Holmes HFH2986-U Whisper Quiet Power Heater
From Holmes
This attractive unit carries an exclusive patented fan design that makes it an extremely quiet heater. If you have it on while sleeping or working, you won't be disturbed. 1-Touch® controls let you change temperature settings with the touch of one button.
- Amazon Sales Rank: #37757 in Kitchen & Housewares
- Color: White
- Brand: Holmes
- Model: HFH2986-U
- Dimensions: 11.50" h x 9.09" w x 10.98" l, .0 pounds
Great heater for the price!
Living in MN our below gound family room can get pretty chilly. We are very pleased at how well this heater warms the room and how quiet it is. When the heater is on our family room becomes the warmest room in the house, allowing us to keep the centeral heat turned down lower than we did before we bought the space heater. Worth the money.
Thermostat mode is a JOKE and an AFTERTHOUGHT!
There are much better working heaters out there for the money. I've had the Holmes 'One-Touch' for over a year now, and although it does provide OK heat in manual (constant on) mode, it does not work well at all in thermostat mode. The unit turns on for only perhaps a minute or two, then shuts off for a much longer period of time. It does not seem to have a temperature sensor to control the unit's thermostat, and thus keep an area heated properly. The unit would have been better off if it had a timer, where you could set it to let's say turn on for 5 minutes, then off for 10, or whatever else time intervals you would need to properly keep your area heated. This is a major shortcoming, since you don't want to keep your space heater on constantly for long periods of time (fire hazard), and you must rely on a thermostat or timer mode to keep the unit on in intervals.
A few problems
I bought this heater in December '07.
On the plus side:
It's quiet.
It puts out a good amount of heat when it's on.
On the negative side:
The thermostat is quite inaccurate. Its 80 degrees is more like 72 degrees.
There is no way to keep the heater on all the time. Even in non-thermostat mode, it shuts itself off when the room temperature reaches 75 degrees. It will not turn itself on again until the room cools down AND the heater is turned off then back on.
After about 3 months, the single control button started malfunctioning. It either will not register a push or registers multiple pushes per per push. It makes operation an annoying guessing game.
I don't recommend this heater.
