Review on 🔥 DeLonghi TRD40615T Full Room Radiant Heater - Mechanical, White - 10"x15"x26 by Frank Chinchilla

I was looking for a safe bedroom heater. Our house currently has no heating upstairs and we needed something for each room. As the two rooms are children's rooms I wanted something as safe as possible and while no heater is 100% safe I think the DeLonghi TRD40415T comes very close. I was a little suspicious of radiant heat - how safe can that be without airflow or fans? I remembered the days of my youth when I relied on hot water radiators to heat my house. Suffice it to say that this DeLonghi device is light years ahead of the technology in that there's both radiant and radiant heat, but just as rotary phones and iPhones are "phones," they're hardly the same. I was very surprised by both the heat dissipation and the feeling of radiant heat - it mainly comes from the top and while I know better you might be fooled into thinking it has a fan but it doesn't . On Medium, the unit noticeably increased the temperature in a 16 x 16 basement room from cool to comfortable in about 2 hours. At high frequencies, the device easily made the room too warm, even toasty. I suspect that the "High" setting cuts the time to "Comfortable" by about a third. The device is easy to use and the settings are mostly intuitive. The only potentially confusing part might be the timer, but only if you've never used a mechanical timer like this before and once you get the hang of it, it's very easy. The timer is also infinitely flexible, allowing you to set multiple on and off periods. My heater turns on at 5am, then off at 8am - thus heating the room for the morning, then stays off until 6pm and heats until 8:30pm - so heats the room again before bed on. Click and tap once or twice on first launch, but it's not too noticeable and seems to diminish with use. Otherwise, the only sound is a running timer, and you can't hear it unless you put your ear directly on the device, which isn't a good idea anyway. The device gets lukewarm, especially on the top. On medium you can get a 3-5 second countdown before having to remove your finger from the side or front, on high I didn't even try to touch it. The sidewalls are slightly cooler, but not so much that they don't burn with prolonged contact. Ultimately, this is a heater if it needs to be heated somewhere. The advantages are that there is no exposed heating element, no noisy fan, virtually no chance of catching fire from brief accidental contact, and burns are unlikely unless mishandled - you have to try and burn yourself somehow. The trade-off is slower heat transfer compared to a fan heater, and the unit is heavy, although the weight somewhat prevents incorrect positioning and helps prevent accidental tipping and similar accidents. give off enough heat. While no heater really should be left unattended, I'm sure the passive radiant heat and quiet, no-fuss operation of this device make it a much more reliably safe option compared to other space heating alternatives.