Ditching the propane heater for an electric

MrWizard wrote:
Radiant heat is good for directional heat in a local area, convection heat will heat a larger area, but you won't feel it as quickly.

We have a brand new experience going on with radiant heat that is awesome:

We just had installed a propane fireplace (from Canada) in the large living room area of our stick house that is specifically designed to put out radiant heat only - no blower fan for it required or available.

It is controlled by a small remote with a room air temperature gauge on the remote. With the room starting out at, say, 65 degrees air temperature as indicated by the gauge on the remote, we can turn on the fireplace initially at maximum flame and after maybe 1/2 to 1 hour the air temperature gauge might reach 72-73 degrees. This all happens because radiant heat from the fireplace is heating objects (which includes us) and it's the objects in the room that as they warm up slowly heat the air in the room.

However, IMMEDIATELY after turning on the fireplace our whole bodies (anywhere in the room - up to 20 feet away) begin to feel drenched in soothing warmth - what a feeling on a chilly evening! There is no substitute for this type of warming comfort, IMHO. That's why in an earlier post I talked jokingly about "not all BTU's being the same".

This is the 1500 watt infrared quartz tower heater that we use in our RV that heats probably at least 80% as radiant with maybe only 20% as convection. This heater immediately gives us the same warm feeling in the motorhome as the fireplace does in the stick house:

http://www.bestbuy.com/site/holmes-infrared-quartz-tower-heater-white/3845025.p?id=1219093975213&skuId=3845025&ref=06&loc=01&ci_src=14110944&ci_sku=3845025&extensionType=pla:g&s_kwcid=PTC!pla!!!52478481523!g!!46568271639&kpid=3845025&k_clickid=4ecda672-aa64-5068-0a0e-00005f412d89&kpid=3845025&lsft=ref:212,loc:1&ksid=4ecda672-aa64-5068-0a0e-00005f412d89&ksprof_id=13&ksaffcode=1111&ksdevice=c