Bests & Worsts Reviews from Amazon

This is our third winter with one of these. We'd originally gotten it with couple of Vornados --- and, in spite of a CR recommendation, we should've skipped the Vornadoes and gotten two of these. THIS thing really, really works well! We use it in a 200 sq ft bedroom, with the rest of the house left at 63 at night. On the LOW setting this heater can easily push the room to 80 on a 20-degree night. A control suggestion (to be followed under your own advisement!): Right from the beginning I used a Lux WIN100 plug-in thermostat. I removed the sensor and attached a 30-foot extension lead to it. The thermostat and heater are positioned on the colder outside wall, with the sensor on a small homemade pedestal on my wife's night table, on the opposite side of the room. Works perfectly. If you have any mechanical/electrical ability, the modification takes about the same time as writing the description. (I've since learned that terrarium-keepers use the same method (with other heaters, of course.)) We've never used this heater on HIGH. (I would think that without a separate thermostat it could cook you to medium-well overnight.) On the LOW setting it averages a 30% cycle time set at 69 through the winter nights (as measured with a Kill-a-Watt). So, if it's on for 9 hours/night at 750W, it runs for 3 hours and costs about $0.75/night. (Our oil burner eats 0.6 gal/hour at $3.99/gal, or about $2.40/hour. Heating the whole house to heat the bedroom is obviously nuts.) Oh --- we also have a solar system that averages 10,000 kWh/year, so you get the picture! The other Lux thermostat kicks the oil burner on in the morning --- as this heater gets turned off simultaneously. Be advised that this heater makes some "crinkly" noises when it heats, especially when new. You'll ignore it by Day 3.