VonHaus Oil Filled Radiator 6 Fins – 800W – Black

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I have a caravan with Alde heating which I have to say is excellent apart from one thing. The bathroom never gets warm enough. It has a heated towel rail rather than a radiator. I bought this to see if it would just give the bathroom that extra bit of warmth. It works a treat, it's small and compact, has an adjustable thermostat and only 800 watts power (this is deffinately more than enough) I just plug it in to the socket just outside the bathroom and the long power lead enables me to place it in a safe place inside the bathroom. Its quiet, doesnt smell, no open grills for moisture to get into the circuits. Obviously not ideal for every caravan bathroom due the fact it is electric and although its all sealed i wouldnt want to put it close to a water source.

This review is for the small 800w 6 fin radiator.It is a very neat and small radiator which looks rather nice in black and operates silently apart from the odd click of the heating element turning on and off.The radiator works for my needs adding supplementary heat to a smallish room.It is very much worth keeping in mind that for oil filled electric radiators that the power rating is not the same as heat output! The heating element turns on to heat the radiator up and then cuts off when its up to temperature and repeats once it has cooled down slightly.Whilst it does use around 800w whilst heating you'll find that once up to temperature it only heats for about half the time. This means the heat output (as confirmed by an regulatory information leaflet in the box) is only about 400W.I think that this information should be made clearer as if you are comparing a 800w fan heater which continuously heats whilst on to this 800w radiator you'll find you're getting about half the amount of heat as you might have been expecting.Treat this as a 400W heater but obviously it'll transfer heat faster in colder temperatures. This will not heat up a large room and will struggle to keep an un-insulated medium sized room warm.But if this power output is sufficient for you needs then its a great product!4 stars for not making heat output clearer.

I thought this would be a nice little heater for my campervan. I was sceptical as to how such a small unit could transfer 800w of energy into the room as it has such a small surface area, the fins would have to be red hot, but I thought hey its quite cheap let's give it a try. Well it does have an 800w heating element but it also has an internal thermal cut out which shuts the element off when the surface temperature of the heater reaches 75C which happens after only about 10 minutes. This is not the user thermostat shutting off the heater this is an internal cutout. So the heater itself is very hot, the room is still very cold but the heater can't dissipate that heat quickly enough so it's element is actually shut off. I have timed the duty cycle with a room temperature of 16C and once at operating temperature after the first cycle it is on for 5m:45s and off for 9m:20s repeating so the average power consumption is only 285watts. I did complain to the seller and they sent me a second heater which does exactly the same thing. At least I have two of them now but still effectively only have an average of 570watts of heating power. On the plus side it seems quite well made so it would be fine perhaps as a frost heater in a small space but that's about it. Certainly no good for heating a room. You could I suppose place a fan so it blows across the fins which might work quite well but not practical in my campervan.

I've had this for over 2 years now.In the summer it sits tidily under my desk out the way. (I wrap the power lead around the radiator veins to keep it tidy!)In the winter it still sits under my desk but keeps me warm enough to work from home (with the additional support of my heated slipper boot).It heats up quickly and the built in thermostat means even into the late spring I can sneak it on with a low setting first thing in the morning when the wife isn’t looking, and when it gets really cold I just pull it out from under my desk and turn it right up to heat the whole room (3.5 x 5m 'ish) with the door closed.Even on the coldest days, I eventually have to give in and turn it down after a few hours (though to be clear my office is well insulated).All in all a good buy, one of the better things I have purchased online when driven by need, in this case mostly hypothermia while being frozen behind a PC for work.No photo – my office is definitely not Instagram worthy!

I have used this to replace an existing Von Haus radiator in an insulated cat shed. The previous style was more stable both in terms of the width of the base but also the security of the radiator fins that slide into a stand which cannot be tightened to stop the radiator pulling out of the stand. At the other end the fixed stand is very narrow. As a direct comparison to previous model I think it may be slightly taller which once again adds to lack of stability. I have had to secure the radiator to a separate platform using cable ties wrapped around the radiator’s bases at each end - it is now much more stable and would be difficult to knock over. I also note that it heats up quickly and the thermal cut out acts very quickly. This is good and bad - good that the thermal cut out is proven to work but bad because it seems to rely on the thermal cut out as a controller instead of the control knob doing its job. The end result is that the shed is maintained at a cooler temperature than the previous radiator (I am closely monitoring with a thermostatic controller and a separate min/max hygrometer) probably because of the time spent with no power awaiting the thermal cut out to reset.. The previous model worked well and I am only changing due to it having an oil leak - this version, in my view, is a backward step.

First one didn’t work- so Amazon was able to ship me another one at no extra charge. The only thing I would say is the plastic stand that keeps the radiator off the floor surface came off in a day and I wasn’t able to reattach it. But it warms up a large room Very nicely indeed. So I do recommend and apparently those heaters are very cheap to run! So good value for money! Cable could be a little more longer.

A lovely light weight radiator and actually heats a small room