Talk:Oil heater

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Safety and features. Is it wise to suggest that you can dry clothes etc on them, as far as I know it is not considered safe to dry clothes on any heater. 60.234.134.125 02:02, 12 June 2007 (UTC)

Efficiency. If I'm understanding this article correctly, its comparing electric oil heaters to electric fan heaters. Both of which use electricity to create heat, both at 100% efficiency (OK, the fan in the fan heater converts some of the electricity to kinetic energy, but in the order of 1% or less in general I think). Neither are using any kind of thermodynamic cycle to extract heat more efficiently from an external source (the oil reservoir is not an external heat source), which is the only electric-powered heating method I can think of that might have greater efficiency (in terms of energy used vs heating of the room) than the direct conversion of electricity to heat that both fan heaters and electric oil heaters provide. Drfrogsplat 16:38, 27 June 2007 (UTC)

Does somebody know what type of oil is typically used in these heaters? I did a brief search on the Internet using Google and Ask and none of the sites including the retailers discusses the type of oil used. JeremiahJohnson (talk) —Preceding comment was added at 16:49, 17 March 2008 (UTC)