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Customer Reviews
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Works Great!
I originally bought this while in Afghanistan to keep me warm during the -1 degree Farenheit nights. It worked wonderfully there and I was doubly pleased when I started using it at home during the winters. We live in an old brick home in DC and the downstairs is absolutely horrible at keeping heat in. My gas bills would usually run me $400 for at least two months during the winter. I broke this out when the temperature started cooling down and it had the whole first floor of my home warmed up by 2 degrees within minutes.
The only downsides are that the surface does get pretty hot and it emits a terrible smell for the first week after you initially take it out of the box and turn it on.
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So far so good
I used this to heat the baby's room before the heat was turned on in our building. It works well. It does smell a little when it's at a max temp so I use the min and its still hot enough.
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No better heat than this!
I purchased two of these radiator heaters last Fall and used them all through the heating season. They are wonderful. SO much better than any blower, convection, or ceramic heaters I've had - and I've had them all. Our 152 year old house has hot water (boiler) heat so we're used to a system that doesn't blow and dry out the air but with fuel oil prices as they have been for the past few years we just can't see heating this big old house with our furnace. We have a woodstove to heat the major portion of the house but our bedroom and utility room are cold due to being away from woodstove heat and are both drafty rooms to boot. These heaters worked so well to keep those two areas perfectly comfortable without the drying effect of blower or convection heat. For years we've struggled with noisy, drying space heaters that caused much stress due to fire hazards etc. Contrary to what one review said this "Safe Heat" heater is truly safe. There are no serious fire hazard warnings on this item because it does not get hot like a convection or coil heater. In fact, you can touch the radiator itself and it would not burn skin. I wouldn't sleep with ANY other space heater on in our bedroom (which made for cold nights before we had these heaters) but this heater is perfect for just that. It is truly not a fire hazard if you set it in a place that is recommended in the book that comes with it and follow the safety instructions which mainly say not to put objects on the heater itself. The reviewer that said it took up a lot of space may have been treating this heater like the other types of heaters but it's not necessary. This heater should be treated as a "heater" for sure but it's not going to radiate the kind of heat that would set things on fire unless they were laid on top of the heater where the heat radiates up and I'm not even convinced that would set anything on fire. The footprint it takes up on the floor is very small.
It is a completely different heater from the other types of space heaters.
One reviewer said it's not "fast enough" to warm the room. This IS NOT a heater you would turn on and off whenever you walk into/out of the area you want to heat. It works with a thermostat and if left "on" at the comfort level you desire you practically never have to touch the heater again, unless the weather gets extremely cold in which case you would turn the thermostat to a higher level. We found that these heaters are very cost efficient to leave on with thermostat set to our desired warmth. It's the same principle as you use with whole house heating - you don't turn your furnace off every time you leave home, you just turn the thermostat down.
I turn them down during the day and then up at night but leave them on so that we're not "starting from scratch" to heat up the areas.
Unlike other heaters that can't be left on safely without being monitored, this heater can (and to work efficiently SHOULD) be left on because it is NOT A FIRE HAZARD and works with a thermostat. The only real fire hazard issue is that it can not be plugged into an extension cord safely and the plug itself can get hot if not in a proper outlet. In fact, if there is a fire hazard with this heater it's the cord that is the issue not the radiator itself. The cord is long enough though that it is not a problem for us to put it where we want it and plug in properly.
I just turned one of these heaters on today and I'm as happy to have it as I was all last Winter. I can't say enough good things about these heaters. They have met and exceeded all of my expectations. Even the price I paid for them was remarkably good. I paid less for one of these heaters than I did my "ceramic dish heater" that for numerous reasons I was almost never able to use. I even love that it's on wheels. Easily moveable on my utility room tile floor.
There is just nothing bad to say about this heater. Exceptional is the word for it!
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DeLonghi EW7707CM Oil-filled Radiator Heater
Read all the reviews on Amazon and elsewhere. Rejected the DeLonghi radiator with timer b/c of noise concerns. Been using this DeLonghi non-timer radiator for three weeks now to heat my 20 x 12 bedroom while our furnace is out for a remodel. Room has average insulation. Overnight temps have been in the low 40's. Results have been very satisfying. Room heats to a very comfortable temperature on highest power in about 15 minutes and maintains temperature at half power. Get this heater if you want a constant source of heat, not for instant space heating. Issue with the smell of the hot oil is trivial unless you are especially sensitive to smells.
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Great heater but...
I own 3 of these. I got one to test out and then added 2 more (one for each bedroom to try to combat high central heating costs). I have had them for just over a month and will update this review if any of them break or I discover something worth mentioning here.
The initial impressions are:
The heater works great. Allow about 1/2 hour to warm up any room bigger than 10x10. My 15x15 bedroom stays warm on Low setting with a thermostat set to 4 with mid-40 degrees outside (this old house has a below average insulation).
The heater is totally silent. In the beginning, one of the 3 heaters made some crackling noise for about an hour after being turned on. I called DeLonghi support (which was good, by the way!) and was told that it's normal and has to do with how the heater was handled during delivery and that I should expect it to stop making these sounds after several uses. It did stop making the sound pretty much that day!
For the energy conscious, the heater consumes 1500 Watts when both MEDIUM and LOW (but not ComforTemp) buttons are pressed. The ComforTemp button maintains the room temperature of ~70 degrees and delivers 27% energy savings. When the LOW button is pressed, the energy consumption is 700 Watts. When the MEDIUM button is pressed, the energy consumption is 800 Watts. By comparison, my relatively new Sharp 12,000 BTU AC consumes 1,150 Watts.
Note, the ComforTemp button gets "stuck" when the heater is hot. So you'll have to wait for the heater to cool off to depress it.
It would be nice if the heater was more portable. While it has wheels to roll from room to room on the same floor, if you plan to carry it between floors while it's still hot, don't even try. In general, it's not very portable between floors as it has only 1 side handle and it's quite heavy.
The ultimate question is: would I buy it again? Based on my experience with this heater so far I would say YES without hesitating.
EDIT: After a month of light use one of the heaters started leaking oil. Luckily, it is still within returns period with Amazon so it will be shipped back tomorrow.
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