Eco-heater 602 High-Efficiency Electric Panel Whole-Room Heater
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Tools and Hardware Reviews of Eco-heater 602 High-Efficiency Electric Panel Whole-Room Heater
Customer Review: Econo Heaters are GREAT
Summary: 5 Stars
My husband and I purchased a home in Ohio and went there this past winter. We have a wonderful propane heater that worked well but oh did it cost us! I had purchased 6 of these heaters and decided to put one of them up. I was pleasantly surprised when I realized the propane heater came on less, so I put up two more in this 12 x 17 very open room (I left the one up for a month before I put the other two up). They kept the room and the adjoining large room at a consistent 66 degrees when the temperature outside was in the low 20's and below. But, the ultimate decision to continue using these was to be made when the electric bill came out.
When we received the electric bill I had had one heater plugged in 24/7 and our electric bill rose $5.00. I was shocked. Wow, these are the best of the best in my opinion. Now we have 5 of them up and I will order 3 more for other rooms. I will be heating a 1,500 sq. ft., 1 1/2 story with these. For once, I've purchased something that really does work as well as the company says it does.
Customer Review: Efficient Reliable convection panel heater, long term review
Summary: 5 Stars
I've had my 8 panels in use for well over 18 months in upstate NY... after reading the one star review, I checked all 8 with no signs of cracking observed on any of mine? Unless something changes, I highly recommend these panels because mine have already easily paid for themselves! Despite being on 24-7 during the Cold months, they perform safely & reliably. Mine were purchased from Econo-Heat, a Texas Distributor, and appear to be exactly the same product pictured and described. I'm not recommending these for homes with toddlers / young children because they will get hot (especially if room temperatures are over 69degrees F.) but are structurally safe if Installed Correctly. They are easy to install as well. This is a supplimental convection heat used in conjuction with a primary home heating method. It has greatly reduced my need to run my kerosene furnace and has resulted in noticable savings, despite being electric panels!!! ;-)Customer Review: Excellent product
Summary: 5 Stars
We have owned two of these heaters for the last few years and have absolutely loved them. We have had neither the cracking or the fume issue that some users have mentioned so maybe we are fortunate. The set up was easy and we painted them the same color as the wall so they blend in perfectly. Three years now and they still work great. Highly recommended!Customer Review: Excellent, for what it is
Summary: 4 Stars
Based on many of the reviews here, we had purchased 4 of these heaters to supplement our expensive oil heating. I work from a small home office and so heating the whole house during the day was unnecessary. Instead we run the furnace once in the morning, and then once or twice at night, relying on these heaters to maintain the temperature.
We installed one of these heaters in an upstairs 10x10 office, another in an upstairs 10x10 bedroom, and the 2 others downstairs, shared between our living room and dining room (about 12 x 24 in total). They were easy to paint, but as we have old horsehair plaster walls, not all of them were easy to install; it took some creative work and a trip to Home Depot.
In the bedroom and office these work quite well. The bedroom is quite toasty (the only insulated room), and after a few cold New England nights we've found that it has performed very well. Winter air is already dry, so we don't keep the heater on all night, but rather heat up the room before bed and then have it turn on at about 5am (we use appliance timers).
The office heater could only be located all the way on the other side of the room from where I work, but it does a decent--not great--job of maintaining a temperature of around 60 - 65 degrees (and sometimes warmer towards the afternoon after it has been on for a few hours).
The downstairs heaters have a much harder job, because the living/dining areas are open to other rooms (kitchen, foyer), but they do an OK job of supplementing the hot water heat (probably by just a few degrees, though).
Surprisingly, our electric bill was only marginally higher, and far lower than running our A/C in the heat of summer. People really have to remember that these are intended to be ECONOMICAL units, not ultra, super, turbo-charged heaters.
Some notes:
- Yes, you can definitely burn yourself on the surface of this heater. It's not as hot as a red-hot space heater or a stove top, but it'll still leave a mark.
- Placement is really important, so read the safety/installation instructions and make sure that you have a sensible place to put one. ie: Avoid installing near doorways, windows and open entryways.
- If you have horsehair plaster walls like ours, you'd do best to line up one side of the heater with a stud, and then reinforce the other two screw holes before installing (I drilled out a 1/2" hole for each and then used multiple applications of spackling paste over a few days before drilling the final pilot holes).
- It's best to turn on the heaters AT LEAST 2-3 hours before you plan to be in a room. We have all of them connected to appliance timers...and be sure to keep doors closed while the room heats up.
Hope this helps.
Customer Review: Extremely hot to the touch
Summary: 2 Stars
CAUTION! This heater gets extremely hot to the touch. The wall behind the heater will also get quite hot. I have been using this heater for over a year to heat my bathroom which has no other source of heat. I have it connected to a thermostat that plugs into the wall outlet. I have to set the thermostat way up between 76-78 to maintain the room around 69 because the heater, the wall, and the thermostat will get very hot before the room begins to get warm. If you don't connect the heater to a thermostat, the heater will get incredibly hot to the touch. I can't tell that it has saved any on my electric bill over the oil-filled radiator heater I had been using previously. It is low profile and unobtrusive except the plug sticks straight out and when you connect that to a thermostat it sticks out about 5 inches. It would have been nice to have a flat 90-degree plug and a storage mechanism for the excess power cord.