At Mor Electric Heating we have grown our sales/stock of Infrared Heaters, Roof and Gutter Heating Cable, Pipe Heating Cable and Comfort Heaters significantly. We needed to expand our stock shelves, boxing and receiving areas again, which were unheated. It would not be practical to heat the entire warehouse area since it is not insulated and is technically cold storage with an approximately 40 foot inside peak of the roof. So we are focusing on spot heating our working areas/stations. We decided those areas will need to be spot heated. Depending on where you are standing at the workstations, the apparent temperature is approximately 25-50 degrees warmer than the actual air temperature.
We needed to install more infrared heaters, our first install was during a 2010 expansion of our shipping area when we chose to use four SALPHAH2-30240S (3.0kW 240Volt) because the reflector pattern, long life and 3,000 watts each (12 kW total) is well suited for that 20×20 area and 10-12 foot mounting height.
We had some challenges with the available mounting options but ended up with a great system for our needs. We had to hang two of them from the rafters with 25 feet of chains! We set the height of one of the heaters as low as possible (10-1/2 feet) while still being able to roll our ladder underneath it.
On the other side of the shipping area we were able to mount the heaters on the wall and from shorter chains:
We had plenty of 240 volt power available and despite the installation requiring a long run of conduit for the new heaters and controls the electricians quickly had it up and running..
To spot heat the end of our long center walkway we used one
SALPHAH2-40240S 4kW 240V Silver Heater:
And to spot heat each end of our cut to length heating cable spooling area we used two
SALPHAH2-40240S 4kW 240V Silver Heaters:
The five new heaters are controlled by the Solaira SMaRT30-DV 120/208-240V 30Amp Variable Control:
We might just now have one of the single largest electric heat distributor warehouses in the country. Because we are simply spot heating with electric infrared heaters we are highlighting the effectiveness of electric infrared heaters.
This application utilizes the benefits of spot heating in a large warehouse without having to heat the entire warehouse which would be very costly in this region of the country.
