Infrared Heaters
Stainless steel tube heaters for harsh conditions
Solaronics Heaters create heat with infrared rays, an energy form similar to the sun's rays warming the earth. The Tube Heater's highly polished stainless steel reflectors focus infrared energy that is converted into heat as it reaches absorptive objects such as equipment, concrete floors, and surfaces.
Heating a wash bay with forced air is a losing game: the door opens, the warm air leaves, and the furnace starts over. Infrared skips the air entirely. It warms floors, equipment, and vehicles directly, so the heat is stored in the building's mass and recovery after every door cycle is fast. In a tall, drafty, constantly-opening bay, that difference shows up on the fuel bill every month.
Built for harsh, wet, and corrosive conditions.
Why It Works
- 304L stainless steel rustproof design, engineered for wet conditions.
- Highly polished stainless reflectors focus IR energy.
- Heats objects, not air. Efficient in high-ceiling, drafty spaces.
- Ideal for car wash, truck wash, and industrial bays.
- Fast recovery after every door cycle.
- Three families to cover the whole building: tube heaters for the bay, hi-intensity units for spot and outdoor heat, and DoorJet at the opening itself.
Specification Highlights
- ▪ Tube heaters: 304L stainless combustion chamber, heat exchanger, butt-joined tubes, and brackets
- ▪ 4 inch tube diameter with heavy-duty 8" tube couplings
- ▪ Straight tube and U-tube configurations, single or dual stage
- ▪ AGA and CGA design certified; CSA International design certified to ANSI/CGA standards
- ▪ Safe direct spark ignition with 100% safety shut-off and a pre-purge cycle
- ▪ Three system validation lights visible from the floor
- ▪ Heavy-duty fan motors enclosed in a sealed burner, with controls isolated from combustion air
- ▪ Burner arrives fully assembled and tested, with simple chain mounting
- ▪ True Dual two-stage models match air and gas flows at both high and low fire, with a heavy-duty 12-gauge heat exchanger
- ▪ Warranty: 10 year limited on burner cores, combustion and heat exchanger tubes; 2 year limited on burner controls
Engineered for the Environment
- Infrared Heat Transfer
- Energy converts to heat at floors, equipment, and vehicles instead of escaping with the air.
- Stainless Construction
- The 304L stainless rustproof design covers the combustion chamber, heat exchanger, butt-joined tubes, and brackets, because a heater over a wash bay lives in the same fog the door does.
- Polished Reflectors
- Focused output puts the heat where the work happens, not in the rafters. Reflectors rotate independently so you can aim the heat at the work area.
- Built for Open Doors
- Radiant heat stored in the building's mass recovers quickly every time the bay cycles.
- Hi-Intensity Infrared Heaters
- For spot heating and outdoor or semi-open areas, with flexible inputs from 30,000 to 200,000 BTUH on natural or propane gas. Instant on, instant off, reaching full intensity within 30 seconds, with a wind-resistant stable flame. Single and two-stage models are available, and the second stage jumps to high fire on demand so moderate days run on low fire.
- Hi-Intensity Build
- Factory pre-wired, pre-piped, and tested, with a ceramic burner, seamless no-weld construction, a compact modular design with no moving parts, and 100% safety shut-off available.
- DoorJet Infrared Door Heater
- Stops the chills and wasted energy that hit every time an outside bay door opens. The in-rushing cold air is tempered by the DoorJet's heat surge, keeping the bay workable while the door is up.
- DoorJet Construction
- 16 ga 304 stainless steel casing, stainless steel burner baffle, heavy-duty axial flow fan, corrosion-resistant manifold, and a watertight enclosure with controls. Hot spark ignition, remote and summer/winter on-off switches, magnetic motor starter, and a high-temperature limit switch, running on economical natural gas.
Start your project
Stop paying to heat air that leaves
Tell us the bay dimensions, ceiling height, gas supply, and how often the doors cycle. We will help size an infrared package that keeps the space workable all winter, including a DoorJet at the opening if the door cycle is what is killing you, alongside the door package if you are doing both at once.
Ready for a door built for your conditions?
Our team will help you size, configure, and price the right system for your facility. No obligation.
Prefer to talk it through?
Call 800-233-1487Same line for quotes, parts, and service. Partial project info is a fine place to start.