I thought that I would add to this with the following info.,
I have been running the heater, set at 44 deg, for several days now. I have a smart meter and can log into the electric co's website and see my usage. Here are some representable charts, The first chart was last week when I turned on the heat when I went our to work. There was a thermostat on the heater set for ~60 IIRC, normally the heater would turn off with temp down low at about 50 deg and continued to rise up to ~ 60 deg as the temps stabilized throughout the garage, This was before the installation of the new thermostat.
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the Monday is with no heat or work in the garage.
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Wed and Thursday is with heat. All days were close to 44 deg in the garage. On the coldest Winter days I have seen temps going to ~26 deg in the garage. I chose 44 to see what the energy usage was costing me to maintain the temperature. However, the temps outside have been mild.
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We are coming up to a week worth of normal Winter weather with temps in the single digits overnight. sub zero on next Saturday. I wonder how those will affect my electricity.
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