Choosing a Heater for Your Far Infrared Sauna

What are the criteria for choosing a good far infrared sauna heater? For a start, you may want to ask yourself few questions about the heater itself. Perhaps, the most critical question to ask is the surface temperature of the far infrared heater. The surface temperature is a common denominator used to calculate infrared ray or emission.

The lower the infrared heater surface temperature, the longer is the infrared wave generated. So, if you want an effective and a good infrared heater for your far infrared sauna, look for a heater with low surface temperature. Unlike traditional steam sauna, where the heating elements raised the air temperature of the sauna room which in turn causes the user to sweat, a far infrared sauna relied on its heater to heat the body directly. It is also important that you install both a front and a back heater.

Many far infrared sauna rooms omitted the front infrared heaters because they look ugly. This causes the sauna room to lose its effectiveness. A good infrared sauna room should have both the front and the back infrared heaters. Without a front infrared heater, you cannot effectively detoxify your body. The location where you put the infrared heater in your far infrared sauna room is also important. Far infrared heat or ray does not travel very far, and it should be strategically placed within the sauna room to ensure that the infrared ray is directed towards your body core, and not your elbow or anywhere else.

The worse kind of arrangement is having the far infrared sauna heater warming only the air of the sauna room. In a small sauna room, perhaps the location of the heater may not be that significant. However, in large sauna room, the position of the far infrared heater plays an effective role.

To have a good quality infrared heater, look for those with a large flat panel. With a large panel far infrared heater, the surface temperature will be lower, and hence emitting better infrared ray. The other advantage for choosing a flat panel infrared heater is that, the infrared ray does not need to depend on a reflector to reach your body. Having a reflected heat definitely degrades the far infrared heat.

Hence, making an effective far infrared sauna room involves more than just putting some heaters in a sauna room. The types of heater and the placement of the heater is crucial to produce an effective far infrared sauna, hence allowing its users to tap the maximum benefits of sauna.

What about the material of the far infrared heater? Research had shown that an effective material for far infrared heater should be made from ceramic. Be careful that some infrared heater are manufactured for industrial use, and is not necessary suitable to be made as the infrared heater for your far infrared sauna room.

Highly-efficient ceramic produces far infrared wavelengths that your body will absorb directly as heat. It should also has low electromagnetic field radiation. Highly polished infrared reflector returns 90% of the infrared energy from the rear of the emitter back into the room, resulting in almost twice the number of infrared rays available for absorb.