Customer Reviews

Honeywell HZ2300 Honeywell Heater

5 star:		(2)
4 star:		(1)
3 star:		(1)
2 star:		(0)
1 star:		(5)

 

 

I use this under my desk at work and it's exactly what I wanted. Variable speed, not too loud, quick to heat. The temperature gauge feature is nice too, as is the auto shutoff in case it tips over.

My entire office is a refrigerator, so this heater provided great comfort from the warmth. I can focus more on my day-to-day work while I'm at a warm desk!

Positive:
+ The heater will probably work well for at least a month.

+ It oscillates well.

+ The auto-off tip alert does work, but is very sensitive. If it is bumped, the lights in the room will flicker due to the power fluctuation until it situates. This is as opposed to my previous heater (a Holmes) that just shut it self off until I turned it on again.

Negative:
- As another reviewer mentioned, this heater has a "child proof cap" style control knob. After approx. two months of gentle handling (because it was obvious that the heater was made with terribly cheap parts) I could no longer turn the heater off because the threads on the cap had worn off. In the end I had to unplug it to turn it off and stop using it.

- After two weeks the fan blade started to make squealing sounds at random times. By the time the control knob broke, it had become quite loud. I never shook, dropped, hit or ever moved the heater. It was only set to oscillate for about one minute when it first arrived. It was another sign that this heater is cheaply made.

We have one tiny bathroom without a heater. My old Holmes, which worked so well, finally died. I bought this Honeywell to replace the Holmes, and discarded the packaging or it would have been returned.

First, the Settings knob is the push-and-turn type, and when you press on it and turn it, it just keeps going around and around, Second, even if you turn the heat setting (the second knob) all the way up, the heater turns off after about three second (I actually timed it). Then, if you're lucky, five or ten minutes later, you'll get another brief blast of heat. Third, for the fan function to work, the room has to be as warm as the heater setting, which doesn't make any sense at all. Fourth, the whole unit oscillates, sending blasts of heat around in an arc.

I've been buying space heaters for that small bathroom for the twenty years I've been in this house, and the six dollar Rite-Aid heater I bought in a pinch two years ago worked better than this thing.

Choose a different heater!

This is a nice small heater. It does everything that Honeywell says it does.
The only trouble I had was pushing down the child protection button. It does take quite a bit of strength

The Honeywell HZ2300 is not a blowtorch but it heats a 20 x 20 room easily enough. And it's "rushing air" quiet. Great as white noise for sleeping. Sometimes the oscillating function creaks quietly like a rocking chair. But I almost never use that.

Here are the flaws: 1) the unit is not meant to be disassembled for cleaning (I contacted Honeywell) so after a year or two with dust build-up, it smells for awhile when the heater is on and the fan blades lose their efficiency; 2) the off/on/heat switch is child proof so it's difficult to use and will eventually strip out.

While I admit that I have no children and understand that we live in a lawsuit-crazy world, I think that the child proof switch is silly and redundant. The HZ2300 already shuts off after a few minutes if the heat is set at high. If it's tipped over, it shuts off immediately. If a kid tries to sit on the unit while it's oscillating, chances are good that it'll tip over anyway and shut off. If the kid throws it in the tub or toilet, they're going to get electrocuted whether it's on or off. And frankly, at that point the parents really ought to be watching their kids closer.

Since the unit is not meant to be disassembled for cleaning or repair, I assume that Honeywell designed it to be disposable. To my mind, that's just wrong. We dispose of too many things in our modern world. Simple electric items like heater-fans ought to be used and repaired and cleaned repeatedly.

So, I located a small appliance repair shop nearby. Their guys extracted the oddball-head screws that hold the unit together, cleaned the insides and fan blades, removed the spring from the child proof switch and glued it to work like a real switch ought to -- then reassembled the unit using standard screws.

Now I can use the switch without having to reef down on it while turning it, and I can disassemble the unit in a moment myself and clean it. Though I've no doubt cruelly and horribly voided the terms of Honeywell's warranty, I now have a heater-fan that is fantastic. Tops. And I have the local small appliance repair shop to thank and not Honeywell.

After several weeks of hassle in trying to get a pickup of my defective order#104-9938289

-0217037, Honeywell heater, I was charged a return shipping bill?
Can't believe it. Until now have been exceptionally pleased with Amazon and it is my first source for everything. Hope this is corrected.

Erratic cheap thermostat. Sparks & flashes all the time. Should be in the air intake flow, isolated from the heat - it isn't - so it is impossible to set a constant temp & its variable is massive. Also very noisy - definitely not for a quiet room or sleeping at night. Just another cheap junk heater. Probably for $2 more (their cost) they could have made a real jewel out of this. Another million dollar American idea executed by .10 cent Oriental engineering.

I bought this and turned it but in less than ten minutes of use I heard a pop and it was dead. It did produce decent heat but it won't last any reasonable amount of time.