User Guide

INTRODUCTION

The Calorique Radiant Ceiling Heating (RCH) or Warm Floors System

installed in your home is the finest heating system available. The

RCH system is located above your home’s ceilings gently heating the

occupants and furnishings in your home with even, comfortable

radiant heat that never overheats the air — this results in large

energy savings over any other electric-based heating system. The

Warm Floors system is located about 2 inches / 50 mm below the

floor surface and gently warms the floor for the ultimate in luxury

and comfort. Both systems are completely solid state so there are no

moving parts to wear out, and the sealed construction means the

system doesn’t require cleaning.

This operating manual is provided to help you understand how your

system works, provide tips to ensure that it keeps operating at peak

efficiency and to instruct technicians working near the system how to

safely deal with the system.

HOW THE SYSTEM WORKS

The Calorique RCH and Warm Floors systems work just like the sun.

When the thermostat calls for power, the heating panels warm the

ceiling or floor surface which then give off infra-red heat, the same

type of heat that you feel on a cool spring day — although the air is

cool, the infra-red heat from the Sun keeps you warm.

As the infra-red heat rays radiate throughout the room, they

uniformly warm the objects providing an even, comfortable heat

while leaving the mass of air at a lower temperature. There is no

need to directly over-heat the air because it is less effective at

keeping occupants warm. This is the opposite of how a conventional

forced hot air or baseboard heating system works — in other types

of heating systems the large mass of air in a home is heated while

the objects (and especially the outside walls) remain relatively cool.

These cool objects literally suck the heat out of the occupants,

making them feel cold.