Honeywell HZ-709 7 Fin Oil Filled Radiator Heater with Digital Controls
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Tools and Hardware Reviews of Honeywell HZ-709 7 Fin Oil Filled Radiator Heater with Digital Controls
Customer Review: Doesn't shut off heat when it goes above temperature
Summary: 2 Stars
We heat our whole house with oil filled heaters. We love them, but after a while you have to replace them (~6 to 10 years, depending). I very much prefer the ones with digital thermostats as I can just set them to the room temperature I want and don't have to be adjusting them constantly...very nice. But I've noticed that they also tend to wear out faster. We've only had this one for two years and after about one year it would just come on and stay on. I'd have it set for 73F and it would get to 85F and still be running, so it would way over heat the room. It got so that I had to turn it off at night so it wouldn't over heat the room. This radiator will really heat up a room fast though, so turning it on first thing in the morning is great. But I really want it to just regulate itself and not need me turning it on and off...otherwise I'd just use the ones that have lo-med-high settings rather than a digital display. I am presently shopping for a new one and certainly am steering clear of this one.Customer Review: Quiet
Summary: 5 Stars
I just bought this unit from Target, and it is great.
First of all, it is very quiet. The only noise is makes is the sound of oil percolating around in metal housing, which is actually soothing. It is powerful enough to heat our average size bedroom (about 15'x15') even on the lowest setting, and it is below freezing outside.
It is really nice to have a thermostat. You can set it and it will keep your room at a constant temperature. The non-digital model is about $20 cheaper, but just get this one. I've used heaters with no thermostat, and you can never get it to hold constant at a nice temperature. You will wake up too hot or too cold.
The Honeywell costs a little more than the cheap-o brand, but it is WELL worth it. The first radiator heater I bought was cheap-o from Walmart. It made a really loud electrical arcing noise every time it kicked on. It was loud enough to wake us up. It sounded like those weapons from War of the Worlds.
Customer Review: A complete lemon.
Summary: 1 Stars
I don't know what's going on with this heater. I bought this model last October from Amazon. It had recently come on the market. It worked fine for three months and then started slowly dying. It would shut off after fifteen minutes, then it became ten minutes, and finally after five months or so, it wouldn't stay on for more than a minute. When I went back on Amazon, I saw several other people complaining about the same defect. I called Kaz, the company that makes these Honeywell heaters, and they tried to tell me that the problem was with another version of this heater, and that my model was working fine. Now I find this heater listed on Amazon without any of the negative consumer reviews that it had earlier. Are we to believe this is a newer (supposedly problem-free) version of the old lemon? If so, the company should clearly state so somewhere and recall the old model with full money-back to buyers.Customer Review: Thermostat does not work
Summary: 1 Stars
We lower our thermostats to 58F at night in the winter. I bought this to heat the room where my 1.5 year old grandchild sleeps.
I tested it for about 3 days in my office. The heater made the room about 5-10F warmer than the thermostat indicated. I thought I could solve that by setting the thermostat lower than I wanted.
The first night I used it with our grandchild, I set it to 65F. Sometime in the early morning, we heard our grandchild crying. I went into the room and it was 95F. The thermostat for the heater was still reading somewhere around 65F.
To make matters worse, the packaging said that if there were any problems, the heater should be returned to Katz, not even to Honeywell and not the place of purchase. So I was expected to disassemble it, repackage it and ship it???
I have lost all respect for Honeywell.
Customer Review: Gets warm but not if you are over 15 inches away
Summary: 3 Stars
I bought this at Walmart when an ice storm hit. We plugged this into our emergency generator and this "Large room" heater is not a "Large room" heater. Our living room is rather large and the temperature in the room has risen above a very cold 50 to about 64 since we have had this running... for NINE hours. nine hours to raise the temp 14 degrees in the room. I will give this a try in the master bedroom tonight where we have moved our pre-teens in with us until we get full power restored. May be it will warm up the bedroom. My only real issue is that this is marketed as a "Large room" heater and it just isn't. Medium - maybe.. small.. sure. Wally world had this for $65 and it was the last one. All the other heaters left over were marketed as small or medium room - so you can see why I am irritated that this didn't perform as expected.