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Interesting - this was $53 at Buy.com yesterday.
These heaters make the room really dry and awful. Skip it and get Delonghi's oil-filled radiators, they're compact and fantastic.
The oil-filled radiators give off a big stink. Supposedly goes away after time, but some complain that it persists.
I agree about the oil-filled radiators giving problems. I've never had a ceramic one, though. Despite making things dry, does it get the job done?
Stink from the paint; the oil radiators I have used in the past lose their smell after a day.
Barley fit in the box. Had to remove both internal hard drives and the cooling fan. An oil-filled unit sounds even more problematic.
#6 I hope that you did not put this inside your PC.....
Oil-filled is the way to go. I recently purchased a Delonghi TRD0715T one and didn't have any problems with smell - even when new. Unit even has a timer on it for cycling on and off.
What I don't understand is why you would need a remote for a personal heater.... I've had experience with ceramic heaters and I loved them. I don't understand what #2 is talking about, but then again I seem to be oblivious to the humidity levels of a room (I'm never bothered by them) so I wouldn't care. I just like being warm.
These things don't actually warm up a room very well. Actual temp increases are very small.
Any painted metal heater may stink when new, but that is better than a plastic heater that warps and yellows over time.
A ceramic or bare wire element heater does not make the room any more dry than any other type of heater. Nor does a central heating system, but on a central unit you have the option of a humidifier on it.
The main benefit of an oil filled heater is to spread out the heat, so no one part gets exceptionally hot meaning heater itself lasts longer, less of a hazard heating up anything adjacent to it too much, and a little more even heating of the room it's in. Towards that end you'd want the opposite of a "compact" oil heater, the best type is the long baseboard or tall old-fashioned radiator looking type.
All 1500W heaters will produce an equal amount of heat. Seldom are heaters higher than 1500W because that's in line with what typical low cost home wiring and outlets can support without hazzards or tripping a breaker when something else that uses a fair amount of current is turned on.
You'll be paying almost twice as much to get the remote control feature, digital timer and dust filter. All it really needs for ideal use is a time-of-day disable feature and an accurate thermostat with some wiggle time so it's not cycling on and off every 3 minutes which reduces lifespan even on a ceramic.
Lastly, although having the control/display on top seems handy, they really ought to have put it under the heating element instead of on top of it.
this thing costs about 1$ a minute to run
If average power cost were $0.10 per KWH,
($0.10/KWH) * 1500W = $0.15 an hour.
(15 cents/hour) / (60 min./hour) = 0.25 cents a minute.
Better check your math there dave_c
$15/hr = $0.25/min
Remote control space heater huh? Doesn't quite have the sex appeal of a remote control fireplace.
$15/hr = $0.25/min
Read it again, 15 cents an hour.
check your math...
0.15/hr = 0.0025/min
0.15/hr = 0.0025/min
LOL
The funny part is I mistyped a different part of the equation and neither of you picked up on that, but you both tried to correct the part that was right.
Re-read it, note that I wrote cents. Nobody would say "that's zero point zero zero two five dollars" instead of using the closest to whole number monetary unit for the answer.
($0.10/KWH) * 1500W = ($0.10/1000WH)*1500W=$0.15/H
($0.10/KWH) * 1500W = ($0.10/1000WH)*1500W=$0.15/H