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: Great fit for my needs
Summary: 5 Stars
This heater has been working great for me from the start. I needed a relatively small heater to keep a 150 sq ft room warm while still being pet friendly (won't burn anyone or outgas bird toxic fumes). So far I couldn't be much happier. This heater does take a few minutes to come up to temperature so that it can begin heating the room, and it also does take a bit longer, once warm, to heat the entire room compared to other space heaters its size. However the fact that the Eco-heater draws much less power, fits my pet requirements, and it is more space efficient (as it attaches to the wall) outweigh the few extra minutes I have to wait to be warm. Even that can be cheaply addressed if you buy a programmable outlet thermostat.Customer Review: Great heater for the nursery
Summary: 5 Stars
I bought this heater in Fall 2008 and installed it in the bedroom of my 2 month old daughter. Actually I bought it from a different seller who sells the same model except with some painting on it. Mine had a cute picture of a family of bears. I came to the Amazon website to buy a thermostat for this product and decided to leave a review for the panel itself.
I have a very small bedroom and did not have any space available to install the panel close to the floor so I installed it above the love seat. As I said, mine had a cure picture, so it actually looks like a picture on the wall rather than a heater and my daughter always smiles at it. My guest never realized that it is a heater...
So it is not a big problem if it is installed at 4-5 ft above the floor particular if your room is not very big.
It take about 10-15 minutes for the heater to warm up so you have to keep in it mind. That is why I ended up using it continuously in my daughters room and had to keep the door open sometimes to prevent temperature from raising up to much. That is why I came back to buy a thermostat and would recommend to other to buy it.
Once the heater is running, it does get hot, but you can still touch it for short period of time without getting burned. So it is safe to touch.
It does not make any noise, and does not dry the air. I recommended this product to all my friend who recently had babies.
Customer Review: Great heater, but...
Summary: 4 Stars
We needed a supplemental heater to gently warm a room since we keep our entire house temperature set at 55 (to save energy). We were using the portable electric space heaters (with a fan) to warm the room we were in. But we were afraid to leave these things on all day unattended or during the night, so we were constantly turning them off, then on again. Plus, the fans were noisy and irritating.
In our living room, we have an big, old, heavy wood stove that hasn't been used in years since the chimney was removed for another project. The stove is surrounded by brick on both the base and the back, so there is a lot of mass there. We tried one of these Eco Heaters and attached it to the back of wood stove between the stove and the brick. This way, it is invisible and we were hoping it would heat up the mass of the stove and also the brick. It took many hours of running to heat up everything but it works great. Heat is radiated by the stove and the brick backing and the room is kept comfortable. It can also be safely left on continuously, even when not home. With no fans and no visible heating element, it is quiet and safe.
I would have given this product 5 stars, but there is one huge problem. As soon as we removed the product from the packaging we noticed a horrible smell. This thing stunk up our entire home within 10 minutes. You get a slip of paper with it stating that there may be an odor for the first 24 hours of use. We installed it anyway hoping the smell would go away quickly. It was only operating for less than 1 hour when I began to feel a numbing sensation on lips, irritation in my mouth and my sense of smell diminished. Even the cat left the room and did not return. I could not stand the smell any longer and removed the heater from its location and placed it in the garage for 5 days with the door left open. My guess is that whatever ever the smell is, it is toxic and unhealthy. So, if you decide to buy one of these, please beware of the toxic fumes.
Customer Review: Great idea, too bad it didn't work
Summary: 1 Stars
I was enthusiastic about supporting green technology and saving money on electricity this winter, but unfortunately the eco-heater really needs to go back to the drawing board for some serious improvement. It is just simply low-grade. The heat it puts out would hardly keep you warm if you were standing right next to it. My bedroom is very small, and the eco-heater just did not warm it significantly at all. Too bad, because it seemed like such a great idea. I went instead with a Delongi 'dragon' oil radiator. It has two eco-settings (600, and 800 watts along with 1500), is silent and has a really easy-to-program timer that makes the heat come on for the specific intervals you choose, which saves on electricity.Customer Review: HORRIBLE CHEMICAL SMELL!!!!!
Summary: 1 Stars
This item was a BIG waste of money. It gets EXTREMELY hot to touch and releases a terrible headache inducing chemical smell. DON'T WASTE YOUR MONEY. It would have take me 2 of these to really make my room warm, so the amount of energy consumption would be just about the same as a De Longhi (which I happily use). I WOULD HAVE GIVEN IT A "-STAR" rating if I could!