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: Fantastic but Has Pros & Cons: could be more 'Green'
Summary: 4 Stars
This item is great! We live in a large old farm house with strickly baseboard heat. Both of the bathrooms have NO heaters so we purchased 3 of these units. We added one to each bathroom and a cold spot in our bedroom. The bathroom stays nice and toasty during the day and night now with no temperature difference between rooms.
We love the eco-heater so much we are considering replacing all of our 1500w baseboard heaters with these 400w heaters to save major $$ on our electric bill and lessen our carbon footprint.
There are many benefits to this heater but it is NOT PERFECT. As much as I LOVE this item, it does get a lot hotter than the company would like you to think. Too hot in my opinion to have around small children where they could easily burn their fingers or melt a plastic toy against it.
The heater was simple to install any man or woman cold do it in about 30 minutes or less. The foam packaging doubles as a template for your wall so you know the exact place to put the screw in and mount it. That was handy, however as an environmentalist, I was disappointed that the Eco-Heater used foam padding for shipping and a template rather than a biodegradable or recycled cardboard one. Now I am stuck with all this foam packing that can not be recycled and will NEVER be biodegradable. I feel this is something the manufacturer should consider since it is calling it an 'eco heater'. Shouldn't the packaging and the entire item be totally environmentally friendly?
There is room for improvement like adding a thermostat so it doesn't continuously run unless you manually shut it off. Again, get rid of the foam packaging so it is more environmentally friendly.
The item is made in Africa, and personally I feel that gives it a little more credibility than being made in China.
If and when you do decide to purchase this item, shop elsewhere. I love Amazon and their site, however a place called 'The Andersons', a general type of store has them everyday for $99. We almost purchased them online but would have spend nearly $150. by the time you figured in Shipping & Handling. There are other stores that carry them as well and I encourage you to shop locally in your own home town to help support your community. If your going to be 'green' please do it right and consider all aspects. Do NO Harm in all you do and use conscious thinking. That is being green!
Customer Review: Fire hazard
Summary: 1 Stars
DO NOT BUY!
This is a poorly made ceramic rectangle that heats only itself and will not possibly be worthwhile as a heat source.
The switch is faulty and therefore could be a fire hazard. Ace Hardware from whom I purchased charges to/from shipping and restocking REGARDLESS> This is about $50. Save your time, money and frustration. DO NOT BUY
Customer Review: Gives you more than you expect
Summary: 4 Stars
I received my eco-heater over a moth ago. I installed it in a 600 square foot guest house hoping it would keep the pipes from freezing this winter. That is all I wanted. Well, for the past 2-weeks the night time temps have been around 25 degrees and the coldest the cabin got was 51.8 degrees. Warmest was 68.7 degrees. And my power bill only went up 9 dollars for the month. The only draw back is the pannel gets hotter than reported. I have my fingers crossed and we will see how it holds up when it gets in the single digits ...Customer Review: Good for small spaces
Summary: 4 Stars
Hi Everyone, Ive been reading reviews and I was getting more confused, not less confused! So I finally decided to just purchase one and see for myself! I first saw an advertisement for the Eco-Heater in Cat Fancy magazine touting it for pet rooms. We have two outside cats who come into the garage to sleep at night. We are in MS, so it's not the frozen tundra of the north, but we do get under freezing. Right now it's 10:30am and 35 degrees. My husband put in a insulated room of 7x7x6 for the cats. Most people have closets bigger then this! But it's in a totally unheated garage and the Eco-Heater warms it up great! It is perfect for pets who could other wise knock over a freestanding heater. It does get hot to the touch, but my cat rubbed up against it the other day and it didn't faze her.
But here is the caveat. I have a 14x14x8 bedroom with 6 windows and no central heat. I don't think even two of these would make it toasty enough. They might warm it up a bit, or if you could get them close to the bed. I'm speculating, but I really think these would work better in small enclosed spaces without drafts, such as a bonus room off of a bedroom or a small office, or if you have central heat and you just need this for supplemental heat. So I am not going to purchase these for my bedroom, because they are hard to get vendors to take them back and if I'm not happy with how they warm up the room I'm stuck with them. 3 of them might work, but then you are into $400.00. Plus I'm concerned with the reviews about the cracking and not lasting for more then a couple of years. Too much money if they don't last very long!
I hope this was helpful.
Customer Review: Good heater for a specific requirement
Summary: 4 Stars
I first heard about this from another Amazon reveiwer that was reviewing another heater, and they ended up getting this one. I thought I would end up getting an oil filled heater, but there were a lot of reviews of quality problems, noise and fumes. This one seemed to fit the bill for my particular requirements, so I ordered one. It does not have thermostatic controls, just an on/off switch. We control it with a LUX win100 programmable outlet thermostat (see my review). Together the 2 products keep baby's room exactly at 70 degrees from 8:00PM to 7:30AM, allowing us to turn off the house furnace at night. It doesn't get hot enough to catch anything on fire or stink like a lot of higher wattage heaters. I also have a concern with adding a 1500 watt heater (most other heaters) to an already maxed 15 amp breaker. This is only a 400 watt unit. We are in northern california where it only gets down to the 40's or 50's at night outside. It works fine for us in a 10 x 12 room with the door closed. It does not run constantly to keep the room to 70, so I suppose it could keep up with colder weather. We've had no problems so far. It does not stink, make noise or get hot enough to burn you. One concern I had was how it would be when our baby turns into a toddler and finds in necessary to touch everything. It is supposed to be mounted low so the heat goes up and circulates, so it can't be placed out of reach of a child. It won't burn you if you touch it, but you will not want to touch it for more that a second! Hopefully, we can use it through the toddler stage without any injuries. Lastly, I don't quite get why it is so expensive, since it is just a large low wattage heating element (without even a thermostatic control). I would think a product like this would market for about $50.00 or so. Therefore 4 stars....otherwise I would give it 5 stars. Hopefully, it will last for a while... We are happy with it and would recommend it if it suits your needs.
R.