Flower pot heaters to die for; BUT won't kill you 

I really appreciate you mentioning helping other people in need. excellent idea. sometimes we forget and we do need a reminder. I'm going to go out and collect blankets and distribute them

Have you considered replacing the halogen bulbs with infra-red bulbs. I use 150 watt IR bulbs on our farm to keep the chickens warm in the winter and they are rather inexpensive. I'd bet that you get greater heat output since you would be wasting less energy producing visible light and more of it is being produceded in the longer wavelength end of the spectrum that is responsible for generating heat. Also, are you familliar with peltier plates, they are used in thermoelectric coolers. If you apply power to them one side gets hot and the other cold, but the inverse works aswell, if you apply heat to one side and a heat sink the the other they will generate power. Not a lot of power but enough to power a fan to move the air through the flower pot heater. You can get these peltier plates on Ebay pretty cheap, I have about a dozen of them. Your video has given me food for thought and I thought I'd return some of the idea's that sprang from it. I admire your willingness to help others and to encourage others to do the same. God Bless

Best idea that I've seen thus far for clay pot heaters. The idea of using candles just doesn't appeal to me, fire hazard, house pets could and would eventually knock heater down when I doze of watching the tele. Well done gifting wood to folks in need. Thanks. Sam.

I'm just so glad you showed us light bulbs under the terracotta pot, but if you don't have electric they ain't gonna work.

Thank you for addressing the needs of others!!!

I have watched a couple of your videos. Liked your innovation, but the reason I subscribed was because of the compassion you've shown for others.

Nice video. Try to use infra red lamp. They produce a lot of heat. They r used inside car painting booth to dry/cook car paint. Make sure to use lamp housing (or base, or fitting?) made from porcelain to prevent melting. I use them in my painting booth. Sorry for bad English.

Great video. Love your idea and your suggestions to help others! Thank you and Stay warm! 🌹

Hi EOSE....... Love your videos, they are so imaginative & something inside of me says that you are soon going stumble on something very significant indeed. God bless John Larkin. Southampton

Hello. I only encountered a flowerpot heater a few days ago, in a survival hacks book that I was reading. Now, I am finding them all over youtube. Perhaps, Jung was right about Synchronicity after all! My comment is first to say thank you for the explanation of how infra-red provides the heat from these mechanisms. I believe that some of the very old churches we have in the UK use a similar system to warm the congregation without heating the whole barn-sized volume of air. When I first encountered these, they were not efficient and even though I can cope with cold more than most people, I never felt comfortably warmed. The old wooden floors did not seem to get much heat from the system, so sitting could chill you unless you had a thick coat or cushion and the stone floors remained icy and sucked the heat from your feet. The second reason for commenting is that, while I was reading the survival book primarily for fun and for yet more ways to start the family barbeques, I began to wonder if the terracotta pots could provide a source of heat during the blackouts that are predicted to impact the UK this winter. Your designs are obviously much safer than the tealight/candle versions, but they rely on the lamps as heat source and that means some sort of sustainable electrical supply, either from the house or building or from your vehicle. I believe that the terracotta lamps are inspired, in part, by the fact that an igloo can be heated by a whale oil lamp. This is because the igloo is relatively small and the compacted snow will melt and refreeze and reflect much of the heat back into the room. So, my question is - what would you do in a power-outage or blackout to provide heat to your home? For context, we live in a building where our living room is not at ground level, but up a flight of stairs - first floor in the UK, 2nd floor in the USA. Our bedrooms are one floor up again. So, the only easy means of access is the front door. We have no other external door. This meant, that when we first moved in, we were not allowed to keep our gas cooking stove and had to replace it with an electric hob and oven. (We now have gas, supplied, but no gas stove and no gas fire. Our central heating is via a gas boiler/water heater, but this requires electricity to power the pump.) We can obviously put the central heating on fairly high and then hope the radiators keep us warm during the power outage, but rising fuel costs make that prohibitive. I am also disabled and less mobile. In such a context, I am sorely tempted to use the traditional pot heater - standing on a heat-resistant surface and without the metal bar which apparently partially contributed to the boat fire you allude to. I would also use a candle or a small spirit stove in a tin, which is designed to produce enough heat to heat up a tin mug of coffee or even - with the larger size - a small cooking pan.

I watched this video and think there could be a potential fire hazard. The light housing and wiring are generally for certain watts due to how hot the bulbs get. With the heat coming out of this could melt the wiring and/or the light housing. May want to rethink this. I was a storage manager and tenants used very high watt light bulbs to see in their storage units. Many light housings were replaced due to overheating. The light housing indicates a certain watt light bulb to prevent damage.

I burn a lot of candles all my life, haven’t passed out yet 🤷‍♂️

I like this set up best thanks for sharing. good man

I love your RU-vid channel. This weekend I’m making your plant pot heater. I can’t wait to see how well it works. I live in Canada where it gets below 40 to 50 degrees in the winter. It’ll take a few of these to warm up one room but it’ll help with the heat bills. Keep up the great work

We live in different worlds. None of those contrivances would even delay freezing to death here.

Socialhack the 600W on the wall probably isn't heating the tile as much because heat and light is escaping the sides and top, whereas the table-top tile over the bulbs are directional so heat rises up into the tile.

Incandescents. I have hundreds of 40,60,75,100 watt-ers. Bought them back when I heard they were going to disappear. Hot.

I want a 50w heater that works like a magic. Tired of paying ridiculous electricity bills just to survive a winter.

I'm looking into this to heat my greenhouse. 12x30 poly covered. We only get to about -10 or so but would like to take the chill off for some of the newer plants. I was thinking of running a construction cord (it has like 10 light sockets on it) down the middle secured to a 2x4 so all the sockets face up and put a pot on each bulb. I can adjust the heat by the number of bulbs I have screwed in. Will this work do you think? My main questions are: Do I have to use halogen bulbs? Can I use regular incandescent bulbs? or the big red bulbs used to heat chicken coops? Should I be afraid of the bulbs exploding? And reading some comments about making sure the bulbs have the ceramic ends, right? Would love your feedback. Thanks for your time!

Using electricity seems to be defeating the purpose. Do you have any ideas for off grid heaters?

its a heat riser. the mass rising heated raidates. you could do a peltier heater with a fan to power it and blow heat off of it

Right on brother!

Hi thank you for the instructions. I was wondering how would “You” build one with out using electric. ?

Can you use incandescent bulbs say 75 Watts with ceramic bulb holders

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Your awesome!! Thank you.

You made an Easy Baker Oven.

Do you have a website that has the instructions ? I would most definitely love to try this out, so far it seems to be best idea.

What is the highest wattage I can use for the bones to not overheat the box all the wires are going into?

So do you think this would heat a studio apartment with a 8x15 room with attatched galley kitchen?

I think the point has been totally missed on this original concept??? All the lights run off electricity !! The whole point is if power is lost how can we generate heat for the home! So to me the candle concept is the most sensible option, bearing in mind during a power cut we have no access to electricity!!

Ok pretty cool idea using inferred I have just aquired a double garage and going to be running a waterless valeting and detailing center the plan is to have the whole garage fully off grid I have currently got a 500w power generator I'm using for lighting and charging stuff hoover drills etc now I'm wanting heating been looking at gas heaters but rather not and of course nothing will heat the space up electric due to requiring massive amounts of power .so I thought I have a gas hob I use for camping in there for boiling the kettle etc so maybe a pizza stone and fan do the trick lay the stone on top of the hob and the fan Infront to blow the heat around the room ? Any thoughts and recommendations would be great sorry this is a new RU-vid channel lost access to my main 😡

Whats the point ór the difference with just turning on the lamps without a pot covering it ? Same energy/Watts are emitted into the surroundings...

cool finding.thank you again for the videos. . with that much heat im sure your van will be nice and toasty.. How exactly does the terracotta absorb the heat better than the ceramic tiles? is it the visible light it is absorbing or just the heat coming off the surface of the bulbs that it is absorbing.? I am wondering if painting the inside top of the pot black with hi temp ceramic paint where the hole is inside . would it absorb more of the light and convert that into more heat or would it block the effects?

those fittings are called ballasts

What if you had only the bulbs sticking up through an insulated plate. Would that be safer as far as wiring overheating ECT?

just get cheap radiant electric heater. they are 100% efficient because converting ALL electricity to heat. Yours are converting just a small part of electricity to heat and big part to light. With the same wattage.

Where do you get those lights? if you don't know, what is the type. . .as in. . .if I were to do a Google search, how would I find that kind of socket for the halogen bulb?

I want to use this in my car how much energy does it take to run? I can buy a chargeable battery pack 1000w 2000-5000w what wiuld I need??

I guess my question is what is the outside, and room ambient temps? You have three heaters going in what seems like a small space and are still wearing a sweater? I have no trouble having used a heat lamp to raise baby chicks that a light can put out substantial heat, but ??????????

I was hoping to find something I can run off DC power with a smallish solar panel (so skipping an inverter). That could heat house every day during day time.

Can we boil water with that setup?

Does the halogen bulb put out the most btu per watt for bulbs?

all those heaters and he still needs a sweater

Thinking about building one but I'm concerned about safety around my 4 year old granddaughter . Ideas on keeping warm but safe for her

With all that heat.......................................... He is wearing a sweater over the shirt LOL!

Common physics, any amount of energy used creates same btu, restricting or different setup create higher heat but if you open area same thing... btu is BTU

Spontaneous combustion has been known to start at 170 f,by a steam pipe over longterm exposure to a 2x4,Halogen lights have caused many deaths and should have been banned many years ago.The bulb can deliver the heat, but the plastic fixture or the conducrtors or wiring were not engineered to be enclosed in your betty crocker oven,High temp output is NOT a good sign.The plastic and wires and wood and conductors will char over a certain number of hours . 160 f should be close to the safe output limit for this stupidity.

Sorry but 80 watts inside that flower pot wouldn’t heat up the ceramic pot to 222f which is 105c as I’m doing the candle technique I have 10 candles at max burn so when the paraffin wax is melted each candle pushes out about 35 watts of heat and I can tell you my 22cm flower pot doesn’t get any hotter then 73c so your 80 watts of energy compared to my 350 watts of heat energy so your 222f doesn’t make sense not unless your using 4 x 80 watt bulbs and even then I’d be surprised if the pot reached your 222f or 105c

I find it difficult that an intelligent person such as yourself can believe this. Some electric fan heaters have settings of 2000, 1000 and 500 watts and you can feel the difference in heat output. If you were to reduce their output to 80 watts it would be just warm air which would not bring the ambient temperature of a small room up noticeably. No way will a flowerpot or any other mass increase heat output. This is of course my humble scientific based opinion.

80 watts is 80 watts. you cannot stick an 80 watt lamp in a flower pot and get 500 watts of heat. If it did work, people would make and sell them at Walmart.

Why electricity? What if you has no access to electricity?

Can't be too great - you are wearing a jumper

what if you will use halogen lamps inside the aluminium radiator, you know normal radiator used for heating sistem with water.

lol Brilliant. A light bulb heater for people with no power. lmao!

There is no way to get more heat than a candle got stored in the wax. Unless you got some plutonium candles. Get some wood and build a stove if winter is close

Ok, thermal energy from the lamps heats the flowerpot then the flowepot heats the room ....why use the flowerpot ? Thermal energy from the lamps is the same either you use the flowerpot or not ....

kinda defeats the purpose using electricity doesn't it?

All worthless if you lose your electricity temporarily.

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