Buy Dr. Infrared Heater DR968 Portable Infrared Space Heater

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This is an attractive unit that is easy to move around and safe to touch when the heat is on. I have tried many 1500 watt space heaters. The others tend to warm only close to the heater and are very expensive to run! I have it in my bedroom (150sf with 12 foot high ceilings). Set on low, it heats the whole room evenly with comfortable heat for very little money. I ran it every day for 4 hours in the morning during the winter and sometimes all night. When I compare with last years bills for the same months, the additional cost to run this heater was only around $4/month! After using it for two winters, I just purchased a second heater for my larger living room space of 500sf with 12 foot high ceilings. With the outside temperature in the 50's, it is again warming the whole room evenly while maintaining my living room temperature at 70 degrees.

A couple of minor issues to mention: First, it has a fan. I don't find it noisy, but it does make some background noise. And second, it has an initial smell that goes away quickly. I am very happy with this heater!

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Have been searching for something to work. It takes the chill out of the air; it doesn't run all the time; it's quiet, small, and easy to roll! We are so relieved.

Have the Electric Fireplace; have a variety of space heaters; all either are limited to what area they heat and cost a lot; or just plain don't work. This is so nice!

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I first saw this heater in a cabin I stayed at in Canada. When I needed a little heater for my living space I looked this up to get the information on the internet. It looks nice, I like the settings that makes it easy to use, it easily heats my space and has great safty features.

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Heater worked great the first several times I turned it on. But then the heater would only heat if I was cycling the mode button. When I stopped the heat would turn off but the fan would still run. I called customer service and they had me take the front plastic panel off and loosen two screws and presto that did the trick. It has worked great ever since.

I would prefer it would be slightly bigger than it is, but it puts out good heat, so it does the job.

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I am so glad I finally purchased this little gem! It works great and is very quiet.

It has provided the warmth we haven't received from our heat pump. We placed it

in between our family room and kitchen, where we spend most of our time, and it

heats the space nicely. I just recommended it to my Dad for his condo.

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We have oil heat and a very large older home so try to conserve running the furnace when you only need to warm up a few rooms. This heater is great for my livingroom it's has 2 ceramic heater units built into it, quiet, heats the room up very quickly would recommend it to anyone. Ceramic heaters use far less electricity than traditional heaters.

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We bought this ceramic heater to heat our Airstream TT as the propane heater heats great but is just too noisy. This heater is quiet, emits a suprising amount of heat, and you can adjust the temperature. All in all a very good value.

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This little power house is easy on the wallet, very powerful, heats up in an instant and silent: there is no noise. I am very pleased with the quality of this item and intend to stay with this because I have to pay high gas bills and I use it to heat the room instead of turning on the gas heat. Works like a charm and makes the room toasty and warm without taking a lot of money either! I highly recommend this. Not one complaint. Very extremely pleased.

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I got this to replace a long line of space heaters that have failed

Pro's:

I have a very large bedroom (about 500 sq. ft.) and it does a very god job of heating it quickly

low profile and light weight makes it easy to move, but be careful

fairly quiet

good thermostat control, with 2 different fan settings

removal intake cover and "filter"

Con's:

needs 3 feet clearance on all sides per instructions

"filter" on the backside will only catch large clumps of dust, smaller hairs or bits of dust go right through and hit the heating element

cycles on and off a lot when reaches temperature, but would only wake a light sleeper

no GFI built in

BIGGEST CON : the expanded metal grate on the front gets very hot after short usage. It gets hot enough to give a nasty burn if touched. There is no secondary plastic grill as a guard. DO NOT LET SMALL CHILDREN OR PETS NEAR IT! This could be a recall issue in the future.

Handle: it's oddly placed on top so the average person would be more likely to grab it by he side to move it. MISTAKE: that's how you get a nasty burn.

I don't have any small children and my dog won't go near it, so I will keep it unless recalled.

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I had previously owned this same unit and was delightful that I could find the exact replacement. I use it in my office as it is small and can be placed in any area.

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Pro's-soft warm snuggly and easy to use. Con's-The cord is detachable ,but you cannot remove the blanket from the heating pad. You have to wash them together. It would be nice if you could remove the fleece cover.

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Review of Nuheat Harmony Dual Voltage Floor Heating Programmable Thermostat

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---UPDATE---

So the vendor has worked with us to help solve the problem we were having with our Harmony. There was some back-and-forth about whether or not I was, essentially, an idiot, but I persevered in convincing the vendor that I had not installed the unit incorrectly. They shipped me a replacement unit, at their expense, to see if the second unit would experience similar problems (i.e., an inability to fully and quickly heat the floor). I'm very pleased to say that the second unit functioned as intended, and can quickly (~15-20 minutes) raise the temperature of our tile floor by 10 to 15 degrees. I've bumped the review from one star to four, since I feel the inability of the scheduling function to work in the absence of a temperature sensor is a poor design decision (i.e., you can't schedule the unit to come on at 100% for half an hour at 6:00 AM -you can only use the scheduler if the unit can read a temperature from your installation).

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We recently purchased a home with a 240V heated tile floor system in the master bathroom. The thermostat driving that heated floor was a manual model, with an on/off switch and a rotary power dial. Turning the heater on first thing in the morning meant that you'd have a toasty hot floor by the time you got out of the shower, but oh, that walk _to_ the shower was cold.

I purchased the NuHeat Harmony hoping to overcome this limitation and to improve the aesthetics of the bathroom. The fact that this thermostat sits flush in the wall in a dual gang box, and is compatible with any dual-gang decora-style plate cover, was a big seller.

I was a little concerned about whether the existing temperature sensor in the floor would be compatible with this thermostat. When I contacted NuHeat to ask if it would work, they told me to try it, and if it worked, great! If not, I could always use the thermostat as a power regulator.

Well, the temperature sensor is sort-of compatible (i.e., doesn't generate an error message), but the readings don't seem accurate. So I tried putting the NuHeat in power regulator mode. Big drawback: you CAN NOT PROGRAM the thermostat to turn on and off while in power regulator mode. It's just a 0% to 100% manual setting only, no timer, no programming.

REPEAT -YOU CAN NOT PROGRAM THE THERMOSTAT IN POWER REGULATOR MODE

If you have an existing installation, and the thermostat probe is not compatible, this unit WILL NOT FUNCTION AS A PROGRAMMABLE THERMOSTAT. Which is curious, because you can enter the programming mode, select program start times, and specify a power level (instead of the temperature that you can specify when the thermostat is in temperature mode) of between 5% and 45% (weird, I know). NuHeat customer service indicates that this is normal behavior.

Even worse, the floor, which used to get toasty hot in 20 minutes or so, now BARELY GETS LUKEWARM after nearly two hours of full power.

I contacted NuHeat to inquire about this, and was not impressed with the level of customer service. I told them my old thermostat got the floor warmer quicker, which made me think something was wrong with the NuHeat (e.g., it wasn't delivering full power to the warming mat, despite being set to full power). Their response? My previous thermostat was "not a Nuheat thermostat and I don't know how to compare it with the Harmony."

So, I'm in the process of exchanging the thermostat for another, hopefully functional model. Because the manufacturer wouldn't help me, I'm having to do it through the vendor (and pay return shipping). If that one actually heats up the floor as it should, I'll learn to live with the inaccurate temperature readings (so that I can use the programmable feature). If not, well, I guess I expanded a single gang box to a dual gang box for no good reason.

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Only functions as a programmable thermostat with a compatible temperature sensor in power regulator mode, you can't schedule it to turn on or off.

The unit I got won't heat the floor anywhere near as fast or as hot as the previous thermostat. Hopefully a defective unit.

Customer service is lacking

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Perfect t-stat for Nuheat In-Floor Heating. I looked at the other options they have available (specifically the Solo) and decided to go with this one since it matched my decor better.

The solo is externally mounted and looks like it was an afterthought. The Harmony works well with a standard electrical box and matches my decora switch plates perfectly. Four period timer works great. heats floor quickly.

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I just had a new AC system put in, and the installer suggested I replace my Honeywell Chromagraph III, which I loved. However, he was right and it was old, and had no backlight, so at night I had to keep a flashlight nearby. He wanted to go with another brand, but with my previous experience with Honeywell, and because of the excellent reviews here, I insisted on the Honeywell TH8320. I don't regret it for a second. Does everything my previous thermostat did, and more! Like the other unit, it automatically switches from heat to cool (but NOTE: it comes set as a default as Heat OR Cool, so you have to go into the Installer instructions to make it automatic, but it's easy to do that), it can have an always-ON night light (bye bye to that flashlight now!), it has a FAN Circulation mode (runs 35% of the time, which is great and at night you aren't frozen out), it has a wonderfully easy to use touch screen, and this one can do a whole lot of other things I don't need (like run 3 heat and 2 cool systems, plus heat pumps and emergency heat). Basically, all 4 of the Honeywell 8000 units are nearly identical -3 are supposed to be installed by professional installers (the 8320, which is this unit; the 8321 which adds humidity control, and the 8110, which only has hook ups for 1 heat and 1 cool system but has all the same features), and the 8500, which is designed as a do-it yourself thermostat. I don't have that one, but because my 8320 had 2 manuals (one for the homeowner and one for the installer, my guess is that the 8500 tells you everything you need to know without pretending it is for the professional installer). And believe me, my installer didn't even look at the installer manual and didn't know how to to switch to the fully automatic function or the night light, and he didn't have a clue that there is a special installer TEST program to test his installation, but luckily I read BOTH manuals and showed him. So if you get one of these units -and I highly recommend them -make sure you read BOTH manuals. As I said, the Installer manual has some very important features. But the unit itself is great, and even my wife loves it!

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I have a habit of replacing thermostats in houses with high tech, programmable ones that try but never really make it "easier" to use. IE, the wife says, "how do I make it warmer in here?" and I reply "push the red button." What seems obvious to one person, it's necessarily so to another.

So we've had a junky old thermostat in this latest home of ours and we absolutely hated it. It was easy to set (move the little lever on top left or right) but doing so made a HUGE difference (+/-5 degrees) and it was impossible to ever get it set "just right." Even when set close to where we wanted, the temperature swung about 5 degrees before activation/deactivation so it was always either too warm or too cold.

I finally fixed it with this thermostat. This is easily the best thermostat I've ever owned. Installing it was much less problematic than others I have bought. I'm not a contractor but neither do I fear yanking the panel off my heat pump/furnace to see how it's wired, and wire up the thermostat accordingly. The manual walks you right through setting up the "one time" setup options and then voila, it works!

Programming is a cinch. My wife has made programming changes to it a few times so that makes two of us that think the interface is very user-friendly. We leave the backlight on low all the time, so it is easy to find and alter in the middle of the night, which we do very infrequently now that we've got it set "just right."

One gotcha: by default, temperature settings and times are "targets" and this thermostat will attempt to be at the target temperature at the set time. So if you have it set to warm up the house to 68° at 7AM, the furnace will kick on before then to make sure the house is warmed up to 68 at 7.

Bah! I'm still happily under the comforter at 6:30 and if the heat kicks on, I start roasting and wake up. Not good! But that is easy to change.

I also bought the outdoor temp sensor, which I'll get around to hooking up soon...

UPDATE: I did get that temp sensor hooked up last summer, and it works GREAT! We refer to it far more often than walking over to the window to look at the outdoor thermometer. The thermostat has continued to work flawlessly. So well, we nearly forget that the thermostat exists.

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Buyer beware....I purchased this thermostat justifying the cost versus other models with the energy efficiency. After owning the model only two years, it has been deemed "not fixable" by Honeywell but is not being replaced under the five year warrnaty as stated in the book because it was purchased online and not installed by a technician. The install is not that difficult and it obviously worked fine, but now they claim that the policy is void if not installed by a professional. If you want the warranty, buy elsewhere.

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This thermostat has lots of capability. Easy to program. Easy to override for temporary temperature. Note an important capability that only this unit has is the air circulation feature where the blower/fan runs 20min in every hour. This moves the air and prevents cold/hot spots. The temperature in the house will be uniform and comfortable.

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This thermostat is great! At first it seemed a little daunting, but once I read through the instructions once and tried it, it was a lot more intuitive than I thought it would be. Now it is easy to program, easy to override, and saves me money on heating or cooling rooms when they aren't being used. I program the playroom for heating in the early morning on weekends when the kids get up early to watch cartoons, and leave it off the rest of the week. The four periods a day are enough to cover most any situation. It gives a nice backlight glow when you use it and it can be a nightlight if you leave the backlight on. I dreaded changing thermostats, but I bought one and then bought two more for the other parts of my house. It works great!

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The video provides a quick overview of the thermostat and steps through some of the menu options.

Overall, I'm very happy with this thermostat. It replaced an older programmable thermostat that came with my house in 2000 and still worked fine, but this one has some nice added features such as a large touchscreen and a reminder to replace my air filter. Although the touch screen only registers a touch at certain locations, it is a nice step up from the small screen on my previous unit. It's really easy to read the screen when the back light is on after you've touched the screen. I also like that its hysteresis (how far away from the set point that it turns on and off) is pretty narrow it doesn't run as long as my older thermostat, and it keeps the temperature in a more comfortable band for me. That was an unexpected and pleasant surprise.

It's not perfect, though. It's a bit difficult for me to read in its normal (no back light) condition, and there's no menu option to change the contrast of the LCD screen (which surprised me). It also, and this is just personal preference on my part, doesn't display the time of day unless you touch the screen. I was used to being able to see the time as I walked by the thermostat in my hallway. Not a big deal, but I wish it showed it.

Pros:

(*) Controls temperature to a narrower band than some other thermostats (smaller hysteresis)

(*) Nice, big screen

(*) Screen is very easy to read when the back light is on

(*) Is easy to mount and is pretty flush against the wall

(*) A number of menu settings that are easy to navigate, including (and one of my favorite features) a reminder for replacing an air filter

Cons:

(*) Screen is fairly dim unless you touch it and have the back light turn on (but it turns off fairly quickly), and there is no menu setting to adjust the LCD contrast

(*) Clock only displays when you press the screen

At its current price of $90, there are a number of options out there to choose from in this price class. While it's not perfect, it is nice and I recommend giving it some consideration as you shop around.

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Customer review from the Amazon Vine Program I was looking to find a new thermostat to replace my old thermostat that came with the house.

I wanted 3 things large display, lighted display, simple. And this fit the bill.

Pro's:

*Large screen

*Simple set up (My Mom was able to use it while house sitting). "1 touch" Settings for away, home, sleep

*Interchangeable faceplate (to match wall plate colors)

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Con's:

-Touch screen is not as responsive as a smart phone (its only really active on the outer edges)

4/5 stars

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This is a great improvement over old, simple thermostats.

It has a large screen that lights up once you touch it...even though it sometimes takes several touches in the right areas for it to come to life. So here are some details for you to be able to make a decision to buy or to pass.

Pro's:

Nice large screen

Very easy to set up

interchangeable color borders (inserts to match the color of your wallYellow, gold/light brown, light grey, white and transparent)

31 touch favorite settings (Away, Home, Sleep)

Nice large numbers (large digital buttons)

simple to operate

Lots of installation options and works with a lot of different systems (however mine is pretty straightforward so I have not tested this).

Con's:

-Only one, the touchscreen is only activate around the edges, if you press the middle where the readings show up it won't activate (therefore the 4 stars).

So far it's temperature sensitivity and readings have been pretty accurate. It's very easy to change and adjust settings on the fly...now it's not a Nest but really a top of the line Thermostat, definitely a BUY.

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Customer review from the Amazon Vine Program I had never installed a thermostat before but had been reassured by many that the industry has reformed itself over the last decade and home installation is pretty easy. We have a one year old condo this unit is going in and I was able to remove the old thermostat and install the new one in less then an hour which is way quicker then I thought it would take me.

We don't have AC, just a fan and heat and everything seems to be working fine. The programming is easy and in general the interface was intuitive.

The only reason I don't give this five stars is thats it's a bit of an eyesore. Obviously the NEST is the aesthetic champion at twice the price (but also with more features) but perhaps White Rodgers can make this a little more stylized as its very prominent in our living room. I wished it didn't look like it belonged in a dentists office.

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Customer review from the Amazon Vine Program I approached installing the thermostat with some trepidation, I'd never done something like this before. Reading the reviews made me feel a little more confidence ("if they can do it!") so I dove in, and by dove in, I mean I read the manual then read it again and then once more for good measure. From what I was reading, it seemed like it would be an easy installation.

In fact, as it turned out, extricating the thermostat from its Fort Knox was the hardest part of the entire endeavor. Being careful to label the wires out of the wall according to the tremendously helpful diagrams, I was soon pushing them into the contact receptacles. In all, it took me less than 15 minutes to remove the old thermostat and put the new one in.

The second-most difficult part of this adventure was the programming itself. At first, the manual instructs you to keep things as they are, default out of the box and to attempt actual programming later. After some brainwork, I was able to decide what temperature settings I would be using. I wager that without the manual, you'd have little chance of success since there were some settings identified only as "3" and no titles.

Once the temperature settings were sorted, actually programming the thermostat was quite easy. In the few days beforehand, we would manually set the temperature on the touch-screen and either "permanent hold" it (with useful buttons labeled clearly) at that temperature or "temporary hold" until the next temperature switchover time. Nifty. Each button press is accompanied by a satisfying and confirmatory beep. After a while, the neon green backlighting turns off leaving a washed-out grayish background which is very difficult to see in dim lighting. The way to turn it back on is to find and press an "active" key (like the temperature setting button). This is almost impossible to do when it's dark.

Anyway, since programming was completed a few weeks ago, it's been set-it-and-forget-it. With this thermostat from the Alpha Centauri(!), it is possible to set it on either the cool or heat settings or have the thermostat automatically switch between them. That last setting has been extraordinary. No longer do I need to come home and immediately rush to the thermostat to start the heat cycle this winter.

Apart from the non-existent backlighting that forces you to hunt and peck on the screen to turn it on in the dim, this is an excellent piece of hardware and I wonder why I didn't get one before now. 5 stars!

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I purchased this space heater about 2 years ago for my office. This is by far the best space heater I have ever used. I've had absolutely no problems with this space heater. It works as well as it did when I first purchased it! I highly recommend this product.

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I bought this heater about 1.5 months ago. It worked great for the first three weeks, and I was quite happy with it, but after that time it started making an annoying rattling sound when it started up. The sound would gradually go away over about 1 minute. Now, the rattling sound stays on the entire time the heater is on. Coincidentally, my roommate bought the same exact heater and hers does the exact same thing. Oh, and mine started sparking (!) lately too. That was the last straw; it went right back to the store for a refund today. Don't buy this heater unless you like being annoyed by cheap crappy products.

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WE used this model for years and years, then it finally died after a series of power outages and brown outs. So we went on a search to find this exact same model because we like how this one works out of all the others. This is one of the safest, and most effective space heaters I have used. It gets approved by our Higher Education Safety committee every time. Great product, keep up the good work!

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I have tried several space heaters this winter, and this one is by far, the best one.

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Heats the room very well and has all the safety features. Small size is convenient as well. I would recommend.