Heating Parts

There are a few factors that make a home really a nice place to live in. It should be clean, beautiful, protect you from the sun and rain, and, also, the temperature inside should be comfortable. For that, you need all the right heating parts.

Humans have used space heating since the invention of fire. For early humans, this would be a simple bonfire made using twigs and dry branches of trees. When humans became more advanced, they developed fireplaces. However, most people do not use a real fireplace these days. Instead, there are more convenient heaters that work using electricity or natural gas. In order for you to select the right type of heater and heating parts, you need to have a better understanding of them. Read this article to find out more about them.

Four essential heating parts

Space heaters consist of several different parts. If we were to look at all the tiny particles in a heater, there would be hundreds of them. But not all of these are required for replacing a broken part or a section of a heater. For most purposes, it is enough to know about the basics of heating parts. Any heater consists of three main sections. The first section is where the heat is produced. This can be either an electric coil or a combustion chamber, depending on the type of heater. The second section transfers this heat. It is the final part that then heats up the air. Here is a list of four components involved in these three sections of a heater.

Heat exchanger

When the thermostat triggers the heater, it is actually the heat exchanger that warms the cool air. Interestingly, heat exchangers are also present in air coolers. But in air coolers, heat exchangers work in exactly the opposite way as that of the heater. Heat exchangers use strong stainless steel with temperature-resistant alloys to prevent cracking and deforming. Some models even have a special duct to let cool air reach the heat exchanger fasten up the heat exchange. A leak in the heat exchanger can be hazardous. It may result in a leak of carbon monoxide, which can cause headaches, nausea, or even death.

Blower motor

An electric blower motor uses an assembly of fans to push the warm air into the ductwork of the heat exchanger. In fact, the heating pretty much stops when the blower motor stops running. But before the blower shuts down to wait for the next heating cycle, all the warmth in the heat exchanger will be used up. To precisely control the flow of air around your house, a variable-speed blower motor will operate at different speeds according to the ambient temperature. Variable speed motors are not as noisy, and in summer, they can lower your humidity more effectively.

Combustion chamber

A combustion chamber is only present in a gas heater. For proper combustion of the fuel, oxygen must be available. In the case of a heater, it is the function of the combustion chamber to create an ideal atmosphere rich in oxygen for the fuel to burn. The heating cycle for a gas furnace begins when a small volume of a mixture of air and gas reaches the combustion chamber. Then the mixture is ignited by a glow stick or pilot light, and it burns in a controlled fire. Only older heaters use pilot lights for starting combustion. Almost all newer models use glow sticks instead.

Compressor

The compressor, or the condenser coil, is part of the heat pump or air conditioner. Typically, this unit will be installed outside the house. A compressor is the most important part of the climate control system. Only by compressing the air is it possible to transfer the heat from a lower temperature air to warmer air. But instead of compressing the air itself, a refrigerant with high compression ability works as the medium for transferring heat. A fan blows air over the compressor to distribute the heat and cool the refrigerant more rapidly.