1. About Your HotZone™ Heater
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Congratulations on purchasing a Schaefer HotZone™ Electric Infrared Heater. Your heater should give you
many years of maintenance-free comfort.
Unlike forced air heaters, HotZone™ heaters have no moving parts and warm people and objects, but not the
air, with infrared radiation.
HotZone™ heaters are the highest intensity gas and electric infrared heaters on the market today and have a
patented, lobster eye inspired, compound reflective lens that focuses and directs the infrared energy into a beam
(or a spot). These lenses are lightweight aluminum grids that look like a four-walled honeycomb structure and
are capable of magnifying without overheating.
Because HotZone™ heaters focus and direct the infrared energy into a beam:
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HotZone™ heaters can be installed out of the way of people and equipment
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The radiant intensity is much less sensitive to distance from the heater (your head doesn't cook while
your feet freeze)
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They deliver between three and five times as much infrared energy to the spot, compared to a similar
powered, unfocused high intensity infrared heater
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They will raise the surface temperature of a 25 square foot area by 20° with a single 3000 watt heater
mounted 10 feet above the target
Plan your installation "with the result in mind" by identifying the area you want heated and how much
temperature increase you need. Imagine the heater as a kind of floodlight and place it so as to cover your target
area with enough heat.
Thermal comfort solutions using Schaefer's HotZone™ heaters and appropriate heater controls:
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Can reduce the energy cost for the same thermal comfort level (apparent temperature) by 30% to 50%
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Help to earn points towards your building's LEED Certification
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Are easy and cost effective to implement in new or existing facilities
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Can compensate for the thermal comfort deficiencies of the central heating system when no other
heating technology can
Electric HotZone™ heaters come in 1500, 3000 and 5000 watt capacities, and have many voltage options in
order to accommodate installation sites with existing wiring and to minimize the expense of new installations.
The different voltage options allow for a variety of heater controls including on/off, staging and others.
All HotZone™ heaters have a variety of options and accessories summarized in the Options, Accessories and
Control chart. Options have to be ordered with the heater, as they are part of the heater while accessories are
additional items that are individually ordered.
HotZone™ electric heaters are listed with ETL and ETLc (for Canada) by ITS and are approved for use in dry
and wet locations throughout the US and Canada.
