Optimus H-4110 9-Inch Dish Heater
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Tools and Hardware Reviews of Optimus H-4110 9-Inch Dish Heater
Customer Review: Cute desk heater
Summary: 5 Stars
At the low prices at the time, I bought 4 of them.
Unlike a lot of radiant heaters that use a fragile glass, quartz halogen heating element, which are so bright it's like sitting in front of a bright yellow floodlight, or get dangerously hot, these use a durable nichrome & ceramic element that emits a very dim (but warm) red glow.
This is the smallest, lowest powered parabolic heater I ever found. Low power has some advantages in some situations, saves money, & reduces pollution.
There is no fan, so it's totally silent. Because it's only 300 watts, it does not get dangerously hot if nearby. But as with all heaters, you should use some common sense, like don't cover the heater or hang stuff over it, point it at curtains, or place it right next to bedding. I have one on a table about 3' away from the bed, yet I can feel the heat in bed on my face, about 7' away.
It has a standard, tip over, cut-off switch for safety.
This little thing is ideally suited as a desk or small area heater, but for it's low power consumption, it does put out a lot of heat towards what it's pointed at. Don't expect it to heat up an entire room like a 1500 watt or more heater. This heater only consumes 20% of the power. It will not be a suitable for your sole source of heat with the furnace off for a room or house if it gets near 0 degrees F outside. So buy several if you want to use these little heaters a lot to offset your heating bills.
Consuming such little power, they have the advantage of being plugged in most outlets & circuits shared by other stuff without overloading or overheating the outlet or circuit.
It'll take 5 of them to consume as much power as a standard, typical 1500 watt heater.
You save money because most people on the coldest days don't need to heat up the entire room nice & toasty, but only need to heat the area a lot where they're hanging out in. Thus, much less power is required to do it with these. Also, if you're in a drafty or poorly insulated older room, or one with high ceilings, your heat from traditional heaters may leak out fast or rise to the ceiling where you don't need it. Radiant heat feels warmer & is more efficient in those kind of rooms, by directing & concentrating the heat more towards the area it's pointed at.
Parabolic heaters focus the infrared heat in a concentrated direction like a spotlight would, instead of blowing it all over a room. Parabolic (dish) heaters focus this heat to a tighter area than other reflective types.
There's a lot of misconceptions & complaints about radiant heaters that simply are not true. They complain they do not heat up the whole room or as fast as other types of heaters. A 300 watt radiant heater will heat up an entire room just as fast & well as any other type of 300 watt heater, & any 1500 watt radiant heater will heat up a room as fast as any other type of 1500 watt heater would. But you'll feel hotter instantly in the direction a parabolic heater is pointed at instead of waiting for the heater to heat up the whole room.
The problem is people buy a 100-1200 watt radiant heater & expect it to warm up a whole room as fast & good as an over 1500 watt one would.
A 1500 watt or higher heater may strain, overheat, or overload your wiring more, & overheat the cord or outlet for regular or continuous use.
Update: One reviewer said, "Could be the radiant aspect of it not being able to penetrate sneakers and jeans. But since I prefer not to work naked, I replaced with a small ceramic unit that does the trick."
Nope, I believe it's because the heater is only a small, low powered 300 watt heater & your ceramic heater is probably 800-1650 watts. If you were to put an 800-1200 watt parabolic heater under your desk, you'd probably set your pants on fire.
QUOTE: "They are not heat dish. It was conventional electric heater. They are imitations, just the Style is like the heat dish. They even don't have auto thermos. No energy saver."
Reply: These ARE a heat dish & NOT a conventional heater, or more precisely, they're a parabolic heater... which is a heating element with a parabolic reflector. They focus a beam of heat to a narrow area it's pointed at. Like all of these types, some heat will still rise off the top of the heater too by convection too.
I consider these the safest types of heaters because they don't get too hot & don't make the house wiring warm or overload it at only 300 watts.
Customer Review: This little heater may change your life !
Summary: 5 Stars
If your lifestyle is anything like mine this little heater will save you big bucks ! first i live in Arizona by myself and work all day and cant think of when i used my central heat in the last 2 years (thats when i bought my first 2 of these great little heaters). i have one on a nightstand 3ft from where i sleep ,it keeps my head warm and a blanket keep the rest of my warm and the house......who cares 60 ,55, 40 does not matter .in the morning the one in my bathroom keeps me from freezing out of the shower ! off to work i go ,never touching my central heat and only burning 300 watts to keep warm . at night i have a presto for the tv room but it is bright and you would never want it in a bedroom ! And last...... there great ! 2 years going strong the presto has to be replaced every year .....i just bought 2 more just to have ,just in case . there made the same with just a little red glow and all the heat anyone would need to sleep nice and warm .......buy one and try it , you will save BIG money this winterCustomer Review: Very nice small heater
Summary: 5 Stars
Bought two about a month ago. Then bought another two within a week because we like them so much. They are compact, low power consumption, quiet (actually no sound), effective and safe (not too hot besides the safety shut off mechanism when fall). They are perfect for heating a small area in a big room which you can not afford to heat up. I have a huge office in my basement which is very cold (~52 degrees). With the small heater about 2 feet in front of my feet, I feel really very comfortable. My feet used to be very cold and uncomfortable before I bought these heaters and now I feel really good. Yes, it has no thermostat, but is not a problem for me. Its plastic body seems pretty solid for me and it is light and compact to move around. Comparing to my other 1300-1500 W heaters, this 300 W heater makes me happy to run anytime I want without worrying about my electric bill (less than 5 cents/hour for each of the heaters).Customer Review: Great little spot heater
Summary: 5 Stars
I love this little heater. I bought one of these last year to use at my desk. My home office doesn't get adequate heat and stays in the 64 to 67 degree range. I wanted something inexpensive to run that would warm the area around my desk. This little heater does that perfectly while consuming only 300 watts.
It is definitely not powerful enough to heat a whole room, but if you are stationed mainly in one area of the room, like at a desk, and want some spot heating, it fits the bill. I can also set it back four or five feet and it will "beam" some gentle heat up under my desk to keep it from being so chilly at floor level.
No fan, so it's absolutely quiet. No thermostat, so you do have to switch it off and on manually, which I don't mind.
(Note: product image was missing when I wrote this review. It looks similar to the 14 inch model, just a little smaller.)
Customer Review: Great heater for its size and power
Summary: 5 Stars
I just received this heater today, so I'm not 100% sure about it yet.
Yes, this heater doesn't heat up as well as the bigger, pricier models because it's small and only uses 300watts. However, I think the heat it emits is almost comparable to the fan heater my roomate uses which uses 1500watts, 5x the power of this little heater. I think if I had 5 of these little ones, the room would become ~3x warmer than with the fan heater.
Pros:
-It's good for warming your feet and hands quickly
-It's very portable
-only 300watts (efficient for its power usage)
-good price
Cons:
-Has a bit of a gaseous smell that my other roomate's dish heater doesn't emit...maybe because this one is so new?
-Only a small area gets heated up
Overall, I'm happy with it.