s convection or radiation etc.
The top pot soon warms up giving off a lot of heat.
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.
Build this diy space heater to keep your personal space warm and toasty this winter.
There are a few videos going around the web on heating a room using a ceramic flower pot heater.
I did the math for you and that comes to 13 cents usd.
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.
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Enough heat to indeed raise the temperature of a small room.
Easy to build attractive inexpensive and efficient ceramic pot heater.
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.
I believe it s radiating the heat which isn t as effective as if it was convecting it.
Ceramic clay pot heater.
The british video has the presenter saying it costs him 8 pence a day to heat his room.
Eco friendly clay pot heater.
A small space heater capable of heating a small room is 5000 btu hr.
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.
Tea lights are small and somewhat insignificant when standing alone but when grouped together they can become a significant source.
Thus you actually would need fifty candles to heat the room as efficiently as a space heater instead of just four.
