DeLonghi Convection Panel Heater, Full Room Quiet 1500W, portable electric heater is freestanding/easily wall mounted. Energy Saving, quick heat distribution, timer, white, HCX9115E

6 month review. 4/11/2018DeLonghi HCX9115E (unit)Please read all this review.This heater has changed my way of living with heavy garage traffic usage.I insulated my two car garage (for about 180 bucks) and found my own special way to mount it to the wall studs near the entrance to the attached garage. I covered all walls with expensive decorative 4x8 sheets 1/4th inch, to ensure fire protection. Its plugged into a 20 amp outlet i ran near it. I keep perishables and water along a wall of shelving on the far side of the garage. "Emergency food" in previous years the freezing conditions eventually explodes the product or causes it to freeze. Or makes your garage unbearably cold!If you pull your car in it releases a lot of stored heat, and the unit must kick back onto full blast to reheat. Like opening your front door to the house.I keep it on power saving mode and this has been "on" for over 6 months straight through winter. It kept my entire 2 car garage about 50-65 degrees. But set for 65 during winter in Ohio. Even when it was -8 outside it still performed admirably. Although it is not enough BTU's nor is it designed for this usage but has passed my "test" of doing 'passive power saving heating' this recent winter stress test has really proved to be a strong unit. It has dual fans on the sides pushing airflow in, allowing more heat out the top. Sometimes these fans are off, or on depending on demand. During extreme cold times I select a mode that allows it to draw ALL the power it wants..the 1500 watts. Max power usage and fans on. Obviously this will use a lot of power.There are 10 options:4 Power saving modes (4th has fan on):4 Energy full draw modes (4th has fan on):on:offThere is also a timer however I have not used this option.You can set the temp desired and energy mode is complete silence. Full draw is obviously a fan full speed type mode. louder..Most heater units have a internal coil like an electric stove and a fan placed in front and when there "on" its like your microwave on drawing heavy wattage. This unit has a thin strip of mica or rock like substance in the middle with coils running along the axis, heating the coils causes heat transfer to the "mica", a very consistent heating, the air lofts up through it and out the top allowing cold/warm exchange. Be sure you do not expose this top part to paper or insulation or plants or pictures (i covered my wall with full sheets) as the heat is about 90-110 degrees but distributes heat quickly. Placing this unit in your living room is ideal but be sure your outlet is a 20amp as this is suggested. Leaving this on all winter will likely reduce the amount your heater is running and may even trick your thermostat thinking the house is warmer then it is.This unit can be placed behind a couch on provided stands or on a wall with struts on the carriage (I used a 1/2x4x48inch poplar wood along studs 15 1/2 centers, level, screwed in. Then this is screwed into the wood allowing mounting between studs using very high quality "star" bit screws, i threw away the provided screws as they were inferior.). At the top i used provided mounts however....... I zip-tied the holes to the grill because the mounting holes are VERY difficult to align to the unit. They ask for 24 and 5/8ths or something ridicules to get right on, so the zip ties allow easy install. ***Perhaps largest rooms or entry ways during thanksgiving or busy visiting cold times is best***. it may be best suited for office entrances like Doctors offices, or entryways during winter. This does not BLAST heat into the room but is a passive heater. Do not expect more. it will adjust the heat neded based on incoming temperature.Thanks all for reading to the end i hope this helps! Thumbs up please!

We bought this a year ago to act as auxiliary heat in our 950 sqft house. We run wood heat, but on days it's not quite cold enough to justify a fire, we set this and it can very adeptly heat our entire house. I have been routinely impressed with this heater. It's slim, very quiet on eco mode, and I reckon it's on par with the cost of central heat for the same use. Eco mode does appear to be energy efficient, per my utility bills. On occasion, we run it through the night on eco mode to keep the chill out and have relied on it entirely on days where starting a fire wasn't an option. 5 stars for warmth, reliability, efficiency, and noise level. It's also decently attractive and low profile in our house.

After a couple months, it refuses to turn on, so it's now garbage. I'm not that sad, because in my view this is one of the most atrociously bad user interface designs I've encountered in a long while.A heater is a fairly simple device. An on/off switch, a thermostatic switch or throttle control, a resistive heating element, a fan, and some safety cutoff mechanism to avoid a fire.For starters. an all-button interface is a poor fit for the application, especially for operating in low light conditions. In a product in this price class, ON/OFF should be a lighted switch that can be operated in the dark. Thermostatic control with an up/down button and a digital temperature display might have been OK if you could tell by feel which buttons are up and down but these terrible membrane buttons have no tactile feel -- it's difficult to be sure you're lined up with the button, and the buttons are all aligned in a column with equal spacing, so it's tough to know what button you're pushing without turning on room lights. By contrast, a thermostatic dial could be operated with almost no light. Even distinctly shaped and located buttons would have been OK. But this is not.Same with power switch. It's not lighted, and it's not even a switch, just another identical button.Easily the worst user interface design of anything I've purchased in the last 2 or 3 years.I'd opt for something else unless you enjoy overcomplex, poorly designed human interfaces.spaced absolutely equally apart is a terrible choice. Low lighting? It's going to be difficult to operate without turning on room lights. Worse, the buttons have no tactileHere are the major failures of the design. The buttons are all identical and provide neither tactile feedback nor are they particularly easy to identify in low light conditions. Not only is it difficult to be sure which button does what in a dark room, it's not even that easy to be sure your finger is located over the button.Worse, buttons are the wrong choice. On/off should be a switch (preferably lighted). Temperature control should be a dial, not vague up/down membrane keys. Fan speed can be whatever, but it should be identifiable without turning on room lights.This thing is over-complex, poorly engineered, and illustrates the point that more features mean less useability. It might well be a great heater but it broke and I hated using it and will replace it with something that is a heater rather than a row of vague buttons and "features". Needing to turn on room lights to operate it negates any "features"The best "feature" is good engineering that covers the basics well. More features are fine, but only if the basics are covered well first. In my view this product fails that minimum standard. I recommend you look elsewhere unless you really want a complex device to perform a simple task.