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Walmart has the Quality Craft Fireplace/Entertainment Center for $169 with free site to store shipping or $7 shipping to home. Features an integrated 1250W heater for the cozy fireplace look and feel as you watch TV.
$169
Not such a bright idea, maybe even walmart shopper territory to put a tv right above an enclosed space heater.
I have no doubt that it has sufficient insulation on four sides. After all it's sitting directly above your carpet. If a TV is your main concern this trailer trash product is right for you. Not to defend this hideous or distracting entertainment center.
A heater has to heat the air around it, air that when heated rises upwards (where the TV is). If the heater were entirely enclosed in insulating material it would be an oven not a heater.
Even if it only raises the TV temperature 10C, that amount is considered sufficient to cause half the lifespan of consumer electronics, particularly TV sets with passively cooled power supplies inside that run hot even in ideal environments.
No it's doesn't heat all of the air around it. That whole cabinet below it isn't a heater. Most of it's decoration. Nor is this designed just rise up. It blows forward(some heat eventually rising up) This isn't a radiator heater & it's only 1250watts you can clearly see it in the picture that it is located at the far bottom. The vent, the fan, even the heating element.
I mentioned the insulation it may have would be only on 4 sides. I should have said 5 actually. That's still isn't fully enclose. Yours second post makes me wonder if you still haven't seen the picture. Of course It's it's not "fully" insulated. It wouldn't work. This only shows that you are only arguing the fact of trying to be right on an opinion you have.
Toaster based heaters are a bad idea no matter where you put them in a house. A TV being 2 feet above it doesn't make any difference. If the unit fails your house will burn up. And if you're really only worried about your TV and not the rest of your house or well being. You definitely live in a trailer.
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#4...
1) It doesn't matter if the "whole cabinet" is a heater or not, only the proximity to the TV on top.
2) Regardless of whether it blows forward, it is inevitable that the area above a heater is warmer than the rest of the room... this is how heated air works, with a gradient between the hottest area immediately around the heater to the coldest areas furthest away (and/or around areas of heat loss like windows).
3) "It's only 1250W". Yes, 1250W is plenty to heat up things around it.
4) 4 sides of insulation or 5, the fact remains that it is exhausting hot air. Similarly, I would not advise putting your TV on top of a stand above a HVAC heat duct either even though that air will be at a significantly lower temperature than coming out of a 1250W heater unless it had a ridiculously powerful (excessively noisy) fan.
5) It's not an opinion that it is hotter in the vicinity of a heater and that a TV contains parts known to have significantly shorter lifespan in such a hotter environment.
6) WTF is a "toaster based heater" supposed to mean? Nichrome heating elements? There are several safety mechanisms in this type of heater, while I try to avoid them because the low quality wire and crimps used to secure it tend to make them have shorter lifespans, when they fail it is very unlikely to burn your house up as you put it.
There is overcurrent limitation on the circuit, overtemperature cutoff in the heater. It would have to be a multi-point failure simultaneously to cause a fire and if you want to talk about fires from multi-point failures, anything that plugs into a wall outlet could catch fire and some things that don't... including the TV set itself.
7) I can appreciate that you probably live at Walmart so you don't have to worry about things like owning a TV, while I have used electric heaters for years and (surprise!) they have never caught anything on fire. Maybe you are just a…