De'Longhi Dragon Digital Oil Filled Radiator Heater, 1500W Electric Space Heater for indoor use, programmable timer, Energy Saving, full room heater with safety features TRD40615E

This fall, our furnace went out and it was going to be several weeks while we waited for a new heat exchanger to arrive. It was the end of October - early November in the northeast so days were cool and nights were well below freezing. I had an older DeLonghi oil radiator furnace and really liked the even heat they provide and no fan noise. I decided I needed a couple more portable heaters to keep the house warm while we waited for the furnace to be fixed. I purchased two of these heaters and I have no regrets. The older DeLonghi heater had a dial thermostat with 1-10, and it was always difficult to tell where to set it to keep the room comfortable. The old heater would also have a very noticeable click when the thermostat kicked on or off. This new model has eliminated those issues! The digital thermostat is perfect and takes out the guesswork. I set the temperature to 65 and it heats the room to 65. There are some popping noises from the oil starting to circulate when the heater is first turned on, but those go away after about 10 minutes, and it is virtually silent after that. This heater is perfect if you need to supplement heat in a colder room of the house. In fact, now that our furnace is working again I have relocated these heaters to rooms that always stay a little cooler (one in a room over the garage, and one in the basement). These two heaters (along with the older oil radiator heater) kept our 2200 sq ft house comfortable even when temperatures dipped into the lower 20s. I like the look of these compared to the old unit too. It doesn't look as much like a radiator as the fins are hidden by aluminum slats. It's not a beautiful piece of furniture, but it's functional design. Some people feel like a heater must glow bright red and blast out heat like a jet afterburner. This is not that type of heater, nor does it pretend to be. This heater provides a slow even heat that will easily warm up a small room in minutes, while being quiet and safe to the touch. UPDATE: I notice a lot of reviews complaining about some of the odd sounds. Here's my experience. The heater will definitely make some pings and cracks when it is first turned on, and that can be unsettling if you're not expecting it. This is caused by thermal expansion. The unit is at room temperature and when it is turned on the parts of the heater warm up and expands. These sounds subside after the unit has been running for 5-10 minutes. I have also noticed some distinct clicking when the thermostat turns on or off. This is more annoying in a quiet room, and isn't really noticeable if you have any sort of background noise. I have found noticed the clicking is more prevalent when the power level is set to LOW. If I set the power level to HIGH the clicking is still there, but instead of every couple of minutes it might be every 10 or 20 minutes. This is just a guess, but maybe it's because the unit has more ways to cycle when the power is at high (high-med-low-off) vs. low (low-off), and maybe the loudest click is when the thermostat kicks off or comes back on, but setting the power level to high definitely seems to help.

Excellent for a finished basement or the lower level of a split ranch that tends to get chilly in winter. Our HVAC heating has to be cranked in winter just to feel slightly comfortable down here, but then it gets much to hot upstairs, so we resort to wearing a lot of clothes and shoes instead. My husband has even worn his winter hats while being in his office, that is how cold it gets in the lower level of our split ranch. Not anymore! This heater did the trick. I set it to high wattage at 75 degrees for 1 hour to begin warming up the room (after gassing off for 2 hours outside). I placed it in the 21'x11' room with a 9'x7' bathroom attached. The bathroom door was left open. The other issue with this ]room is that it is connected to the door that leads into the unheated laundry/furnace room. From that point there is a door leading outside, so we get a really bad draft from this part of the house. Even with this issue, the room kept very warm at 72 degrees set to medium wattage.I chose to turn it down to 72 degrees and the lowest wattage and it seemed to be just right for keeping it comfortable. I then moved the heater into a different office space downstairs to see what setting would work best in there. The room is actually 2 rooms connected together with an open wall, so it is oddly shaped, like a "U". The overall measurement is probably around 22'x 19. The heater is currently set to 72 at the lowest wattage. The air is nice and warm, although the floors still have a chill, but that is unavoidable with tile floors right over concrete. They do seem less chilly than usual though. I may put down some carpet tiles to help keep the floor warmer for winter. I will be buying another heater so that both rooms will have one. It is likely we will be able to turn the heater down a tad bit more once we have a good flow of heat from both sides of the house. No more cold noses, fingers, legs and frozen feet. I was literally freezing at the legs and feet to the point where It was to unbearable to be in my office space, which also serves as a home school, recording studio, gym and crafting room.You cannot home school a child or create art in the cold, it only serves as a distraction from our work. These heaters are excellent for supplemental heat, but I am not sure about unheated basements. The heater is super quiet! Perfect for my needs. We are recording musicians and cannot have noisy appliances when we're working down here. Now and then you hear a click when heat is kicking back on, but it's not bothersome. In fact, I wish my HVAC was this quiet. With the extra heat, it is likely we will be able to keep the overall temp lower so that the system doesn't constantly kick on. This is just a temporary solution for us until we hire a company to come in and install a gas insert into our useless fireplace down here. Very pleased with this product.

Works quite well, the surrounding floor and wall did not get hot and so I don’t think there was a risk of fire. Apparently these oil filled radiators are much safer than the ceramic ones. The digital programming was simple. It didn’t require an advanced degree to understand.

I have two of these radiator style heaters. The first one is a typical type with normal radiator fins or grills, that unit heats up a room nicely. This De'Longhi Dragon has an Eco-Mode on it, and when the unit is in this mode it doesn't not heat up well. I have to crank the thermostat up to 78 degrees to make it work well enough to get the room to 70, but if I turn off the Eco-Mode then it works fine just like the old one does, and I can turn the thermostat down to 70. The oddity between the two modes is due to this. ECO mode is designed to save electricity by reducing power output and cycling the heater more conservatively. To do that, it allows the room temperature to drift several degrees below the setpoint before kicking back on. So, if you set ECO to 70°F, the heater might not re‑activate until the room drops to around 66–67°F. That feels too cold, so you raise the setpoint to 76–78°F to compensate. ECO mode reduces wattage automatically, in ECO mode it may drop from 1500w to 900W, or 600W, or cycle between them. This means it heats the room more slowly and may never “catch up” unless you raise the thermostat higher. This is normal behavior for De’Longhi ECO mode. If you think about this for a minute you discover that by raising the temp in eco mode to keep it at 70 by 8 or so degrees, vs taking it off of eco mode and setting the temp at 70 degrees to keep it at 70, you are NOT saving any electricity in Eco Mode. Eco mode is a false sense of making people think they are saving money on Eco Mode when the reality is they are not saving any money. The only purpose I can find for the Eco mode is if you are going away for the day or two, you can leave it on Eco mode, and the temp of the room will drop about 8 to 10 or so degrees, but the oil is still warming a bit just on a lower wattage setting, then when you come home you take it off of eco mode and let it heat the room to the temp you have it set for, this way you won't come home to a room that is 20 degrees cooler and take a lot longer to reheat the oil from cold and reheat the room 20 or so degrees. Otherwise, the De'Longhi Dragon works fine, I just don't like the games played by corporations using BS tactics to sell us a product trying to make us think we'll save money. I took a star off due to the Eco-Mode simply being a lie trying to make us think we're saving money but we're not.

Let me start by saying the room size description on the Amazon listing is incorrect. It is listed as suitable for a 250 Sq Ft area. The manufacturer specs is listed as 144 Sq Ft area. 144 Sq Ft makes this heater about 5000 BTU, suitable for a small to medium size room (about 15x20 Ft). This unit will pull about 12.5 AMPS on High (1500 Watts). It is certainly possible to burn your electrical outlet if using an extension cord (not recommended). Remember that most outlets supply 15 Amps and will overload if multiple appliances are plugged into the same outlet as the heater. If you MUST use an extension cord I wouldn't use anything over 10FT and rated no less than 15 AMP (10 Gauge) capacity. I've been running my heater on high 24/7 for the last couple of days and have not had any issues with odor or unusual sounds. Of course we do hear the thermostat clicking on/off but only barely. My wife is a super light sleeper and it doesn't bother her at all in our tiny bedroom. I suspect the unusually loud cracking/popping sound lots of folks are complaining about is due to either poor assembly of the panels or poorly manufactured and treated metal components that are "over" expanding and contracting during heat-up and cool-down cycles which make those annoying sounds. It's the same annoying sound you hear from underneath your car when the Catalytic Converter heat shields expand. I've owned a Trillion (seems like it) Radiant heaters over the last 20 years and I've learned that a properly assembled heater will run very quiet but keep in mind that ALL Radiant type heaters will slightly pop/crackle during cold start but should go away once fully warmed up. So far all is good with my unit. I will certainly update with any issues UPDATE: This heater is fantastic! We live in a 100 year old building that is very drafty and this Winter has been a challenge in keeping comfortably warm. Our annual Winter routine is to put up the cold weather curtains and seal up our windows. This year we also added this heater and have been very surprised by the heat this thing puts out. It really packs a punch for the small size. Can't comment yet on how our electric bill will be affected. It does dry the air but that's expected when set on high. We run a humidifier. Hopefully this thing will last a few years......NOTE: The photos were taken during a 27F Degree day with our window slightly open in a 12x12 room. Didn't need the heater on but wanted to test the accuracy of thermostat. Sometimes my home thermostat shows +/- 1 degree

I almost never leave reviews for anything (while buying a ton on Amazon) but I feel obliged to y’all who are struggling to feel comfortable in your homes during winter. I’ve been doing research for a couple of years now since I bought my house in Dallas. This is a great heater. It’s not fast, but it is built very sturdy and it works with my routine. I have a small (1,000sf) double story house with a skylight in my high ceilings bedroom. I turn this heater on when I wake up and by the time I’m back upstairs to shower and get dressed for work, the temp is very nice. I immediately turn it off because it keeps warm for a while. For my double height living room I use a DREO Solaris slim which for a small heater is doing an amazing job. So between both of them, I am barely using any central heat ($$$) plus I never get anything upstairs anyways, so the radiant heater is an inevitable addition. It’s important to place it where your coldest draft comes from. For me it’s under the skylight. I hope this helps with your research.

Didn't use heater for over a month due to unusually warm weather. Finally used around Thanksgiving. It heated up a small room well enough though it had a faint electrical burning smell. Since then the smell has increased dramatically to the point it stinks up the whole (3000sqft) house in minutes. Smells like burning rubber/oil/electical now. Still heats well but makes you gag in the process. There is a serious defect in this heater. Looking in from the top a partially detached radiator segment can be seen. Looks to have been made that way as the paint shows no sign of damage. Unplugged now.and will attempt replacement or refund. Update: Called DeLonghi customer service. Was disconnected once while on hold after speaking to a rep, second time I called the gentleman advised me that it was referred to their technicians and probably they would send a call tag to be able to inspect the unit before taking any repair/replacement action. Really? This would have passed for customer service in 1960 but not today. The reason I bought the heater in the first place was to stay warm this winter. Now a long wait before I can stay warm again? Not very thoughtful on their part. UPDATE: Commenter for company obviously did not read the text of this as it already addressed all the helpful suggestions offered. After a month of use, burning oil/rubber smell has gotten progressively worse. I am not a rookie. I have had many space heaters including oil filled in my lifetime and none produced this kind of stink after a few hours' use. To be clear, this is not normal. I did call the customer service number and the results are shown in the previous comment. On the second try, I got a person who referred it to their technicians. Said they would call me. Gave me a case number 5530537. No call yet. Still cold here. If this is the best they can do, no more DeLonghi appliances for me and anyone else I can talk out of it. I have bought this brand before with no trouble, but then again, I never had to deal with what they consider to be customer service. Zero stars at this point. Latest UPDATE: After about another week someone did call, did not quibble, and asked where they could send a new unit. Unit received and after a few hours' burn-in, there is no detectable odor when used on ECO setting. When run on non-ECO, max heat, there is a little bit of the smell mentioned in the original post, but not enough to clear the house like the first one. I noticed there had been some other comments similar to mine about the strong smell. Maybe there was a production glitch recognized in the end. Regardless, I now have a working unit that rates 4 stars from me.

I bought this item after an exhaustive review of a ton of space heaters for our non-heated sunroom, where we are quarantining a stray cat for the winter. We needed something that would keep the sunroom at a decent temperature, especially as it can dip below freezing where we live. We wanted something that was quiet to not scare the cat now, and quiet for use later. Most importantly, it had to be safe for both the cat and our home. Family members also recommended oil filled radiator heaters and have used them for years. To be sure, this radiator heater is significantly more expensive than others on the market (though why it costs $40 more for the exact same version in black is beyond me). However, it's made by a well known and respected manufacturer and has safety and energy saving features galore to justify that cost. It heats up quickly, puts out a gentle stream of heat and is keeping our sunroom (easily about 12' x 24') warm. As an example, last night the temperature outside was 28 degrees F - we set the heater to 70 degrees F in Eco mode, and the room stayed between 55 and 60 degrees all night (we use sensors and check frequently on our phone). I also spend many hours in that sunroom in the evenings and found the temperature to be very comfortable in spite of winter's chill outside - the amount of heat this device exudes is fantastic. The heater was super easy to set up - just take it out of the box and plug it in. I was able to do it solo, but it is well packaged so it might be easier to have someone hold the box while you lift the heater out. It has a sleek, modern look to it. It's about 25 lbs and a solid appliance - I like that I didn't have to add oil, or do anything to the device to start using it. Note that this is not a compact heater, so make sure you have plenty of clearance room around for safety. There are no exposed coils to cause sparks/fire and while the fins can get hot, they aren't nearly as dangerous as other space heaters. Keep kids and pets away from the heated device, but that should be the norm for any space heater. I saw the reviews which say the heater pings, makes noises and has a chemical smell. My experience was different - it's super quiet and I didn't smell anything bad, though our sunroom is somewhat drafty which might have helped dissipate any odors. Controls are easy to use (though I'd like to have had a remote control feature) and pretty intuitive. Would have also liked to have a longer cord for portability. All in all, this is a sturdy, robust heater. Quiet, powerful and does what you need it to with a ton of safety features built in. The extra cost is worth it for a quality device, and we don't anticipate having to replace this any time soon. Once the cat quarantine is over, we are looking forward to replacing our existing space heater with this one for comfort and emergencies. Really glad we bought it.

My 2nd unit I purchased. Set the temp you'd like on the front (or set ECO and it will try to keep things near the temperature you'd like), select your wattage (700,800,1500) and then relax and listen to a few "ping" sounds as it warms up. After that: silent heat. This will heat a larger room than they advertise. I've heated my whole 900 sq ft basement with it. It may smell for the first run, so plug it in before you need to use it, away from people, and run it full out for a few hours. Dry the oil residue up. ECO: Keeps you near the right temp, but rarely right on it. Supposedly uses less energy. Timer mode: if the timer is set while it is on, it will heat for that amount of time and switch off. If its set while off it will wait that long before turning on. You can't really set a schedule like some of their older analog models could. Unplugging the unit wipes out your timer and heat settings. This sits on rollers, and the feet tuck under to save a bit of space when you are storing it away. Keep your kids hands off as the outside surface does become pretty dang warm on full power. Not hot enough to burn on a quick touch, but an extended touch might be concerning. I like it so much this is my second purchase.

Originalmente lo vi en una tienda de apartament y me frustré cuando vi que se les había agotado y si lo encargaba tardaba mucho en llegar. Amazon nunca decepciona al tener una gran variedad de productos que podamos necesitar y la rapidez con la que los entrega. Leí respecto de los distintos modelos que ofrece, y consideré que esto es una gran opción, porque el calentamiento del espacio en donde lo colocas es gradual y se mantiene a diferencia de los que son eléctricos. Una vez que ya lo tuve, comprobé que es cierto, y aunque no sea un producto más accesible que otros modelos de otras marcas, su calidad y garantía lo valen .

Unfortunately I didn’t realize it was imported from the US. The product works well at keeping my room warm.

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