Check these affiliate links for the current prices. Mica is my favorite style: https://geni.us/pivquuL (Amazon)
Mica Panel Heaters: https://geni.us/UIChlW1 (Amazon) || Oil Filled Radiator Heaters: https://geni.us/x0AR (Amazon) || Ceramic Space Heaters: https://geni.us/DbnBg23 (Amazon) || Infrared Heaters: https://geni.us/KGLJyL (Amazon)

Here are the rooms/applications I recommend for the different types of space heaters:

Ceramic Space Heaters: https://geni.us/DbnBg23 (Amazon) - Small ones are good for personal spaces like an office desk or cubicle. Larger ones are good for large rooms like family room, living room, garage etc. The fan can be loud so keep that in mind.

Oil Filled Radiator Heaters: https://geni.us/x0AR (Amazon) - Use this type of space heater in a small to medium sized enclosed room that you are in for long periods of time like a bedroom. It is noiseless and ideal for maintaining a temperature. Good for when you are sleeping.

Infrared Heaters: https://geni.us/KGLJyL (Amazon) - Use these in larger or open areas. Make sure to point it to where people are. These type of heaters often look like furniture so they work well in a living, family, or dining room. They usually have a fan so you will have noise as an issue.

Mica Panel Heaters: https://geni.us/UIChlW1 (Amazon) - Because of its versatility, this is probably my favorite style of space heater. It is noiseless, and lightweight. This will work well for any room and for large open spaces (though a parabolic heater, or heater with a fan is probably a better candidate for open spaces).

Parabolic Space Heaters: https://geni.us/QKVKHw2 (Amazon) - The room type/size does not really matter much for this; use this for when you don't plan on moving around a lot. Watching TV, working on a workbench, etc (Note: I did not talk about this type of space heater in my video but I did use this type primarily when I was living in China. It is quite bright, so I would use this as a double for a light bulb. It heats up you and not so much the room, so if you move around the room a lot, this probably would not be the recommended style of space heater).

This is the Amazon list of my favorite space heaters: https://a.co/8UehfTC

The Experiment: Over the course of several months, I tested the room in the morning using various heaters. I tested the increase of temperature over an hour.

The Results: The results were varied and a bit surprising. Basically, the more energy the heater used, the more it would heat the room (I guess that is your basic common sense). I found that heating a room as fast as possible is the best way to minimize cost. The best heater you can get for saving money is the one that gets the room hot the fasted. For me this turned out to be the mica and infrared heaters.

Conclusion: Basically, there is no best heater. You need to find a heater that suits your needs. For me this was the mica heater. This is quiet and hot and was able to heat my room as fast as the infrared heater which is also good. I have seen ceramic heaters that work just as well as this.

Here is the spreadsheet I used: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/...

A note about the spreadsheet. I used the spreadsheet to organize my data and I don't have all the notes and readings that I originally had; hopefully this spreadsheet helps explain what I was testing though.

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