I may have asked this before.
My office is heated by one of those oil-filled electric radiators, but the only spot I have for it is tucked into a corner.
It works a lot better at keeping things warm if I set a fan in front of it to circulate air. But that leaves me with a choice of either having the fan on all the time, or switching the fan on at the same time as the heater.
I've got the thing running off of a thermostat for a baseboard heater*, so I can turn the fan on and off with the heater. But what I'd like to do is have the fan on a delay, so that it keeps running for a couple of minutes after the power to the heater turns off, and, preferably, takes a couple of minutes to switch on.
Is there a small, easy to apply gizmo that can be used for this? I know they make thermal switches for exactly this sort of task in furnaces, but the ones I know of work off of the low-voltage supply to the furnace controller. Since I don't have that, I'd really like one that works off of the 120V going to the heater.
I could Google for it, but I suspect that I'd get the search terms wrong and waste a bunch of time -- so if all you give me is the _right_ Google terms, that should get me going.
- Yes, I know -- I'm essentially cobbling together a one-room furnace.