Heated windscreens
Our heated windscreens are powered by thin tungsten filament wires suspended in the PVB coating between the two panes of laminated glass.
Electric heating
Finn Lamex provides electrically heated windscreens, an effective way to get rid of snow, frost, or fog on the windscreen. This is a great security factor on the road. Compared to relying on a fan — which only affects a limited area — or heating the entire bus, it’s more efficient and sustainable for the windscreen itself to eliminate ice and fog.
Electric windscreen heating maximizes demisting of the windscreen, which is especially important for commercial vehicles. When passengers board, moisture builds up, causing the windscreen and windows to start misting.
How heated windscreens work?
Our heated windscreens are powered by thin tungsten filament wires suspended in the PVB coating between the two panes of laminated glass. These wires are supplied with power by the vehicle battery, and typically invisible to the naked eye – although they can be spotted by close examination.
Speed
Heated windscreens defrost and defog glass faster – on both the inner and outer glass surface – to get your drivers moving. This translates to reduced overhead for your business, tighter adherence to timetables, and a better customer experience.
Safety
Heated windscreens increase visibility. A heated windscreen distributes heat evenly from the windscreen’s core, warming in a wide horizontal band across the viewing area of the glass. This avoids the slowly-growing window of visibility caused by a defroster – and the faster and more evenly ice and fog is removed from the windscreen surface, the sooner the driver has full vision of the road.
Effiency
Standard laminated windscreens rely on external heat from the defroster, but this results in a loss of efficiency as some of the heat escapes into the air. Heated windscreen can use all of its energy to defrost the windscreen, while the heater can use all of its energy to warm the vehicle cabin. As a result, the cabin is also heated more efficiently.