Vornado EH1-0032-28 TouchStone 500 Vortex Full-Room Electric Heater
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Tools and Hardware Reviews of Vornado EH1-0032-28 TouchStone 500 Vortex Full-Room Electric Heater
Customer Review: Best heater on the market
Summary: 5 Stars
I have owned a few of these hot air fan heaters and this is by far the best. I have a large apartment with about a 12' high ceiling and I can notice the "vornado action" moving a feather hanging from a dreamcatcher at the corner of the ceiling with the fan sitting on the middle opposite side of the floor. This shows me that the fan is truely pumping the air around as it is heating and it is not just a gimmick or false claim. Other fans I have had did not do this and took like an hour to heat the room. The Vornado takes the chill out of the room within 15 minutes and is nice and warm reaching thermostat temperature by 30 minutes (most of the time depending on how cold it is.) What's even more impressive is that it is also so quiet I don't even know it's on sometimes!
However, since nothing is perfect here are a some design suggestions for the manufacturers:
1) The Sony remote problem is true, I have the same problem but thankfully my bed blocks my TV remote's "line of fire" so it rarely turns down the heater but it has on several ocassions--- Vornado should have picked a more obscure signal to use for the remote.
2) The remote needs to be more ergonomic so it's easy to hold and there should be indentations on the buttons so that you know what to press when fumbing in the dark--as it is now it's too small and impossible to tell if you're even holding it in the right direction.
3) The fan is so quiet it would be nice if the red "on" light would actually turn green so that you know it's on.
4) The blue LCD display is way too bright--it's like having 2 nightlights on in the room...very annoying and I wish it was darker since there is no need for it to be so bright (I'd put black tape over it but then can't see the temperature).
Overall though, only buy this if you are truely a design freak, it is beautiful and the quality of the metal housing is well worth the price if you are willing to drop that much money on a heater to just look stylish.
In terms of function though you can get the exact same results by buying the much cheaper (about half price) original Vornado without the remote. A friend of mine has this original Vornado which is what inspired me to buy mine. There is also a "clone" type heater competing with the original Vornado made by Holmes and I suspect the performance of that one is going to be very comparable and also a bit less expensive. Hope this helps you decide!
Customer Review: Beware
Summary: 1 Stars
We are terribly disappointed in the Vornado space heater which had been highly thought of by Consumer Reports - worth its higher price, etc. We find the heater occasionally blows warm air but just as often and perhaps more ofter blows COOL air. We should just give up and find a way to return it...Customer Review: Burning smell
Summary: 2 Stars
This space heater worked great for last winter. This year, I turn it on and it almost immediately sets off my fire alarm. There was a scary burning smell. I've found that the smell doesn't happen when the heater in is "low" mode, but then my room heats up very slowly if at all. Plus, I am nervously smelling the air every five minutes. Also, the room temp always stays at 65 even when my room is definitely colder. This means that the heater will shut off before you want it to. This product was way too expensive to only work for one season (I live in Los Angeles, so it wasn't even used very heavily), and life is way too short for possible fire hazards. I would not recommend it.Customer Review: Could've been better.
Summary: 4 Stars
I had been using the non remote control digital Vortex heater for years now and love it. It's better than the conventional heaters and heats up the rooms fast and evenly. When my heater broke which is a common problem with the digital vortex heater which have a tendency to break after about a year. (I was on my second one but kept buying because they work so well) So when I saw this remote control version I wanted one in my room because I'm lazy to get up at night to turn it on or off and since my heater broke I picked one up. Love the design and remote control......... HOWEVER this new version is not as nearly as powerful as the old Digital Vortex Heaters. The max temperature you can go to is only 85 degrees but the old Vortex is 90 degrees and I do notice a big difference in power as the older can make the room super hot in a short time but with this heater it can get very warm after some time but I do miss the power of the older heater. That's my only gripe but other than that it's a good heater.Customer Review: Disappointing Performance
Summary: 1 Stars
This heater has one good quality--it is quiet. Unfortunately, the thing it does not do well is heat. At the HI setting there was just the barest zephyr of warm air coming out, perhaps the unit was defective. There seems to be just one loop of wire heating element that just does not seem adequate to heat any size room. Units costing a small fraction of the Vornado perform as well or better.