As for comfort, let me say I love being toasty warm and this unit does the job. It will heat up to one thousand square feet. It will not work well if you have cathedral ceilings, nor will any other heater. The castors make it easy to move from room to room if you want.
We bought this heater on the recommendation of several friends who have owned this heater for several years and all are happy with it and have had no problems. At this time we have only one of these heaters, but are considering buying a second one this winter to place in another area of our home.
Another nice feature of this heater is that it contains four 375 Watt infra-red lamps that can be replaced by the consumer. Other heaters have bulbs that are hard-wired making it necessary to have them replaced by the maker.
This unit has a simple thermostat, not the digital display type with many selections. My husband loves this feature because we already have too many appliaces and electronics with confusing digital displays.
Highly recommended!
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I bought one of these 4 years ago. I read the description here on Amazon and I chuckled. 700 sq feet of heating? For $1 a day? Right. It's a 1500 watt heater. It doesn't say that anywhere in the description of course. Notice there are no specs provided. No measured "BTU" rating so who knows how much heat is coming out of it? I do. Little to very little. The unit itself looks almost crude at the back where the thermostat and filter are. Almost like a home-made deal. I don't care about that though. I wanted something to keep the chill out of a decent size room upstairs in my house. The room is 15 x 20 ft and has a low ceiling. 300 sq feet. Well insulated. (Former attic space). This unit does heat it up but only if I turn it on 3 days before I plan on going up there. Sadly, it blows a very very gentle warm breeze that you can feel only if you stick your hand directly in the front of it. When they say "soft heat", they mean feather soft. So soft, you can't even feel the heat. It's pretty heavy but the casters do move it around easier. I tried to sell it a couple different times but got no takers. I think I paid $375 for mine but that was around 4 years ago. Maybe 5. I replaced it with 3-425 watt convection wall panels. That's 1275 watts. They too are slow to heat, but they're dead silent and it gets toasty in there far quicker. By the way, don't let ANY company tell you how much something costs to operate other than your power company. You pay for "watts". Volts multiplied by amps. The lower the watts, the cheaper it will be to run though if you get something too small, it's ineffective and could end up costing you more because it never turns off. Which brings us back to this Sun Cloud heater....Best Deals for Sun Cloud Solar Comfort KD8000 Portable Infrared Heater, Classic Oak
This particular infrared heater is a pretty solidly built unit. Definitely seems higher quality than all the other infrared heaters on the market.I use it in my small basement and it does ok in keeping it fairly warm. Unfortunately, the thermostat is more like an on off dial as opposed to a real thermostat that cycles the heater on/off. The unit will either be on all the time or off all the time. But I've never had a portable heater from any brand that had a working thermostat.
Now...is the Solar Comfort worth $500? I would say no. It does not heat any better than your avg portable heater from Lowes, Home Depot, Target, etc. And, those units only cost around $100. Although all the previous cheapo units I've bought only lasted 3-4years...for $500...you could buy 5 cheapo units for the price of 1 Solar Comfort.
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My house is a small one, about 800 square feet of space. I live in upstate New York, just east of Lake Ontario, and when it's not snowing off the lake, it's cold, just the same. Winters are usually not mild ones. My house is set to be heated with electric baseboard heat, and I have a Timberline fireplace insert that will heat the whole house should I want to use wood. About six years ago, I bought a 1500 watt Sun Cloud zone heater, which is rated for up to 800 square feet of space. It is thermostat controlled and uses four 375 watt infrared bulbs to provide the heat. The bulbs heat many flagella like tubes through which the heated air is blown and out into the room. It looks much like every other similar heater being sold these days, but the inner shell is metal and the outer shell is wood (oak, cherry or mahogany). What makes this heater so much better than other designs is that you don't have to send it back to the manufacturer for repairs. Anything that might go wrong can easily be fixed locally if necessary. The bulbs can be found at your local electric store, and so can the thermostat or blower. Parts are simple, not complex, and your local handyman can repair it easily! I have been using this heater for all the cold months that I have owned it, and if the outside temperature stays about 30 degrees, the house never gets chilly. Anything below 30 degrees will drop the temp to say 67 degrees, but I just augment the house temp with my baseboard heat and everything is toasty. Since the unit is thermostatically controlled, it cycles on and off as necessary, but even if it ran all night and day, it would only use 1.5 kilowatt/hours of electricity per hour, times 24 hours which equals 36 kilowatt hours of electricity per day! Multiply that by your local electricity rate (say 10 cents per kilowatt hour of usage), and you can readily see that it cannot cost more to use than $3.60 per day! As I said, the thermostat allows it to cycle on and off, so for most people, it will cost less than $3.60 per day to use. I am so happy with my unit that I bought two more units to augment my mother's home, which has more than double the floor space that my home has. She heats with oil and uses from 3 to 5 gallons per day in the winter months. With oil prices soaring, she should save money using Sun Cloud.Find helpful customer reviews and review ratings for Sun Cloud Solar Comfort KD8000 Portable Infrared Heater, Classic Oak
I bought my Solar Comfort Heater after a lot of research.I believe I made the right choice.I have an electric furnace because I like clean air.The price of electricity keeps going up.My budget always increases in January.Not this year,even with the riseing costs of electricity my budget came down 8% and I have only had it for 3 months.Thats not a lot.I think it will even be better next January.With the riseing cost of everything it's nice to see something come down.And as for the cheap heaters,there have been 2 fires so far this winter in my area cause by them.So I glad that my Solar Comfort Heater will not cause a fire and still keep me warm.You don't know me but I have a fear of fire and I feel safe with this heater,enough said.
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