DeLonghi TRN0812T Portable Oil-Filled Radiator with Programmable Timer
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Kitchen and Housewares Reviews of DeLonghi TRN0812T Portable Oil-Filled Radiator with Programmable Timer
Customer Review: Good, but quality control issues
Summary: 3 Stars
The first unit we received made a constant loud ticking noise due to expansion and contraction. The noise could be heard clear across the house. Amazon replaced it promptly, and the new unit is basically silent apart from a slight click when the thermostat operates.
This is a neat little unit that works well to heat a small room (it's great in a bathroom), or to "top up" heating in a larger room.
Be aware that there is no simple way to override the timer if you are using the timer and you are in an "off" period. It would have been nice to have a 3-way switch - Off/Timer/On. We simply spin the timer dial around to the next "on" period, but it's easy to forget to reset it when we are done. Other units on the market have more sophisticated digital timer controls which may work better.
You must keep this heater at least 6" from a wall, and even then the wall will get quite warm. So, it's not quite as compact as you might think.
Best use for this heater is to make a bathroom warm first thing in the morning, using the timer.
Customer Review: Very loud cliicking, groaning noises
Summary: 2 Stars
The heater works fine, but as other reviewers have noted, the heating process apparently creates expansion/shrinkage of the heating vanes, and the noise is VERY NOTICEABLE.
This heater is so loud (ironic since it has no moving parts) that it's entirely unsuitable for use in sleeping areas.
I wouldn't buy it again. There's plenty of other choices that do the same thing without waking me up at night.
Customer Review: Great little heater
Summary: 5 Stars
I bought this heater to heat the underside of my bed, My bed has a captain stand with a sheet of plywood over then the foam mattress on top. There was moisture building up between the mattress and the plywood because of the cold from the wall and floor and no air circulation because of the Captain stand being completely enclosed. I know it is not recommended to use in very confined space, but that is what I needed it for and that is the safest heater to use for something like that. It is small and very safe and I do not have to crawl under the bed to turn in on and off. It works fantastically and I am enormously pleased with it. I have it on extremely low and it heats just enough to keep things dry.Customer Review: A good one, but get if outside of Am..on
Summary: 5 Stars
Very good heater, I got two of those, the only drawback is that one of them is noisy - makes the click click sound when stops heating. Otherwise - perfect. It helped to reduce drastically the exorbitant gas bills I was getting this winter.
No leaks, no smells. It works in enclosed spaces, don't expect miracles in open spaces.
Get with confidence, the real price should be around $50, but beware that A.....n manipulates with the price - they raised it from $50-ties to $80ties last winter.
Customer Review: Used with the Anti-Freeze it seemed to work well
Summary: 4 Stars
For quite a while we had used this heater in a basement area to keep pipes from freezing and it worked well for a long time. Unfortunately, the pipes did freeze and it didn't survive getting wet (the GFCI flipped but didn't save it). It wasn't that the heater failed ... it is just that it is rather small, take a close look at the size (7"x18"x15"). So the day it died was due to an uncommonly cold wind that didn't lower the temperature of the basement enough for the antifreeze to come on, but froze and eventually shattered the pipes right at the floor joists.
Because it was oil-filled we didn't want to put it up on anything more than 2 x 10 to keep it off the floor, so be sure about how you want to use it before you buy it. It does very well in the right application.
Again worked great ... but small in size (which is a plus in some applications) so the thermostat could be too far from where you wanted it.