The Herschel Select XLS Infrared Mirror Heater offers sleek looks, combining stylish function with an unprecedented level of heating comfort and energy efficiency. Forming part of our high performance frameless Select XLS range, which incorporates our integrated SMART-R receiver, the Herschel Select XLS Mirror heater provides the very latest in smart heating. You choose whether to control your heating from a thermostat (sold separately), through the convenience of an App, or you can even use voice control when used with Alexa or Google Assistant.
Infrared mirror heater panels can be placed in humid areas such as bathrooms without any condensation forming on the glass, whilst also chasing away the causes of moisture that convection-based heaters actually encourage (hot air moving over a cold surface).
Due to the infrared heating process, the mirrors heat up objects in the room rather than the air. This helps keep walls and fittings warm, dry and free of mould.
All units are made with Mirrored Safety Glass and incorporate Easy-Fix mounting, manufactured from the highest quality materials under strict quality control and are guaranteed for 5 years. Please note that due to the infrared technology, the Select XLS mirror has a darker tint than standard (non heater) silver mirrors.
There are two options (sold separately) for operating your XLS Mirror. Choose from a battery operated controller (T-BT) or a mains / USB powered controller (T-MT). T-MT has in built Wifi allowing APP and voice control via Alexa and Google Assistant. Select your thermostat below.
What is Infrared?
Human & Animal sense of comfort has evolved from Radiant heat from the sun. Our skin has evolved to reflect and prompt us to avoid the sun's hottest waves in the hundreds to thousands of degrees Centigrade – called Middle and Near (or Medium and Shortwave) infrared.
But the waves we find most comfortable are those that are absorbed by our environment and radiated back in the tens of Degrees Centigrade – called Far (or Longwave) infrared. Making our environment a thermal store during the day and continuing to release that heat long after the sun has set. It is no surprise then, that it is Far Infrared that our skin, plus common materials in our environment absorb and emit the most efficiently.
It is radiant heat that is biologically the most significant (60%) to our body’s sense of comfort. Convection (movement of hot or cold air) factors only 15% in our feeling of comfort, with evaporation and conduction of heat from our bodies to our clothing or other objects accounting for the remaining 25%.
Radiant heat is most keenly sensed from the top of our bodies downwards (no surprise in evolutionary terms) and is also most readily lost from the top of our bodies.
We were built primarily to absorb or emit radiant heat. With Far infrared is the biologically most significant wavelength as it is the most efficiently absorbed by the water in our skin.
The electromagnetic spectrum Infrared is a wave band in the electromagnetic spectrum, coming just after the colour “Red”, which is how it gets its name. It is energy, it doesn’t become “heat” until it comes into contact with an object and the energy transfers into it.
Like ripples in a pond, the waves emanating from a source (the heater) until they touch an object, at which point the energy either:
Transmits into the object (i.e. it is “Absorbed”) – this is the property we want with our heater; Is bounced back from the object (i.e. it is “Reflected”); Continues its journey onwards (i.e. it is “Transmitted”) until the energy is eventually entirely dissipated into the environment.
This makes Infrared a very different form of Heat Transfer than warming the air, which has poor absorption qualities – mostly dependent on levels of moisture, which causes a different issue; “transmits” only poorly unless mechanically forced (e.g. by a fan) and also transfers retained heat poorly back into an environment.
Infrared is not ultraviolet and doesn’t possess any of the properties of Ultraviolet.
The radiant temperature of our environment always dominates our sense of comfort, not air temperature. In winter our environment is “cold walls” and in summer our environment is “hot walls”. Our bodies primarily react to this – emitting our own body heat out to the cold walls in winter, and absorbing heat energy from them in summer.
If we choose to regulate our comfort by warming or cooling air, then that air temperature must be sufficient to transfer its heat to us and it must be in motion. If you stop either of those (i.e. turn off the heater), then you’re back to feeling the effect of the radiating environment on you. So any heater that heats air has to be “on” to be effective and you’re only massaging a symptom of a problem. If you have a heater on the other hand that heats the environment, then you’ve dealt with the basic problem, put energy into the environment which then radiates back for a period even when the heater is off.
Think of it this way: if air temperature defines our level of comfort, then why is an air temperature of 21 comfortable in winter, but an air temperature of 17 comfortable in summer? (And what happens if you turn off that warm or cold air…?)
This is the basis for the effectiveness of Infrared Heaters over heaters that simply warm air.
Infrared Advantages
Infrared heating has the following advantages over convection:
higher efficiency
Split heat pumps (or reversible air-conditioners) have become very popular globally recently, on the main selling point that their energy conversion ratio is 1:3 or better even in very cold or very hot climates, offering one solution that meets both your winter and summer comfort needs with high energy-efficiency.
However, there are financial and quality-of-life reasons homeowners should consider using Herschel Infrared for their heating solution (and a lower-cost cooling system such as Evaporative Coolers for their summer needs).
Financial Considerations
When the total costs of owning a heat pump (as a heater) versus Herschel Infrared are compared over the lifetime of either solution, Herschel Infrared works out the cheaper year on year. Why is this?
We haven’t factored in the lifetime costs for Evaporative cooling as the alternative to heat pumps in the summer if you were using Infrared for your heating in the winter. The purchase and installation costs for Eco Cooling plus Infrared are still cheaper than the cost to buy and install heat pumps, but the heat pump will win on operating costs. You would be advised to take out a maintenance contract for your Evaporative Cooling which will level the playing field there with heat pumps, but life expectancy is longer because you are running the heat-pump year-round and the Eco Cooling just in summer.
Quality of life differences
There is a significant quality of life differences between split heat pumps and Infrared heating:
Frame: Frameless
Rear: Aluminium sheet with Herschel Easy-Fix mounting system
Cable: 1.8m power cable
Voltage: 230-240V, 50/60 Hz
Installation: Wall mounted
Protection: IP44.
Quality & Safety
Herschel is a global market leader in infrared heating and is the largest and longest established manufacturer and supplier of premium quality infrared heaters in Australia.
We offer the widest range of energy efficient slimline infrared heating panels for homes, stylish outdoor heaters and high performance commercial heaters.
Warmer, longer, for less; The future of heating – TODAY
HERSCHEL’S LEGACY
We are building on Herschel’s legacy and are pioneering the use of Far Infrared to heat people and buildings in more efficient, effective, stylish and comfortable ways than many traditional forms of heating.
We call it “Comfort Heating”
Our range of Far Infrared heaters is the most comprehensive in the world. We have high quality heaters to suit almost any application and, combined with our control systems, are at the forefront of the revolution in heating.