edenpure heaters

[irishfan]

I have been looking at a couple different Edenpure heaters lately with winter coming and was curious what others might think about them. They surely don't heat as cheaply as they say but if they help me cut back on the overall bills then I am interested. Any input whether positive or negative would be appreciated.

 

[gunman41mag]

In my house when it gets cold we use a blanket(if inside of house drops below 70*) If inside of house drop below 60* then I turn on the CENTRAL HEAT

 

[chocktaw2]

I've got one and like it very much. Great for "spot" heating, meaning one room, or a small area. It will dry things out, contrary to advertised claims though. Other than that, I like it.

 

[Hotdoger]

It is a very expensive 1500 watt electric heater.

 

[cburnworth]

I have one & love it. We replaced the furnace last year so we didn't use any of our heaters, but my daughters room is cold still so I might have to use it this winter. I used it along with 4 other heaters before the furnace was replaced & I would say my bill was about the same as using the furnace. I noticed a big difference between it & the oil heaters. I did not notice it drying the air out at all. I would buy a couple more if I needed them. now one thing to be careful of, although it will not start a fire. It will warp the plastic if the exhaust area is blocked.

 

[GodFearinGunTotin]

I have been looking at a couple different Edenpure heaters lately with winter coming and was curious what others might think about them. They surely don't heat as cheaply as they say but if they help me cut back on the overall bills then I am interested. Any input whether positive or negative would be appreciated.

This seems to be a matter of physics to me. I'm not taking a shot at you or anything, but there are only so many ways to produce heat and I doubt that these are some magical, low-cost, heat producing boxes. Instead, the idea is, you turn your thermostat down for your entire house, put this heater in the room(s) you are using most often. You keep those rooms at a comfortable level while the rest of your house is chillier...thus your money savings. Not a bad idea, but I'd have to see if these units can produce a BTU's worth of heat cheaper than some other sources before deciding on its worth.

 

[ralphb72]

It is a very expensive 1500 watt electric heater.

1500W is 1500W whether it is from a ceramic heater, a wire / resistance heater, or a crystal heater, 1500w of energy gets converted from electricity into heat.

It depends on what you heat with now, and how much of your house you are NOT going to heat, whether it will save you money or cost you money. My neighbor has one, she lives alone, and turns her thermostat way down then heats the room she is in with her little heater. She loves it.

Someone else called me and said her electric bill tripled! She was furious. She heats with Gas normally, but got two of these "efficient" quarts heaters and her electric bill was through the roof. I asked her how much her gas bill went down and she couldn't tell me. I told her that if her gas bill went down more then her electric bill went up, then she was saving money.

SOOOooo, it depends, on what you use now and how you use the heater, but it is indead, just an expensive 1500w space heater. I have a "milkhouse" space heater in my garage that cost me $20, it has a fan on it, a thermostat, and two settings 750W and 1500W.

[ame]http://www.amazon.com/Mini-Milkhouse-Heater-750-1501/dp/B0043GAZE8[/ame]

 

[LeeStreet]

Ralphb72 pretty much summed it up. You can only get so much heat out of 1500w. Those amish heaters are a joke, same 1500w. The small heaters are good for zone heating, when the rest of the house is cooler. In my ammo room, I use a paroblic electric heaters just to keep me warm.

 

[Caleb]

Wood heaters ftw

 

[Magneto]

I like mine. If it gets really cold (below 40) I have a oil register heater I turn on low and keeps the upstairs nicely warm. I have thought about another, but might wait until next year.

 

[zip]

I have one and love it. Our house is older (built 1924) and our furnace is about 30 years old. Our Edenpure is good enough to heat the front part of our house to 65 during the day and keep the furnace from running. Saving us about $100 a month over running the gas furnace

 

[EvilBlackGun]

YOUR GOOGLE-SEARCH FEATURE IS BROKEN ???

12 pages of comments there. Basic Best-Hint: buy the clone (same country of origin) at your local hardware, and don't worry shipping it back to BeiChing when it breaks.

I have been looking at a couple different Edenpure heaters lately with winter coming and was curious what others might think about them. They surely don't heat as cheaply as they say but if they help me cut back on the overall bills then I am interested. Any input whether positive or negative would be appreciated.

 

[CountryBoy19]

Save yourself some money and buy the $20 1500W heater at Walmart, it will heat exactly the same as any other 1500W heater.

And the comment about not drying the air out... that is completely bogus unless it has some sort of onboard humidification system.

 

[Rookie]

Look at reiker ceiling fans. It has a built in heater. We use them at night when we turn off the central heat.

Home Page -- Reiker Room Conditioner

 

[bman1962]

You get 3.414 btu's of heat per watt used of electricity regardless if it's Eden Pure or a wall-mart cheapy. Save the extra cash and get a cheap heater if you have to have an electric heater and use the extra money to buy some ammo or part of a reloading set up and shoot alot more!!!

 

[pirate]

Love ours. It knocked our gas bill down about 50 bucks on average over the last 6 years compared to years past.

 

[ralphb72]

Love ours. It knocked our gas bill down about 50 bucks on average over the last 6 years compared to years past.

But, how much did your electric bill go up?

 

[joslar15]

Assuming $0.093 per kWh, using a 1500w heater 10hrs/day comes to $41.85 per month.

 

[Stschil]

Everyone else pretty well sums it up. Electric heat is electric heat is electric heat. We have one. It was purchase by my fiance' prior to us Becoming us. It doesn't do any better of a job than a cheapy chinamart heater of the same size. After a $650 power bill last winter, I installed a wood-stove, which does 10 times the job of keeping the whole 1200 sqft of my house cozy all winter. The cost in firewood for the whole winter will be less than on months electric bill

 

[CountryBoy19]

Everyone else pretty well sums it up. Electric heat is electric heat is electric heat. We have one. It was purchase by my fiance' prior to us Becoming us. It doesn't do any better of a job than a cheapy chinamart heater of the same size. After a $650 power bill last winter, I installed a wood-stove, which does 10 times the job of keeping the whole 1200 sqft of my house cozy all winter. The cost in firewood for the whole winter will be less than on months electric bill

This pretty much sums it all up...

I went to wood not long ago and I love it. Haven't even touched the central heat. I'm heating 4000 SF with a single wood burning unit centrally located in the home... My cost on firewood so far probably comes out to about $50-70/year.

Electric savings is estimated at about $2500-3500/year