DeLonghi HHP1500 Safeheat Mica Panel Heater

Thursday, January 28, 2010

For Sale DeLonghi HHP1500 Safeheat Mica-Panel Heater

DeLonghi HHP1500 Safeheat Mica-Panel Heater







Product Description
The DeLonghi Safeheat Mica Panel Radiator features thermostatic temperature control, 2 heat settings (max power: 1500W), is wall mountable, and a room thermostat to set and automatically keep the desired room temperature. A convenient carry handle allows for easy portability.

Feature
  • Electric mica-panel heater with 2 heat settings--low or high at 1500 watts
  • Adjustable thermostat automatically maintains desired room temperature
  • Thermal cut-off and water-splash protection for safety; ultra-lightweight
  • Silent operation; carrying handle; wall-mounting bracket included
  • Measures approximately 28 by 4-2/7 by 23-1/5 inches

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CustomerReviews

Just stopped working
I liked the quiet operation of this heater, but at just about one year old it suddenly stopped working. Never abused and only used sparingly to heat room when we were sitting watching television. We only had this heater about 13 months and used less than five months total. I will have to consider alternatives to this type and model of heater.

Supplements central heat where you spend your time ....
Quiet, no fan, heats the area where I sit to read, nap and watch TV very well. Looks good. Allows me to reduce the temperature in the rest of the house and save on my electric bill. Simple in design and to use. Well worth the cost.

Works fine for smaller rooms
The product works as advertised for the small room in which I use it. (Roughly 400 sq ft) I generally set it on full blast for about 30 min to an hour, then adjust the settings to maintain the heat. By then, the room is well heated. It certainly wouldn't be of any use in a decent sized home, but in a small apartment, it works just fine.

Inexcusably unreliable


They're every bit as neat and convenient as the favorable reviews say, while they work. But mine simply stopped working less than two months after the expiry of its twelve month warranty period. Power light continued to light, simply no heating at all. And nothing unusual about mine; well cared for and had only limited intermittent use over the six winter months I'd had it. Delonghi technical service was unhelpful and unsympathetic; no flexibility on the warranty, no offer of repair assistance or advice, other than a telephone number to a Delonghi/ Kenwood repair firm and the advice that it would probably be cheaper to buy a new one ( now just under $90) than to try to repair. All of which would simply be an upsetting individual experience if it were unusual. But it's not. A substantial percentage of the customer ratings on NewEgg report exactly the same experience of the heater having simply to be discarded, unusable, within a short time of the expiry of the warranty. I can only assume that the reason this is not reflected in the Amazon ratings is that these are written shortly after purchase, and before a quite widely experienced drop dead/ throwaway date just outside the warranty period. Be warned!

Heats well but be very careful about location
I just got this heater and have only a few hours of use, but I can conclude that it does function fairly well as a space heater in a moderately sized room (my office which is about 140 sq ft with an 8 ft ceiling and no windows). As an engineer, however, I feel obligated to point out two concerns that might not be apparent from the description.



First, if you intend to mount the heater on a wall the instruction manual specifies a minimum distance of 2.3' (about 27.5") from the bottom of the unit to the floor, and a minimum distance from the top of the heater to the ceiling of 3.28' (about 39.5"). The heater itself is about 19.5" high, so these dimensions add up to more than 7'. In a room with a low ceiling there is precious little flexibility in the mounting height. The 2.3' above the floor requirement did seem suspicious to me. It equates to almost exactly 70cm and I suspected that a translation error from metric in the original Italian manual had multiplied what should be 7cm (the actual height of the removable legs) by 10. So I called DeLonghi and to my surprise they confirmed that the minimum distance above the floor should in fact be 70cm (2.3ft). Keep this height in mind if you intend to wall-mount. The _bottom_ of the heater must be at roughly windowsill height or above.



Second, after operating the unit for a while (on it's legs and well away from a wall) I find that the back panel gets 'way hotter than anything I would be willing to mount just an inch or so from any surface more combustible than a metal or masonry wall. The back panel is too hot to touch, and I believe it would dry out nearby wood or drywall. So my very strong personal opinion is that the heater should NOT be wall-mounted on combustible construction.




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