Vornado EH1-0032-28 TouchStone 500 Vortex Full-Room Electric Heater

by Vornado

Product Features

• Whisper quiet operation
• Timer with auto shut off in one hour intervals up to nine hours
• Remote control climate control at your fingertips
• Speeds Low high and fan only
• Automatic safety shut-off system designed to prevent overheating

Product Details

• Product Dimensions: 11.4 x 11.5 x 9.8 inches ; 8.3 pounds
• Shipping Weight: 13 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
• Shipping: Currently, item can be shipped only within the U.S.
• Shipping Advisory: This item must be shipped separately from other items in your order. Additional shipping charges will not apply.
• ASIN: B0015UVV0W
• Item model number: EH1-0032-28
• Average Customer Review: 3.3 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (62 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #4,088 in Home & Kitchen (See Top 100 in Home & Kitchen)
  • #12 in Home Improvement > Building Supplies > Heating & Cooling > Heaters & Accessories
  • #27 in Home & Kitchen > Heating, Cooling & Air Quality > Space Heaters

Product Description

Amazon.com Product Description

A great money-saving alternative to heating the entire home, this portable electric heater delivers comfortable warmth wherever it's needed most. Designed for a large 16-by-16-foot room with an 8-foot ceiling, the unit's energy-efficient Vortex technology fully circulates warm air throughout the room in just minutes. Choose from two heat settings--low at 800 watts or high at 1500 watts. Great for at home or at the office, the heater offers simple push-button top-mounted controls, a digital LCD screen to display the current settings, a nine-hour timer, and a handy remote control (two AAA batteries included). Safety features consist of fire-resistant steel construction that stays cool to the touch, a non-glowing heating element, automatic tip-over protection, and automatic safety shut-off. With its built-in handle, the lightweight heater measures 9-4/5 by 11-2/5 by 11-1/2 inches and carries a two-year limited warranty.

Product Description

Vortex Technology/Remote Control/Whisper Quiet

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

137 of 138 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Best heater on the market, January 2, 2007

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AChanceFind "LMG" (Berkeley, CA, USA) - See all my reviews

I have owned a few of these hot air fan heaters and this is by far the best. I have a large apartment with about a 12' high ceiling and I can notice the "vornado action" moving a feather hanging from a dreamcatcher at the corner of the ceiling with the fan sitting on the middle opposite side of the floor. This shows me that the fan is truely pumping the air around as it is heating and it is not just a gimmick or false claim. Other fans I have had did not do this and took like an hour to heat the room. The Vornado takes the chill out of the room within 15 minutes and is nice and warm reaching thermostat temperature by 30 minutes (most of the time depending on how cold it is.) What's even more impressive is that it is also so quiet I don't even know it's on sometimes!

However, since nothing is perfect here are a some design suggestions for the manufacturers:

1) The Sony remote problem is true, I have the same problem but thankfully my bed blocks my TV remote's "line of fire" so it rarely turns down the heater but it has on several ocassions--- Vornado should have picked a more obscure signal to use for the remote.

2) The remote needs to be more ergonomic so it's easy to hold and there should be indentations on the buttons so that you know what to press when fumbing in the dark--as it is now it's too small and impossible to tell if you're even holding it in the right direction.

3) The fan is so quiet it would be nice if the red "on" light would actually turn green so that you know it's on.

4) The blue LCD display is way too bright--it's like having 2 nightlights on in the room...very annoying and I wish it was darker since there is no need for it to be so bright (I'd put black tape over it but then can't see the temperature).

Overall though, only buy this if you are truely a design freak, it is beautiful and the quality of the metal housing is well worth the price if you are willing to drop that much money on a heater to just look stylish.

In terms of function though you can get the exact same results by buying the much cheaper (about half price) original Vornado without the remote. A friend of mine has this original Vornado which is what inspired me to buy mine. There is also a "clone" type heater competing with the original Vornado made by Holmes and I suspect the performance of that one is going to be very comparable and also a bit less expensive. Hope this helps you decide!

38 of 40 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars I like it but it broke, October 6, 2008

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Heater Hal (USA) - See all my reviews

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Update - 2 months after bought it - it broke, the fan intermittently stops running & the heat stays on so it starts burning itself up, it filled the room with strong burning smell/smoke. NOT safe.

42 of 45 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars LOVE it!, January 5, 2007

By 

bridezilla "'zilla" (WI) - See all my reviews

We purchased the Vornado Touch Stone Vortex Heat 500 about a month ago. We have a room that is consistently colder than the other rooms in the house. We don't understand WHY it is colder since it was an addition, attached to the main central air /forced air heating unit, is actually BETTER insulated with more up-to-date windows, but is about 6 degrees colder (warmer in the summer) than any other room in the house. I plugged the Vornado in and the room is actually WARM! I am very impressed with this little, very quiet... you can't hardly tell it is running!... machine. I would definately recommend it to anyone that has this problem. We DO have a Sony TV/Remote, but the TV is in another room and doesn't affect the use of the machine. Actually, I leave ours on all the time and don't even need the remote. If this is the case I would go with the pp suggestion with getting the version without the remote. Had I realized that it was just as powerful I would have saved a few dollars and gone with the remoteless one for our use. HIGHLY recommend this item. I am very pleasantly surprised at how well this little unit works.