Category Archives: Warehouse Heaters

Infrared Heaters, New Products, Warehouse Heaters

New Product: TPI Corp. Fostoria FSS Series 208-480V Heavy Duty Single Flat Panel Emitter Infrared Overhead Heater – Chain suspension or rigid Mounting – Direct wire – Wire guard

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Effective October 1st, TPI is revamping its current models of MR series to the new innovative energy saving FSS series.

TPI is constantly making improvements to product quality, improving customer reliability & safety. Our channel of electrical products keeps evolving; Just like incandescent has now been replaced by energy efficient LED’s.

Our current MR series elements lasted just 5000 hrs. Our new innovative emitters will last 25,000 hours (5X as long). These new Flat panel emitters generate large amounts of radiant heat in a fairly concentrated area. The required wattage output using these new emitters is considerably less, yet achieving the same output – allowing for energy savings. (78.5% radiant efficiency vs 50%) .

The “New” FSS series (which replaces MR) revamp an old technology with a new one. Flat Panel emitters.

The benefits are uncompromised safety- no ground fault required- a $300 net adder, energy savings, and elements that are longer lasting (5x longer).

The new units cost on average is about the same when you take into consideration GFCI protection which was highly recommended. The new units do not require GFCI. Furthermore, they pay for themselves in the 1st heat season using less electricity ( Approx.: 30% energy savings) to get to the same heating capacity using less wattage.

 

https://morelectricheating.com/products/MANUFACTURERS/FOSTORIA/FSS.aspx

About Mor Electric Heating, Benefits of Electric Heating, Garage Heaters, Infrared Heaters, Warehouse Heaters

Case study of Warehouse Expansion and addition of Solaira Alpha Infrared Heaters/Controls

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.

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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:

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For our 2015 expansion we installed Solaira Infrared Heaters because of the great success we had in our 2010 expansion and the warehouse employees love the heaters. We went with the Alpha Series and their Smart Variable Control.
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..
For our new boxing area we used two SALPHAH3-60240B 6kW 240V Heaters:
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To spot heat the end of our long center walkway we used one SALPHAH2-40240S 4kW 240V Silver Heater:
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And to spot heat each end of our cut to length heating cable spooling area we used two SALPHAH2-40240S 4kW 240V Silver Heaters:

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The five new heaters are controlled by the Solaira SMaRT30-DV 120/208-240V 30Amp Variable Control:
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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.