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Mr Heater MH42T Triple Tank-top Propane Heater

Heat output in BTUs: 8, 12, 14, 16, 24, 28, 36 and 42,000 BTU/HR Setting

Safety features: Heater shuts off automatically with loss of flame

MSRP $120

—– A great solution for medium area heating —–

I don’t know about you, but I hate being cold. My office stays freezing 12 months out of the year. There seems to be no way that the air conditioning can be adjusted, it just runs no matter what time of year it is. It can be 39 degrees out and it will still run. The highest the temperature gets is a balmy 58 degrees. Needless to say, the patients and the workers are freezing once they walk inside and that makes it hard to work.

Gas costs TOO much! This is cheap, clean, safe heat!

I wasn’t too sure about the “Micathermic” part (I figured it was just a new word), but the thing is *NOT* a regular radiator/heater. In fact I do believe it’s much better than the red-hot wire or boiling oil heaters. But it’s different.

It kind’a spreads heat out as like a flood lamp spreads light. The only real heat is felt in the area directly in front of the unit. A small amount of heat rises from the unit.

I should start by saying I have purchased three of these units to date (10-8-02). I purchased the first one a couple weeks ago through an on-line dealer (LivinginComfort.com) and after opening the package and turning the unit on high we found the overheat warning buzzer went off as it got hot. The manual states to check to see if a foreign object or objects are in the elements but there was nothing. I’m mechanically inclined so I decided to have a look at the interior components (against manufactures recommendation). Once in we found the thermostat wire looked like it was too close to the elements in a few spots and gently bent them away. This proved to do the trick as the unit is up and working very well.

All across America, people go to work every day to offices that have their thermostats set to “Freezer at Dairy Queen” levels. I work in one such place. I’m cold in the Winter. I’m cold in the Fall. I’m cold in the Spring. I’m even cold in the Summer, save for the few days a year that the air conditioning inexplicably dies. And for those who think I’m being a sissy, I’m usually so cold that my fingernails turn purplish-blue. Yeah. That’s cold.

This is the time of year where I like to play “Chilly Willy The Penguin”..I walk around the house, shivering and pouting because the house is so large and drafty, and my husband doesn’t mind keeping the thermostat on 65 degrees. So, to make my point (and to stay warm when he is home), I wrap a blanket around my shoulders and let him know how f-f-f-freezin it is….

When we installed a solar photovoltaic system on our roof this past summer, I was thrilled with the idea of producing all the energy my house would need. Then the chill of a California winter set in (alright, alright, I know 40 degrees isn’t that cold!) and I realized our gas-powered furnace wouldn’t benefit at all from the solar system.

I bought a pelonis heater from home depot for 40 bux and it broke in 2 days of use. The overheat safety sensors literely burn’t and caused the heater the shutoff for good. It was a loss of money and i didn’t keep the receipt. But i bought the honeywell digital radiator from bestbuy for 60 bux with a 10 dollar 2 year extended warranty. The heater has been working good for the past week and i love the color of it, light grey on black. It already comes with a 5 year warranty directly from the manafacturer! It heats up to full power very quickly on full power 1500 watts, 12.5 amps. I like the digital display because its exact and tells you the temp, unlike most radiator heaters you got to experiment to find the right temp. I live in the basement so i need all the heat i can get so i keep it cranked up on high and it warms the room just enough to keep me comfortable along with my heated blanket. It heats my basement room to around 67-72 degrees max on full power set at 85 degrees. Its very hard to keep the room warm because i have no insulation just concrete and single layer drywall. And its feburary so its very cold. But the heater works good and so far has been very reliable.

"Honey, can you please turn up the heat a bit - it’s freezing up here?"

This was a phrase that was heard frequently the past few winters by my husband, as he made his way upstairs to bed at night. We live in a 3 story townhouse that is heated solely by a heat pump, which for the most part does a pretty good job at keeping our house fairly warm, but on those nights when the temperature drops below freezing - no matter how high the thermostat is set, I just can’t seem to get warm.

I agree in full with the previous comment. I have an office in an industrial complex in Sun Valley Idaho. ( yeah feel sorry for me )

Anyway, as it’s a ski resort town, temp is about 20 during the day and 0 at night. My office is about 600 square feet and it’s TOASTY warm. This unit DOES NOT have a fan regardless of the comments intimating that it does in the previous review. However, this does make it completely silet! No noise at all. The little digital board disconnects from the main unit so you can put it across the room and set it to whatever temp you like. It is wireless and keeps the temp. at whatever you set up to 80 degrees. The idea behind the digital board ( about the size of a deck of cards only oval ) is it regulates the heater from another part of the room to keep the heat even throughout. It gets quite warm but not enough to burn. I had my shoes off and my feet propped up on the top ( hottest part ) and as long as I wiggled around a little it never got too hot. If you have a cold room, or even a couple of rooms, this heater will take care of them.