DeLonghi Dragon Digital Oil Filled Radiator Heater, 1500W Electric Space Heater for indoor use, programmable timer, Energy Saving, full room heater with safety features TRD40615EBK, 16"x10"x26", Black

I bought this item after an exhaustive review of a ton of space heaters for our non-heated sunroom, where we are quarantining a stray cat for the winter. We needed something that would keep the sunroom at a decent temperature, especially as it can dip below freezing where we live. We wanted something that was quiet to not scare the cat now, and quiet for use later. Most importantly, it had to be safe for both the cat and our home. Family members also recommended oil filled radiator heaters and have used them for years.To be sure, this radiator heater is significantly more expensive than others on the market (though why it costs $40 more for the exact same version in black is beyond me). However, it's made by a well known and respected manufacturer and has safety and energy saving features galore to justify that cost. It heats up quickly, puts out a gentle stream of heat and is keeping our sunroom (easily about 12' x 24') warm. As an example, last night the temperature outside was 28 degrees F - we set the heater to 70 degrees F in Eco mode, and the room stayed between 55 and 60 degrees all night (we use sensors and check frequently on our phone). I also spend many hours in that sunroom in the evenings and found the temperature to be very comfortable in spite of winter's chill outside - the amount of heat this device exudes is fantastic.The heater was super easy to set up - just take it out of the box and plug it in. I was able to do it solo, but it is well packaged so it might be easier to have someone hold the box while you lift the heater out. It has a sleek, modern look to it. It's about 25 lbs and a solid appliance - I like that I didn't have to add oil, or do anything to the device to start using it. Note that this is not a compact heater, so make sure you have plenty of clearance room around for safety. There are no exposed coils to cause sparks/fire and while the fins can get hot, they aren't nearly as dangerous as other space heaters. Keep kids and pets away from the heated device, but that should be the norm for any space heater.I saw the reviews which say the heater pings, makes noises and has a chemical smell. My experience was different - it's super quiet and I didn't smell anything bad, though our sunroom is somewhat drafty which might have helped dissipate any odors. Controls are easy to use (though I'd like to have had a remote control feature) and pretty intuitive. Would have also liked to have a longer cord for portability.All in all, this is a sturdy, robust heater. Quiet, powerful and does what you need it to with a ton of safety features built in. The extra cost is worth it for a quality device, and we don't anticipate having to replace this any time soon. Once the cat quarantine is over, we are looking forward to replacing our existing space heater with this one for comfort and emergencies. Really glad we bought it.

These are great. I just purchase a second one for another room. The first, purchased in 2021, still going every single day of every year for about 8 hrs a day.Just purchased another one for another room. This one is running about 8 hrs daily but only in the winter. So far, it's been completely and totally quiet.PROS:- once the room gets to the desired temperature, it will stay at that temperature. when the thermostat turns it off, it remains hot and continues to warm the room.- the built-in shroud around the unit works to protect direct contact with the hot metal as it should, plus it makes the unit look a lot classier than some of the inexpensive ones.- once the small 4 legs are pulled outward, the unit is very sturdy. Don't go throwing yourself on it as a test. the legs have wheels, so the unit can be moved.- it's quiet. i've had no issues with metal expansion sounds when they were new or old.CONS:- heats up the room slowly. have a little patience.- price [?]

So, this was my first review: Please read down the the UPDATE. The unit got much better after the first power cycle.We understand this radiant heat, not an air heater, but it's not getting the job done.We put this in our office, where the three of us live most of the day, so we could turn off the house heat.Even set at 80, my wife, 6ft from the heater is still cold.Prior to this, we were using a forced air heater at about 65-67 deg.I'm wondering if we can mod this heater to remove the side fences and maybe the heat will reach further...Anyone have experience with that?UPDATED: MUCH IMPROVED PERFORMANCEAfter three days continuous running, we decided to power down the unit, flip it over, and examine how the side fence is connected to the unit, to see if we could simply unbolt it. Well the "fence", as I call it, is integral to the unit itself, it does not unbolt. Okay. So we flip the unit right side up, plug it back in and power it back up. Within an hour it got quite hot. Now the unit is keeping this room quite warm. In fact, you can feel the heat down the hall approaching this room.I cannot explain why the performance improved after the power cycle, but it did. Perhaps customer support or an engineer can chime in here and say why the second time 'round the unit got much hotter.So, when the unit finally got hot, it gave off a bit of an odor. Not a real bad odor, but, ironically, it smelled like something new, metal and hot. After a few hours the odor dissipated. Now the odor is completely t's gone.Other than that, we've noticed a few tiny "ping" "pop" noises when we first power up the unit. No surprise there. If room wasn't quiet, we would not have heard them. Maybe four or five pings the first two minutes of power. After that, the unit is silent. I mean, it's really quiet. If you're considering a radiant heat unit like this to replace a loud ceramic space heater, you could do much worse. I love how quiet this unit is... i mean, it's silent.And it's getting the job done. This office we live in most of our waking hours is comfy cozy warm. You don't really notice that the heater is running, you're just comfortable. You don't hear it, and you don't feel a hot blow or hairdryer effect on you like the ceramic heater or the central forced air. You only notice when you leave the room, get cold, and run back to the comfort of this warm office.If you read this review a week ago, I hope you've also read this update.I may buy a second unit for the cavernous master bath in this house.Returning to this review a few years later. I now own five of these units and I'm ordering two more today. We no longer boil water on the stove to keep the air comfortable in the house, because we're not subject to the hot dry air of our central forced air system. I've got one unit in each bedroom, one in the master bath, and one in the office. Today I'm ordering two move for the cavernous den, one for each end of the room.

I have two of these radiator style heaters. The first one is a typical type with normal radiator fins or grills, that unit heats up a room nicely. This De'Longhi Dragon has an Eco-Mode on it, and when the unit is in this mode it doesn't not heat up well. I have to crank the thermostat up to 78 degrees to make it work well enough to get the room to 70, but if I turn off the Eco-Mode then it works fine just like the old one does, and I can turn the thermostat down to 70.The oddity between the two modes is due to this. ECO mode is designed to save electricity by reducing power output and cycling the heater more conservatively. To do that, it allows the room temperature to drift several degrees below the setpoint before kicking back on. So, if you set ECO to 70°F, the heater might not re‑activate until the room drops to around 66–67°F. That feels too cold, so you raise the setpoint to 76–78°F to compensate. ECO mode reduces wattage automatically, in ECO mode it may drop from 1500w to 900W, or 600W, or cycle between them. This means it heats the room more slowly and may never “catch up” unless you raise the thermostat higher.This is normal behavior for De’Longhi ECO mode.If you think about this for a minute you discover that by raising the temp in eco mode to keep it at 70 by 8 or so degrees, vs taking it off of eco mode and setting the temp at 70 degrees to keep it at 70, you are NOT saving any electricity in Eco Mode. Eco mode is a false sense of making people think they are saving money on Eco Mode when the reality is they are not saving any money.The only purpose I can find for the Eco mode is if you are going away for the day or two, you can leave it on Eco mode, and the temp of the room will drop about 8 to 10 or so degrees, but the oil is still warming a bit just on a lower wattage setting, then when you come home you take it off of eco mode and let it heat the room to the temp you have it set for, this way you won't come home to a room that is 20 degrees cooler and take a lot longer to reheat the oil from cold and reheat the room 20 or so degrees.Otherwise, the De'Longhi Dragon works fine, I just don't like the games played by corporations using BS tactics to sell us a product trying to make us think we'll save money.I took a star off due to the Eco-Mode simply being a lie trying to make us think we're saving money but we're not.

We have been renovating a 90’s build house and needless to say the house is drafty. Our master bedroom and master bathroom are significantly cooler than the rest of the house in the winter. Sometimes they have even been cold. I found this heater and was impressed with its features. I was not prepared for how nice this unit was. It arrived very well packaged and in perfect condition. Upon setting the feet into the correct position on the unit and plugging it in I found it to be extremely intuitive, convenient, and powerful. It has a digital thermostat, just like an AC/ heating unit, and power settings. I have 4 children 8 years old and under and two dogs and no one has burned themselves because of the design. The outer metal allows for greater heat distribution while also allowing the outer metal to be hot enough to reinforce the lesson we taught them not to touch it but not hot enough to burn them. Peace of mind in that safety. It also has a tip over sensor and safety switch. It’s very powerful for its size. Our master bedroom is quite abnormally large. It’s 16’ x 28’ with 10’ ceilings. And it heats so well that the first night when the outdoor temp was 26 degrees F we had to turn off the unit because our room was so hot. We had set it to 73 degrees and full power thinking it might struggle to put off enough heat as it was rated for only a 140’ sqft room. It’s not even listed in the specifications for a room that large. We now set it to 70 degrees and mid power and our room stays the perfect temp all night. We loved it so much we bought a second one for the master bathroom. Now our entire master suite is warm and comfortable! This thing was an answer to a sincere prayer. I feel happier living in our warm home and grateful to be living here instead of wondering what the heck I was thinking when I decided to buy a house with good bones in a great area but that required a bunch of work. After the work is finished and the house is sealed up I won’t need these anymore per say but I will never be giving these away. Of all my purchases this year this may be my favorite. Also, they are very gentle on the energy bill as well. Post covid we all need that. At least we do. I hope this novel of a review helps someone with their decision.Also, some buyers mentioned a loud clicking noise. I believe they did experience what they said. However, with the two that we own we have had no such issues. I am a light sleeper and I could not rest if they made any significant noises. The reviewers did state that they contacted the company and were giving replacements that did not experience the same issue. If I had to guess their units were most likely damaged during shipping. Best of luck and if your house is drafty I believe this may be the best option. Also, if it can’t fix it I believe the issue is more significant. Like there is open access to outside (massive cracks along doors or windows) or there is poor or no insulation. No amount of the heaters can responsibly be expected to combat that level of heat exchange.

I just spent a crazy amount of time researching oil-filled radiator heaters (OFRHs), and Amazon has a LOT of them! I am reticent to admit exactly how much time I spent comparing & contrasting individual OFR heaters, because it's hard for people to understand why I am so nit picky and exacting when I research something that I'm going to buy. It's because most everything breaks or otherwise stops working now, so you have to replace many if not most mechanical / electronic items you buy (I'm beginning to wonder if there are "permanent breakdown" computer chips in some things, forcing you to buy new items every couple/few years anyway... on top of being cheap Chinese junk).In my experience, the lifespan of low to mid-range OFRHs is normally 1, at most 2 years. So a 3-year manufacturer's warranty will be great! And there's no need to buy an additional warranty because they run concurrent to the manufacturer's warranty (somewhat related side tangent: I've never dealt with Asurion, but Allstate is a total scam. If you call in with a valid claim, they will ask several questions until they hit on one that you answered the opposite of how you "should" have. Then they'll say "Sorry.. You're excluded from coverage. Just read your contract" (which basically negates and nullifies their ads, which lead you to believe you're covered. In reality, there are so many exclusions that what they are offering is nothing but smike & mirrors).Anyway, I have two parrots that I keep in an unheated room. Since they're tropical birds, and since it can get as low as 0 F or even minus 10 outside (50s in their room) it's imperative that the heat remains on for them 24/7, and every OFRH I looked at had an auto-timer shutoff at 24 hours. So to me this would mean having to start it again daily and always remember when it'd turn off. But what if some emergency happened and I couldn't get to it?This one has a 24-hr timer, and it's adjustable, but most importantly, they don't force you to have it automatically running whenever it's on and giving me one more thing I must remember to do everyday.So I think I looked at & comparrd every single OFRD on here. And generally speaking, with the cheapest ones, I've seen some reviews saying that the oil leaks out, and they smell really bad initially. I've had to regularly purshase a new one every 1-3 years even with the mid-range ones. They just simply stop working one day.Anyway, although I've only had thidls DeLonghi for about a week, I really love this OFRH. I also called their Warranty Dept and was really impessed with that too, and could tell that if you call in with a warranty issue, they're not going to ignore you. And it's an American I who I talked to (he even had perfect English!).If you pay attention to the weight of each OFRH you're comparing, you'll find that there's a big weight difference in them. You can presume from this that the heavier ones are built with thicker metal, and probably/possibly had more attention paid to it when being assembled... and also means it'll retain its heat longer than lighter ones made with thinner metal. This DeLonghi is the heaviest OFRD I found out of all on Amazon OFRHs at26 poinds. Lighter one got down to as light as 17 pounds. Maybe even lower.Overall this OFRD feels rock solid, and it's the best one I've ever had. The ECO function is GREAT too. In the Spring when it starts warming up, there's no need to keep it on Low and just wasting electricity. But you do still want it on if it were to suddenly get cold (which can happen here).So this is a great idea to add this feature.But the absolute best thing of all is that this OFRH has a three-year warranty! This is the only OFRH I've seen with a warranty that long. That tells me that these are well put together.... good enough that they don't expect any to be coming back (or very few anyway), and that's a good sign.

Didn't use heater for over a month due to unusually warm weather. Finally used around Thanksgiving. It heated up a small room well enough though it had a faint electrical burning smell. Since then the smell has increased dramatically to the point it stinks up the whole (3000sqft) house in minutes. Smells like burning rubber/oil/electical now. Still heats well but makes you gag in the process. There is a serious defect in this heater. Looking in from the top a partially detached radiator segment can be seen. Looks to have been made that way as the paint shows no sign of damage. Unplugged now.and will attempt replacement or refund.Update: Called DeLonghi customer service. Was disconnected once while on hold after speaking to a rep, second time I called the gentleman advised me that it was referred to their technicians and probably they would send a call tag to be able to inspect the unit before taking any repair/replacement action. Really? This would have passed for customer service in 1960 but not today. The reason I bought the heater in the first place was to stay warm this winter. Now a long wait before I can stay warm again? Not very thoughtful on their part.UPDATE: Commenter for company obviously did not read the text of this as it already addressed all the helpful suggestions offered. After a month of use, burning oil/rubber smell has gotten progressively worse. I am not a rookie. I have had many space heaters including oil filled in my lifetime and none produced this kind of stink after a few hours' use. To be clear, this is not normal. I did call the customer service number and the results are shown in the previous comment. On the second try, I got a person who referred it to their technicians. Said they would call me. Gave me a case number 5530537. No call yet. Still cold here. If this is the best they can do, no more DeLonghi appliances for me and anyone else I can talk out of it. I have bought this brand before with no trouble, but then again, I never had to deal with what they consider to be customer service. Zero stars at this point.Latest UPDATE: After about another week someone did call, did not quibble, and asked where they could send a new unit. Unit received and after a few hours' burn-in, there is no detectable odor when used on ECO setting. When run on non-ECO, max heat, there is a little bit of the smell mentioned in the original post, but not enough to clear the house like the first one. I noticed there had been some other comments similar to mine about the strong smell. Maybe there was a production glitch recognized in the end. Regardless, I now have a working unit that rates 4 stars from me.

I needed a parrot safe space heater for my bird room during the night in winter months. I did some research and many bird owners recommended this brand. I am so glad I researched. The heater works great. The quality is excellent. I have used it for almost 2 months now with no issues. It has a temperature timer (eco setting), so it turns off when it reaches temp and on when it drops below. You can also set it to run a certain amount of hours and then auto turn off. It runs very quiet, so it doesn’t scare my birds while they are sleeping. There is also no smell (after doing a several hour burn off before putting it in their room). I don’t find the top to get overly hot (I set it between 70 and 73 degrees, depending on the temperature outside). Even so, I do not have it on when the birds are out of their cages. It’s the only space heater that I have owned that I feel comfortable leaving on while I am sleeping at night. And, it’s the only one I have ever felt comfortable using in my bird room. There are handles on the sides and wheels on the bottom, so I easily move it from the middle of the room to next to the wall every morning and back to the middle of the room every night. I chose the more expensive model and I am glad I did. I am very pleased with the DeLonghi Dragon space heater.

El material en el que está elaborado es muy bueno, lo tengo para calentar una habitación de 3x3mts aprox. y es perfecto. Tengan cuidado porque se calienta por fuera, acaten todas las recomendaciones del fabricante. No compro nunca más esos calefactores plásticos mas baratos, no sirven.Esta marca es muy buena, la construccion del equipo excelente, llegó a tiempo. 100% recomendado

My 2nd unit I purchased. Set the temp you'd like on the front (or set ECO and it will try to keep things near the temperature you'd like), select your wattage (700,800,1500) and then relax and listen to a few "ping" sounds as it warms up. After that: silent heat.This will heat a larger room than they advertise. I've heated my whole 900 sq ft basement with it.It may smell for the first run, so plug it in before you need to use it, away from people, and run it full out for a few hours. Dry the oil residue up.ECO: Keeps you near the right temp, but rarely right on it. Supposedly uses less energy.Timer mode: if the timer is set while it is on, it will heat for that amount of time and switch off. If its set while off it will wait that long before turning on. You can't really set a schedule like some of their older analog models could.Unplugging the unit wipes out your timer and heat settings.This sits on rollers, and the feet tuck under to save a bit of space when you are storing it away.Keep your kids hands off as the outside surface does become pretty dang warm on full power. Not hot enough to burn on a quick touch, but an extended touch might be concerning.I like it so much this is my second purchase.

Originalmente lo vi en una tienda de apartament y me frustré cuando vi que se les había agotado y si lo encargaba tardaba mucho en llegar. Amazon nunca decepciona al tener una gran variedad de productos que podamos necesitar y la rapidez con la que los entrega.Leí respecto de los distintos modelos que ofrece, y consideré que esto es una gran opción, porque el calentamiento del espacio en donde lo colocas es gradual y se mantiene a diferencia de los que son eléctricos. Una vez que ya lo tuve, comprobé que es cierto, y aunque no sea un producto más accesible que otros modelos de otras marcas, su calidad y garantía lo valen .

Unfortunately I didn’t realize it was imported from the US.The product works well at keeping my room warm.

Excelente produto