Lifesmart Ultimate 8 Element 1800 Square Foot Infrared Heater W Review

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I have bought a Lifesmart heater from Amazon before and it worked great. After reading the 1 bad and 2 good reviews I decided to try out this new 8 element unit. I bought it thru Amazon Prime since I knew they would take it back if we were not happy with the performance. As you can see from my 5 star review we are definitely keeping it. This unit has a really nice cabinet and a much bigger remote than the Lifesmart I bought last year. It also has the same eco 500 watt setting that is great for when it really is not that cold and you just want a little bit of warmth. My wife moves it into the laundry room and closes the door and on 500 watts it heats a small room great. Then at night we turn it up on the 1500 watt setting to make our extra large family room toasty. We use last year's heater in the bedroom upstairs so now were not heating the whole house. The other nice benefit to this heater is that it has a 3 year warranty vs. a 1 year that I noticed was pretty standard. It's nice to know in a throw away world you can buy something for under $200 and know it will work at least 3 years. I now have a Lifesmart sauna, and 2 heaters. We are a big believer in the Lifesmart brand.

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This is a very safe product and looks great too. It is also likely the best one at heating a large room because it can continuously pull a little over 1400W (12-amps) on the high setting, putting out more heat compared to smaller ones and ceramic electric heaters that only really draw about 800W. They may all be rated at "1500W" but none of them really draw that much when warm. Having more elements gives it more heating surface area to dissapate heat, which allows it to pull more power all the time. There are also low and eco settings so it doesn't draw the 1400W if you don't need the extra heat. Because it does draw more power than other units you have to be more conscious of what else is on that circuit so you don't trip the breaker. If you have 15-amp breakers, then this thing will be drawing about 12 amps, so you cannot also run a vacuum cleaner on that circuit or a refrigerator or microwave or other large device.

This is advertised as 1800W in places, but in the owners manual it says 1500W. However, in the same owners manual it says it may draw up to 15 amps, which would indeed be 1800W. In my actual testing it draws about 1440W (12 amps) continuously, which is actually about twice as good as most smaller cheaper ceramic electric heaters or any other wire coil electric heater. I have tested multiple units that draw less than 800W, and my "3-element" LifeSmart portable unit is the best small unit I have able to draw and dissapate just over 900W continuously on high. The fan is not loud, it is also not silent, it needs to get all that heat dissapated and distributed.

The wood is always cool to the touch, doesnt heat up and the power cable doesnt get hot either like some other electric heaters. it will probably look best on carpet, because on a hard floor the legs are above the ground a little bit since it sets on the casters, and the 4 wooden legs are just a bit higher than those wheels. On carpet the wheels will sink a bit so the legs look like they are on the ground. I keep this one at my office and it helps warm up the corner of the building where my cubicle is. It is a large building, about a 20,000 sq-ft floor and our boiler has not worked for a year. It will get down to about 50 degrees inside the building on the coldest nights/mornings, and even when its about 58-62F outside this helps get my corner of the building to 68-70F in a couple hours making it much more comfortable to sit in the cubicles. There are other little personal space heaters on other power circuits helping to warm up the entire floor, but mine is the only one in about 2000sq-ft.

If you just need to keep one person warm, then a $50 ceramic heater would do fine when placed a few feat away from the person, although these IR based units provide a more comfortable temperature of air (not as hot) but more distributed so it can warm up a whole couch or something like that.

So Pros

(1) Great performance, actually providing a lot more heat output than the small cheap ceramic units

(2) Very safe, case does not get warm, has heavy duty power cable, its shuts off from tip over or just knocking it hard

(3) The real wood looks great

(4) The timing settings and remote are nice

I dock one star for the following

(1) I was hoping it would be able to draw at least 1500W continuous with the "8-elements", but at ~1440W its still better than any other forced air electric heater I have tested.

(2) The buttons are a little cheap feeling.

(3) I am not a fan of the beeping when hitting buttons, but only do that when turning it on and setting it up.

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Our house has a heat pump and although the house is well insulated, with 6" exterior walls, the heat pump leaves a lot to be desired the house, in winter, is always cold and the heat pump runs constantly, with the thermostat set at 70 degrees. Last winter I had to set the thermostat to supplemental heat the entire winter and it was still cold so we used space heaters, too our electric bill in January and February were ridiculously high. The Lifesmart Ultimate 8 Element 1800 Square Foot Infrared Heater w/Air Ionizer arrived yesterday afternoon. The house was 74 degrees when it arrived with no heat turned on, just sunshine and a warmer day heating the house, but the temperature by early evening was dropping steadily and there was constant strong cold wind. Overnight it was in the low forties. Today it is only going to reach into the mid-fifties. Unpacked the Lifesmart after it arrived yesterday, turned it to on, and set it to 74 degrees. We didn't turn on the central heat, and around seven o'clock last evening the Lifesmart began heating we monitored the thermometers round the house and they never dropped from 74 degrees by the time we went to bed at 11 p.m. I awoke at 3 a.m. and walked into every room in the house (most rooms have a thermometer hung on the wall or a tabletop display thermometer) and every room was 74 degrees. The Lifesmart is so quiet, too. We are going to buy a smaller Lifesmart for the Master Bedroom, as we keep the door closed to keep the dog and cat out while we sleep. Will update this review next month after the electric bill arrives.

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My order arrived in three days, in perfect condition. The heater is very easy to use and was able to bring the room temperature up 10 degrees in 1:30 and is holding nicely at 68 degrees.. Very quiet. I highly recommend it.

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I just bought this product from the store and found it to be amazing. It does exactly as it says. Heats up my large living room very well, has great features. I absolutely love the furniture look, it fits perfect with my decor, I even use this as a side table to put books on.

I would recommend buying this item!