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convector heater BrE

Cool air comes into contact with the convector, which is at floor level.

If the radiator or convector has a cover, remove and clean it as well.

Check the pipes where they enter each radiator or convector.

After a few moments, the radiator or convector should feel hot along its entire length.

Also call for service if the radiator or convector feels only lukewarm.

The simple convector models are very occasionally seen.

Convector heaters are also very useful, and can sometimes be more convenient than a radiator.

A far more efficient option is a fire which has a convector firebox to boost output.

"Geraldo's been breathing your air for the last three days, via convector.

Before replacing any covers, feel each radiator or convector to make sure it is heating along its entire length.

'I've been looking at some of those paraffin convector heaters.

What would be the best type of heating - heater/stats or to heat the room with a wall-mounted convector?

Convector models work by drawing in cold air which is then warmed in a convection-chamber.

The term "convector" refers to a class of devices in which the source of heat is not directly exposed.

The radiator or convector should operate normally.

The air is warmed by passing over the fins and rises upward into the room through vents in the front panel of the convector cover.

The sleek Retro Convector space heater has a stainless steel finish and two settings.

Check main steam traps every year and radiator or convector traps every two years.

PC202S: a 2 kilowatt convector controlled by two switches.

To service a malfunctioning steam vent, shut off the radiator or convector by turning the supply valve clockwise.

"The Toynbee Convector" is a book about time travel by Ray Bradbury.

To bleed a hot-water radiator or convector, be sure the furnace has reached normal operating temperature and the circulator is running.

Via a decentralized underground convector the external air is sucked in from the space between the façades, conditioned and fed back into the offices.

"The Toynbee Convector"

But you can provide heating for a room like this by using underfloor convector heaters, connected by a normal central heating system.

Convector heaters are also very useful, and can sometimes be more convenient than a radiator.

'I've been looking at some of those paraffin convector heaters.

But you can provide heating for a room like this by using underfloor convector heaters, connected by a normal central heating system.

At the same time it introduced electrical convector heaters and panel heaters (ceramic heaters).

If you do use an electric convector heater, make sure you get one suited to humid atmospheres - possibly a greenhouse heater.

Convector - a type of heating and cooling element: (see Radiator, Convector heater)

The conversation now became highly technical, touching on the advantages of electric and paraffin convector heaters, oil fired central heating, open fires, boilers, and the like.

It can also be used to fire a wide range of appliances - boilers, radiant and convector heaters - which burn at between 70 and 85% efficiency.

There's quite a lot to choose from: electric fan assisted or convector heaters, free-standing stoves, oil heaters, calor gas fires.

Depth varied depending on the power of the convector heater, being either 11.5 cm (4 inches) for 1 kilowatt convection units, or 14 cm (5 inches) for 2 kilowatt.

There was a two-tier electric fire in the cavernous bedroom my father used and an undersized convector heater in the oak panelled room where he sat at his desk in the evenings.

The move towards much more efficient methods of heating like convector heaters right on through to central heating, so that you could use more just that back parlour where the cooker was that kept the place warm.

We can't get a definite identification from the woman who handled the sale -she was doing it for a friend whose marriage had just collapsed -but she can confirm that the convector heater mentioned in the advertisement was the model in the catalogue we showed her.