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 enlarge | Brand: DeLonghi
List Price: $91.00
Buy New: $69.99
You Save: $21.01 (23%)
Rating:  185 reviews
Color: Light Grey
Autographed: No
Memorabilia: No
Batteries Included: No
Maximum Weight Recommendation (lbs): 50
Shipping Weight (lbs): 29.2
Dimensions (in): 9.5 x 15.8 x 25.6
Warranty: 1
MPN: TRD0715T
Model: TRD0715T
UPC: 044387207157
EAN: 0044387207157
ASIN: B000A33B1C
Availability: Usually ships in 24 hours
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| Customer Reviews:
Showing reviews 6-10 of 10
 Nice little heater November 17, 2008
P. Hess (Newton MA)
I purchased this with some trepidation. There are a lot of options for room space heating and all seem to come with some disadvantages. As this was going in a teenagers attic bedroom, safety and simplicity were very important, as was the ability of the heater to adequately warm the space. I've been pleasantly surprised by how well made this heater appears to be and how effectively it heats the space, maintaining it at a relatively constant temperature for as long as we leave it on. This is after a couple of months of use, though admittedly not in the coldest part of the year.
 Fades quickly! November 16, 2008
L. Via (Temple, Texas USA)
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
This product worked great for about six weeks. I bought two at the same time for our house. One of them just stopped working. The other lasted until the next season. We live in Texas, so a "season" is really about eight weeks of use, at most. After about nine to ten weeks of TOTAL use (we only had them on for about four hours a day, in the evening), the other stopped working. These heaters were never mistreated and they were stored indoors. Now we have two heaters that look brand new and generate zero heat. Very disappointing.
This is a great heater November 16, 2008
Jeff Frasier (Mansfield, Ga. USA)
I bought this heater last year when LP got so expensive. It did a great job. Yes, if you read the manual it tells you to run it on high outside or in ventilated room for 2 hours to burn the smell off, after this mine has no more smell.
These radiator heaters do not heat real fast but once you find the settings that work for your situation and the temp gets up to your preference it stays there. I recommend running a ceiling fan on low speed, blowing up while using this heater and this spreads the warmth much better. This type oil filled heater is very efficient. They do not dry the air out like the fan forced heaters and makes NO sound except for a click when cycling on and off. It's just a slow, smooth, consistent heat that flows off the unit without it getting real hot to the touch.
A few reviews down someone mentioned not having electronics. I found a model real similar to this one on the Delonghi website that has electronics and a remote and it automatically switches between off, low, med & high setting based on the temperature difference which saves energy. I bought 2 more of this model. I heat the entire 1800 square foot house with these 3 heaters and ceiling fans. I have yet to turn on the central heat, doubt I will all year. I will report back once I get my electric bill next month. It could not possibly be as much as the LP bill would be.
I recommend this heater and the model with the electronics.
Exceptionally effective supplementary heat November 12, 2008
K. Livingston (Millbrook, New York USA)
We purchased two of these as a way of minimizing use of central heating in our big old house and we've been delighted with them. The oil holds heat for a very long time once it gets hot, and we've been able to reduce the thermostat setting by just placing these in the rooms we're using at the time. To our surprise there was a smaller impact on the electric bill than we expected, but a big drop in our oil use. Just be sure to follow the instructions to run them full on for a few hours outside to burn off the coating they put on them at the factory.
Not bad for a space heater November 10, 2008
P. Rizzuto (Boston, MA)
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
We bought two Delonghi TRD715T heaters to use as supplemental heating to our oil. We put one in our 2 year old son's room and one in the living room. The three power settings are great for finding a good performance level without using the full 1500w most other heaters use, saving a lot on electricity. If I turn on the heater about 30 minutes before my son goes to sleep, it keeps his room at a nice temperature for cold nights. As others have said, it takes a little while to get up to operating temperature, but that's only because it needs to heat the oil instead of having a heating element that heats up almost instantly.
The only thing from keeping me giving the heaters a 5 star rating is the lack of digital controls. The "96 timing options" are just a set of 96 little dip switches on the front of the unit. You turn the entire dial so the arrow points to the approximate time, then you set the dip switches up or down depending on whether you want the unit to turn on or turn off. It's very very tedious, and difficult to set correctly.
The other problem is there is no temperature control except for a slider below the power dial. Slide it to the left and it sets a lower temperature. Slide it to right and it's higher. It took a few days to find the right setting for that slider so that my son's room was neither too hot nor too cold.
For such a nice looking and working unit, not having digital controls and a temperature setting cheapens it quite a bit. If it had these controls, it would have been a solid 5 star rating, and I probably would have bought another one for our kitchen area, which gets cold during the winter.
For those who don't mind fiddling with 96 dip switches and a slider for temperature, this is a good unit at a fair price.
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