are electric heaters essentially short circuits?

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I was looking at an electric heater and it seems to be just some red hot wire and a fan, how can it get so hot without triggering the circuit breaker? Is it a big load? Is it something like the little filament on a lightbulb?

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No they are essentially resistors and filament lightbulbs are the same – https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Resistor

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