Amazon Basics Portable Oil Space Heater with 7 Oil-Filled Fins, 3 Heat Settings, Adjustable Thermostat, Tip-Over and Overheat Protection, ETL Safety Certificate, 1500W, Black

My room is small and has a very large window along with being located at the front of the house, so it’s the chilliest room in the house. Now that the weather keeps dropping lower and lower it’s gets almost too cold to sleep inside to the point where I have to layer up before going to bed. I have a small fan heater that I’ve been using, it works for the most part but the heat doesn’t remain, once you turn it off it goes right back to being very cold within 2-3 min and it only heats up one portion of the room. I was researching oil space heaters and found them to be much more superior to regular electric fan heaters. They take longer to heat up but the heat remains for quite a while even after turning it off. I was surprised to find this item for so cheap compared to its counterparts but lo and behold it works like a charm. Keeps me warm for hours and makes no sound. So in conclusion this is very good purchase for smaller to midsize rooms and I’d recommend just buying the mechanical version over the more expensive version it does the same thing.

This is a pretty good space heater. We put it in our kid’s room since there’s a bit of a chill in there when it gets cold outside. Has three settings: I, II, and III; plus a dial. It works well on II turned to minimum. I’ve put it mid-way between min and max and it gets too warm in his room. This will be the second year we’re using it. It works so well, I bought another one this year for my college student! For the price point, it’s definitely a good buy for a bedroom. Safe, warm- but not too hot to the touch; not very wide, so space-saving.

This heater puts out the heat!! My bedroom is pretty good size, and I have glass french doors out to the balcony, and this heater keeps the room nice a toasty in cold weather. Easy to set up, easy to use. Only complaint is temp control, even on the lowest power setting, it will crank out the heat, and it has a thermostat control, but with no markings at all, so it's a guessing game and you just have to play with it till you find the setting that's best for you. It's sturdy, and while it's tall, it doesn't feel like it want's to tip easily. Not good for around kids, this thing is HOT anywhere other than the handle on the front panel, and we all know kids can't keep their hands off anything!

Amazon’s Portable Space Heater performs like other brands but with a slightly lower selling price. It’s quickly and easily assembled right out of the box. It ‘s able to keep a small bedroom comfortably warm at its lowest setting. It also operates quietly as it cycles off and on. Overall good value for the money.

Not sure why anyone would even keep these, I suppose in a very specific use case they could be fine, but the specifications are not correct and the terrible thermostat makes any reasonable temperature control impossible. The maximum amount of power this unit will draw is only about 900 watts, not 1500 W as is specified. I had multiple units shipped to me, as Amazon said they were defective, and each performed exactly the same. This leads me to believe that it is not in fact defective, but inherent design flaws or rampant and unacceptable levels of manufacturing flaws. All units pulled a maximum of just a little less than 900 watts on hi no matter what conditions I subjected them to. The unit just isn't capable of being set to heat at 1500 watts. The low setting is even lower, likely around 500 from my testing, though the low setting was not at all useful to me, so I did very limited testing. The other major issue, and really only other thing that can be wrong with something this simple, is the thermostat. It's supposed to turn on and off as it detects the temperature in the room fluctuating outside of the temperatures you have set. The thermostat however does not work at all and seems to just randomly display temperatures and come on. If it is an actual thermostat it is comedicly awful, to the point of being completely worthless to even have in the unit. I did extensive testing and the range of it's accuracy seems to be around plus/minus 6 degrees F when the unit is not on. This doesn't seem all that bad except for two important factors, the first being that the unit seems to allow a plus/minus three degree difference from the set temperature before turning on/off. Meaning your room could be as much as 9 degrees colder than you would like before the heater comes on, and heat to as much as 9 degrees over that temperature...well, if it weren't for the terrible thermostat that is. Once you factor the thermostat in the range is closer to plus minus 14 degrees F. However this detects temperature, the heating of the unit itself drastically effect the thermostat reading. In as small 110 sq. ft. room I used this and it started out reading 6 degrees f lower than the actual room temperature on a NIST traceable thermometer. In a matter of less than 15 minutes of being turned on high the unit reported it had raised the room temperature 14 degrees based on it's thermostat. The NIST traceable thermostat registered a 2 degree rise. The unit turned off and continued to cycle, eventually heating the room to 63 degrees after multiple hours of going back and forth between the thermostat reading 57 and 71. The temperature I had it set to was originally 65. At that setting it only heated the room to 60 degrees. I had to turn the unit all the way up to 75 to get it to heat the small room up to 63, while it read anywhere between 57 and 71. At no point did the unit pull more than 890 watts. After an entire 10 hours, even that small of a room never heated to 65. Meanwhile another radiator heater I have heated a room almost 3 times that size to 65 in less than 2 hours, and kept it within plus/minus 1 degree of the set temperature. The thermostat readings on that heater were within plus minus 2 at all times, and it pulled 1500 watts multiple times. I live in southern California, and the nighttime low was in the low 40s when I was running these tests. Subsequent heaters that were sent performed pretty much exactly the same. The design is awful, and the specifications are complete lies. There is no use case for this product, and no chance you will be happy with it unless you want a 900 w heater that doesn't have a working thermostat. I'm extremely disappointed in the product and the time I wasted trying to get it to work. Don't waste your time.

Small size. Works great. Heats a small room perfectly. I have well-insulated small home, in a mild climate area, with a chilly, rainy season - we have temps 5-10° C. for multi-week stretches, but rarely have <0°C. temps. Because of Raynauds, I cannot have blowing air. Moving air riggers episodes and I don't want to wear gloves inside my home [which is what I do at friend's homes and in public venues]. I would love to have radiant floor heat throughout my home, but do not, so I heat just the rooms I am using . My kitchen is warm from cooking activities, my small bathroom can be warmed before showers by a heated towel rack, a back room is kept closed off in cold weather, and my small living room [100 sq ft] is wonderfully heated by this Amazon Basics Oil-filled space heater - it's very economical heater. I have only used it on the lower settings. It is smaller and more efficient than the similar Delongi heater I happily used for 25 years until the switches broke and the power cord started overheating.

This heater is fine and behaves like a normal passive radiator heater. But there's one big piece of false advertising: It's basically only a 900W heater not a 1500W heater! It has three heating modes, I, II, and III, which correspond to approximately 600W, 900W, and "1500W". When it's cold and you turn it on at the highest setting it does briefly hit a nominal 1500W of heating power. However, within 5-6 minutes it jumps back down to 900W. I used a smart watt meter and Home Assistant to graph this. You can see from my graph that it only hits 1500W for about 6 minutes. (actually ~1350W for me due to voltage drop) I assume this is a safety feature and it prevents itself from running at 1500W while hot to reduce fire risk. That's a reasonable thing to do, but it's blatantly false advertising to claim this is a real 1500W heater since in a steady state it only heats at about 900W. It can't provide 1500W continuously. This wouldn't be a problem if this was clearly documented somewhere. And since the heating power of any resistive electric heater is 100% equal to the power consumption, this heater is equivalent to any other 900W heater. It's not at 1500W heater. All that said, it is nice quiet heater that worked well for heating my small office. But it struggles to heat my new larger office because it actually only provides 900W of heating. Only get this heater if 900W of heating is plenty to suit your needs. p.s. It also works well with a smart plug and Home Assistant automation/thermostat. The heater's electronics are simple enough that when a smart plug turns its plug on/off, the heater will return back to its on state. This means you can use an external thermometer along with a smart plug to get some very accurate room temperature control.

I love this thing to keep my bedroom warm enough for me especially when I am cold but everyone else is comfortable with the heat on a lower setting I can get my bedroom warmer for me