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 Great For A Small Room October 17, 2005
C. Richardson (New Jersey)
11 out of 12 found this review helpful
If you have a small room, it will heat it efficiently. Just make sure to close the door. It won't work for a larger room, but the price is so cheap, you can get a few for each room. It does the job for the price. It would heat up a child's room perfectly on those cold winter nights. It is also safe and if tipped over, it will turn off automatically. Not bad for the price. You may even find it cheaper than the price here at Amazon. I purchased it at Linens & Things for $24.99 (sale price) The regular price was $29.99.
 Doesn't seem to have a strong output January 23, 2005
Maria S. (Glen Burnie, MD United States)
9 out of 15 found this review helpful
Well, there is a reason I am here on Amazon.com shopping for a heater for my dad. And that is because he currently has this one.
Before I trash the heater entirely, however, let me say that the room we are trying to heat was once a single-car garage. It has been converted (complete with fireplace (which he can't use since he is on oxygen)) but I don't think people who converted it did much in the way of insulation. It FEELS like a converted garage a lot of the time. So maybe it would be difficult for ANY heater to heat this room properly.
BUT.... it still doesn't seem to do what it claims.
We have tried to use the 360 degree feature, and only feel a bit of a change with the warm air being felt ABOVE the unit -- rather than in front.
When it is on front-heating, I have placed my hand in front of it trying to feel the hot air blowing.
I CAN feel hot air coming out -- but it just isn't coming out strong enough to make a difference unless you are a foot away from it.
When the temperature was about 40 or 50 outside, and he was using it just to take the chill out of the room, it worked fine.
He even had to turn it off at times because the room got too warm.
However, once the outside temperature truly became winter-like, going below 30 (and currently in the teens) the unit isn't doing the job at all.
It doesn't even warm the room if left on all night.
It just isn't powerful enough.
So, to nutshell this: If you just need something to take the edge off a room, this might work well.
If you need something to actually HEAT your room under cold conditions, it can't handle it.
Thermostat a real problem February 10, 2006
Dak
6 out of 6 found this review helpful
The concept of this heater looked great, but it has one fatal flaw--the thermostat. It seems to think the room is much hotter than it actually is. As a result, even at the highest setting it shuts off after a short period of time. Yet the room is still cold--and there's no way to turn the heater back on. You basically have to wait 20 minutes for the heater to "cool down" enough to work again. We basically don't use it, and we went out and bought another.
it's melted itself November 6, 2007
Kritiya Somboonkulavudi (CA)
6 out of 6 found this review helpful
It's warm for small room. I used it for almost 7months and, one day it "melted" itself :( may be because I turn on it too long...
Melted itself open November 7, 2007
Elaina Wolfe (Pittsburgh, PA)
6 out of 6 found this review helpful
I bought this heater last year and used it all winter very happily. It worked very well and kept my computer room comfy and warm.
This year i brought it out to use, plugged it in and on the second day it started turning off on me after about 3 min of use. I unplugged it and let it cool off since it got amazingly hot after that 3 min and i discovered the black, round casing with the holes in it that goes around the top, had melted itself open in the back.
I loved this heater last year but can only give it 2 stars due to longevity.
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