Ontel Handy Heater | Plug-In Personal Heater | Heat Boss | Compact Design | Quick and Easy Heat | Digital Display | Great for Travel | On/Off with Timer

This small heater works really good for the camper. I bought it to plug in but my plug was a little low in my teardrop so I decided to mount it up a bit higher and use a 3 foot 10amp ( 16 GA) extension cord. I tested the unit and it pulls under 4 amps on high speed then drops to under 1 amp when only the fan is blowing. The controls are easy to use. My camper is only 15X7 and it heats it up very quickly. The heater is very lightweight. I bought a second heater to keep as a spare in case I ever have a problem with this one but it seems very well built. I read the negative reviews but this is not designed to be a large space heater as your normal plug in units. This is for a single small room or for a small RV it is perfect. Even as a small heater for a bedroom where you want a little more heat this thing would be perfect with the door closed. It gets hot in the very front where the metal grill is but the sides and back and top do not get hot at all. The unit pulls air flow from the bottom thus it is designed to plug directly into the wall. Also the plug in the back rotates in case your outlet is upside down or sideways, the heater could still be positioned vertically.

I bought mine just over a year ago, finally needed to use it this winter in Arizona. I have a larger oscillating heater for the main part of the house, but it doesn't have a thermostat or asuto shut off, which makes me nervous. It heats most of the house fairly well, but the furthest room is still a little chilly. I might get 2 more of these instead, one for each end of the house.I put it in my bedroom (fairly large -- queen bed with big bed frame, 2 bedside tables, a large dresser, vanity desk, and plenty of room to walk around everything) so I set the heatrr at 90°, thinking it'd need that to properly heat the entire room. Within an hour I was roasting! Reset the thermostat to 60° (what I like) and it was perfect all night. Not too noisy, and I like that it shut off at temperature. I have a thermometer in my alarm clock, as far away from the heater as possible, once I set it to 60°, the thermometer was always between 60.0° - 60.9° and it was 47° outside, per my phone. I love what this tiny thing can do! If it had a remote it'd be absolutely perfect, but I guess it's not too necessary with the thermostat and auto shut-off.

I'm kind of surprised at all the negative reviews for this product. I have several of these heaters, and I got the first one over a year ago. They have several nice features, such as auto shut off, 2 speed fan, and thermostatic control. They are low wattage, which is a mixed blessing. You can plug them in anywhere, and not worry about tripping a breaker. But they definitely won't heat a big space. If you have a small office, they work great. I pack one in my suitcase and plug it in the motel bathroom to keep it toasty warm. They work best as supplemental heat, I wouldn't use it as a primary heat source. But it's perfect for the little chilly room that the main heat pump just doesn't keep as warm as the rest of the house, or the bathroom that's a little too chilly.

It only puts out 75W on full power. Also, mine will only show degrees C, not F. The fan is pretty loud for how little air it moves.Update: Changed from 1 star to 2 stars.I gave this another shot. It's not as bad as the above sounds--true as it is. There's just more to the story. But first, it's also worse. The "timer" button only seems to do the exact thing that the "speed" button does--switch the fan speed between high an low. Low fan speed isn't quiet, but it's tolerable for how close you are going to need to be to this thing for it to warm you. High fan speed is obnoxiously loud. But you should just avoid high fan speed, because of the power-draw quirk of this heater.The quirk is this:Under the right circumstances, the heater will slowly draw more and more power (about a Watt every 5 seconds or so), up to about 250W. Then it cuts power to the heating element for about 5 seconds, dropping the power draw to anywhere between 100-200W, at which point it starts slowly increasing toward 250W again.But all of that is "under the right circumstances." And what are those? Well, you seem to have to get it up past 100W or so to get it to start claiming. Otherwise it seems to level out at 75W and be happy there. To get it over the hump, I have to restrict the inlet airflow a bit. This lets the heating element get hotter which seems to increase the electrical resistance in the element and make it get hotter and hotter. Getting it over 100W was the key with an ambient temp of 75F. It may require more airflow restriction with lower ambient temps--which is of course the normal usage pattern.

very portable and functions perfectly. It is very strong and warms a room quickly. It doesn't leave a smell and doesn't use a bunch of power.