TEMPWARE Electric Garage Heater, 5000-Watt Digital Fan-Forced Ceiling Mount Shop Heater With Full-Function Remote, 240-Volt Hardwired Heater With 12-Hour Timer, Ideal For Workshop

5 reviews for TEMPWARE Electric Garage Heater, 5000-Watt Digital Fan-Forced Ceiling Mount Shop Heater With Full-Function Remote, 240-Volt Hardwired Heater With 12-Hour Timer, Ideal For Workshop

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   Rated 4 out of 5

   George BIII – November 17, 2022

   I was a little skeptical of this heater at time of purchase. I have family member that paid more than this and their heaters just do the job and seem to run continuously.I have had this heater for 3 weeks now. I live in the northern United States, so we get cold. It has averaged between 0-12f degrees at night for the past 2 weeks.I have a about a 1000 sqft shop. My goal is to just keep it above freezing. I thought every time I’d walk into the shop, the heater would be on. It is the opposite. The heater keeps the shop at 45 with ease.It worked so well, I bought another one for my Garage, to keep it at 45. I just installed 2 days ago and it rarely runs as well. At least, every time I walk in there, it is not running. When I pull my cars in and out, it drops to the thirties. Within 30 minutes the temperature was back up to 60 degrees Fahrenheit I had it set at 60 just to test it).I have never owned another 240v heater, so I can not compare apples to apples. This one has surpassed my expectations.I do not have a way of measuring the heat output, I just time the on and off times. When a door is open, it takes minimal time to get back up to temp.There was one time I stopped feeding my wood stove early in the shop. It started to get cold, so I cranked up this heater. Within 30 minutes it was so hot in the shop that I was sweating.Update: I found a not one thing wrong with this little heater that can: if you lose power, it does not automatically come back on, and it will not remember the last setting you had it on. I keep my shop and garage at 45, just so my liquids do not freeze. I recently went out of town for business, and we lost power. I had to inconvenience someone else to stop by and turn on and set the heaters.

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   Rated 5 out of 5

   Stavesacre – January 17, 2023

   FIRST IMPRESSIONThe unit seems fairly well constructed although the sticker on the front with all the buttons/labels was half peeling off but easily stuck on again. The unit it shockingly light and small for what I expected a 220V 7,500 watt heater to be. The terminals on the connection block don’t feel extremely sturdy although they did the job. One of the heating element grates were bent but didn’t seem to affect safety/functionality. We connected a 50 amp range cord to the unit that would connect to the NEMA14-50 outlet we had installed by our home builder for this very purpose. As recommended, we popped in a 40 amp breaker and flipped the switch. Worked great.CONDITIONSBecause a heater’s performance can be dramatically affected by the environment, I’ll spell out the conditions in our garage. We mounted it in a 13ft tall, 26×26 partially (attached to home) insulated garage that has a doorway left open to a standard 9ft 22×22 partially insulated garage. The primary garage to heat is 676sqft and the other garage is 484sqft for a total of 1160sqft of garage. The unit is mounted roughly 9ft off the ground in the 13ft garage. Ambient temps outside are 37 degrees today and we ran the unit on high for 2 hours. By the 1 hour mark it had taken the garage from 41 degrees to 50. By the end of hour 2, it was only 55. (Please note – the temperature was taken on the opposite side of the garage, roughly 5ft off the ground) The thermostat on the heater never read above 67, which tells us it was struggling with the size of the garage.When standing on a ladder, it became immediately obvious that all the heat was sitting about 7 to 8 feet off the ground, and a ceiling fan in the garage would do wonders for pushing that heat down. Still, I’m questioning if this unit will be enough with an uninsulated garage this size. I’m sure that insulating it would definitely make a difference but I’m not out in the garage enough to need that. I just want to keep the garage at 45 to keep everything from freezing and simply need some heat blasting in the half hour I’m doing any projects outside. I’m not a fan of turning on a heater for 2 hours before i’m gonna be out there to get into the mid 50s, plus in Ohio, high 30s outside is pretty warm for winter. Usually we’re close to single digits to teens this time of year, and that has me much more concerned how this would perform under those colder conditions.FUNCTIONALITYThe very best part about electric heaters is that you immediately get very hot heat. Within 15 seconds it was blowing nearly 200 degrees. 2 minutes later it was in the high 300s. This heater makes quick work of spitting out that heat.It has 4 modes, Fan only, Low, High and Eco. It might be a stretch calling Eco a mode as it more or less switches between the other 3 modes depending on the conditions in the room. I found it a little useless personally, so I stuck to low and high. Fan mode does just that, blows only the fan without any heat, Low mode turns on most of the heating elements and high turns them all on. As I’ll explain down in the cost section, low mode only uses 15% less energy than high, so it might simply leave one of the heating elements off. I found that pointless as it barely saves any money but somehow feels like it’s putting out A LOT less heat. I would have preferred a low mode that were closer to half the cost to run. To no surprise, High worked best of all, but of course costs the most to run.Of note, the fan does NOT change speeds on any of the modes, it just uses less/more heating elements which make up for the cost difference. If I’m being picky, I feel like it’s a little on the weak side. Would have been nice to have seen a little more oomph to push all that heat farther out in the room.When turning off, the unit, it will run for 90 more seconds to cool off the elements enough to shut down. It even counts this 90 seconds down on the temp display, which I thought was a pretty cool touch. Most manufacturers do NOT recommend cutting power to heaters immediately (via an external power cut-off) except for emergencies for this reason, as cooling the elements off both affects longevity as well as safety of red hot elements.The remote is simple and not confusing at all to useEFFICIENCY/RUNNING COSTEveryone keeps asking how much this unit costs to run so I’ve decided to post some cold-hard, no BS numbers captured with our energy monitoring software we use. Your own cost to run may vary wildly depending on your electricity rate, but I’ve included pictures of the wattage/cost for all 3 modes. These are based off our electric rate of $0.16 per kW. Fan only mode draws 38 watts and barely costs $0.01/hr. Low runs about 6,350 watts and costs roughly $0.92/hr. Lastly, High will pull the full 7,500 watts and will be around $1.09/hr. Low mode only draws about 15% less energy than high, so I found the savings to be moot when the heat put out feels like about half. In the 2 hours we ran it, the cost averaged out to about $0.15 per degree raised from 41 degrees. That number can grown very quickly as you get below freezing and into the single digits/zero.SUMMARYI was very happy with the performance of this heater, although I’ve spelled out quite a few reasons why it isn’t what I was hoping for in our situation. We’re presented with a couple of options to solve our issue with this unit under-producing for our needs (A) We can either buy a ceiling fan for the garage that will push a lot of that hot air down making it much more efficient and likely much closer to the size we need, (B) We could insulate the garage (which would be substantial cost) or lastly (C) we can just try the 10,000 watt unit, which will run roughly $0.38 (or 25% more) per hour more. Given that Amazon gives your free returns for 30 days, we will likely try the 10,000 watt model and compare their performance, then return whichever we don’t feel like keeping.Granted we only used this heater for one day, but my initial impression is 5 stars for anyone with a smaller garage/workshop with lower ceilings and/or insulated walls. If you’ve gotta overcome 1 or both of those issues, you may need a bigger unit or a ceiling fan to make it work for you.

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   Rated 4 out of 5

   David Damewood – March 2, 2023

   The heater arrived on time and was packaged well. Installation was no problem caution if you don’t know household wiring. I installed it in a few hours which including running a dedicated line from breaker box to heater. This little heater puts out a good amount of air. My shop is a 24x24x12 insulated attached building and It has no problem keeping it at 70 degrees even when the wind chill is below zero. It is quiet and heats up quickly and you can feel the warm air halfway across the shop. I do use one small celling fan to help circulate the warmer air trapped at the top account my 12 foot celling. I’ve only had it up a few weeks so we will so how it goes as far as long term dependability. The only problem I had was out of the box the remote did not operate it at all. I contacted the customer service e-mail and told them the problem they responded the next morning and instructed me to replace the remote by purchasing another from amazon and send them the receipt and they would issue a credit. I was a little hesitant at first but decided to do as they instructed. I received the new remote a few days later and it worked perfectly. I sent them a copy of the bill of sale and received a return e-mail in less than 12 hours and my account was issued a full credit in less than 24 hours so I cant complain about the customer service at all. We will see a year from now how it does but for now I’m totally happy and warm !!!!!!!

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   Rated 5 out of 5

   Robert Restly – June 26, 2023

   Good quality heater. Easy to install and wire. Use it to heat a 16X20 workshop, heats really well.

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   Rated 5 out of 5

   Daniel J. – July 12, 2023

   Worth every cent, however the remote control fail to work after a few use, if you don’t mind walking to the system and pushing the on button you will love this unit. My garage is 24×34 feet it takes 20 to get it from 32 degrees to 60. Keep in mind that my garage is insulated with half inch foam board framed and an additional 4 inch of sound/fire insulation.