How is an electric fireplace with a flame effect

Conventional electric heaters have long been known to everyone, but a completely different thing is an electric fireplace with a flame effect. The flame is cold, it is created thanks to a couple in combination with modern visualization technologies. The result is the effect of a real fire with smoke that comes from the “burning” firewood in the firebox.

Yesterday, the best models imitated fire, showing it on the screen, but will such an imitation create a real effect of the presence of fire in the fireplace? Will not create. If you look at the screen from the side, the artificiality of the fire will become apparent, and the whole idyll will be violated.

The situation is different with fireplaces, where the illusion of flame is created precisely by a steam generator with the correct illumination with halogen or LED lamps. Such a fireplace will provide realistic and voluminous flames with diffusing smoke. It is about such fireplaces, about their device, that will be discussed in this article.

Of course, the function of a fireplace with a flame effect is primarily decorative. But some models will even warm. The built-in electronics very accurately simulates a fire dancing on wood, maintains the correct temperature conditions, so that the spectacle is truly pacifying, so that cosiness comes into the room.

It’s very convenient that you can control the flame intensity, backlight, heating mode - you can with remote control. There is always the opportunity to turn on sound: crackling logs, the sound of fire dancing on logs .. Such a fireplace will certainly create coziness, warm if necessary in the yard, if it’s winter, or will allow you to enjoy the peaceful view of burning logs in summer.

Today it is electric fireplaces with steam generators that give the most realistic effect of all electric fireplaces on the market.

The main function of the steam here is to reproduce the aesthetic effect of burning logs. At the same time, the steam in the fireplace does not work like in a humidifier, since its amount is accurately dosed enough to get the most realistic picture, so such a fireplace does not affect the overall humidity in the room.

Fill the water, plug the appliance into a power outlet, and the fireplace works. This can be a free-standing fireplace or a built-in fireplace.

The steam generator has two compartments, in the first there is a steam generator directly, in the second - a water tank. If the water runs out, the steam generator sensor activates and the system shuts down. The steam is cold, does not burn, while the effect of the flame spreads across the entire width of the furnace, where decorative logs are laid. One full refueling with water is enough for continuous operation of the fireplace for more than a day.

There is a valve at the bottom of the steam generator reservoir, and water is dosed through it. This regulates the intensity of the steam supply to the logs. Lamps through a light filter illuminate the bottom of the clouds of steam, giving the fire a characteristic shade and simulating the natural movement of the flame.

The heated steam rises, passes through the logs, and in appearance it looks like real tongues of flame, that is, it creates the impression of firewood actually burning in the firebox. Since the bottom backlight is stronger than the top, the upper clubs of the vapor are highlighted weaker, and the illusion of smoke is obtained.

As soon as the fireplace is turned on, the steam generator starts to work first, then water starts to be dosed, and after a while steam appears. So the steam clubs begin, passing through a special diffuser, rise up, and the backlight completes the creation of the image of a real fire.

The more powerful the lamp and the more there are, the more brightly the flame is highlighted.And even in daylight, with a certain setting, the flame will be quite bright, it will be visible. That is, such a fireplace can be used for aesthetic enjoyment both in the dark and in daylight. When the steam intensity is adjusted, the picture changes smoothly, and the illusion of real fire is not broken.

So, the main elements of a steam fireplace are a firebox with logs, a steam generator and halogen or LED lamps.

These elements are installed each in its place. Steam is formed in the plastic reservoir of the steam generator, which will become a flame with smoke. Near the tank there is a board for fixing the lamps, it is under the logs. The tank is secured with rotary latches. From the storage tank, water is automatically supplied to the steam generator through the valve.

The steam generator is a chrome cylinder with a wire, it is installed in the landing hole on the side of the pallet. The function of a steam generator is to turn water into fog through high-frequency membrane vibrations.

Lamps for illuminating steam are equipped with light filters so that clubs shimmer in colors from red to orange and yellow. The use of halogen lamps gives an advantage: the heat generated by the lamps heats the particles of steam, causing them to move all the time, and an extremely natural illusion of flame is obtained across the entire width of the furnace.

To mix the steam, there is a diffuser located on a plastic tank and secured with latches. Thanks to the diffuser, the steam does not flow evenly, it mixes up all the time, and the movement of the “tongues of flame” becomes chaotic and even more natural.

The more intensely the flame is tuned, the faster the water is consumed, and here the volume of the storage capacity plays an important role, which differs in different models. On average, an electric fireplace with a tank completely filled with water lasts 6-12 hours, but on some models the tank is full enough for 1.5 days.

Decorative logs are plastic, and plastic is not ordinary here - it scatters the light. To make the fire flicker between the woods, to really break out between them, the logs are stacked with a distance, and in some places are transparent. Lamps during the operation of the fireplace continuously illuminate them from below.

In order for the fireplace to serve for a long time and in good condition, it will require periodic care. Wipe the lamps, wipe the fireplace from the inside, remove dust so that it does not rise with the steam. To do this, a brush for cleaning comes with a fireplace. If your water is hard, cleaning will be required more often. In addition, do not forget to fill in clean water on time.