- Sales Rank: #1260 in Home
- Color: Brown
- Brand: Lifesmart
- Model: LS-8WIQH-LB-IN
- Released on: 2013-10-15
- Dimensions: 18.50" h x
15.00" w x
16.00" l,
31.00 pounds
Features
- 5500 BTUs Heats a Room Up to 1800 Square Feet
- Quakerstown Oak Stain All Wood Cabinet That Is Cool To The Touch
- 110 Volt 1800 Watts Plug & Play 15 Amp Circuit Required
- Quiet Scroll Motor Fan Distributes Heat
- 3 Energy Saving Settings including 500 watt Eco Setting
- 5500 BTUs Heats a Room Up to 1800 Square Feet
- Quakerstown Oak Stain All Wood Cabinet That Is Cool To The Touch
- 110 Volt 1800 Watts Plug & Play 15 Amp Circuit Required
- Quiet Scroll Motor Fan Distributes Heat
- 3 Energy Saving Settings including 500 watt Eco Setting
This is our most powerful LIFESMART Infrared heater. The revolutionary design offers you safe & healthy heat for a room area of up to 1800 square feet. LIFESMART offers ultra-efficient & safe heat at less cost than other heating systems. This is our best heater and features 8 of our quartz infrared elements that are wrapped in a metal heat exchanger coil for greater heat production. No other unit on the market has this innovative technology. Our heater has a 3 year warranty. There is also a Lifetime Air Filter. In addition this unit features an Air Ionizer System to produce purified air. In house testing shows our heaters are 38% more efficient then forced air electric, 66% more efficient then propane and 45% more efficient then electric baseboard yet this Infrared Heater only uses up to 1800 watts. There are 3 energy savings settings including an Eco Setting that will heat smaller areas to 68 degrees using only 500 watts. The heater is surrounded by our stylish all wood Quakerstown Dark Oak Cabinet That is cool to the touch. E Z Glide casters will easily move from the heater from room to room. This amazing heater also includes a new larger remote control to operate the Digital Thermostat and Dual Timer settings that can be used to turn the unit on in up to 12 Hours so your room is warm when you come home or turn off in up to 12 hours.
Customer Reviews
Most helpful customer reviews
40 of 41 people found the following review helpful.
By TommyB0y
This is a very safe product and looks great too. It is also likely the best one at heating a large room because it can continuously pull a little over 1400W (12-amps) on the high setting, putting out more heat compared to smaller ones and ceramic electric heaters that only really draw about 800W. They may all be rated at "1500W" but none of them really draw that much when warm. Having more elements gives it more heating surface area to dissapate heat, which allows it to pull more power all the time. There are also low and eco settings so it doesn't draw the 1400W if you don't need the extra heat. Because it does draw more power than other units you have to be more conscious of what else is on that circuit so you don't trip the breaker. If you have 15-amp breakers, then this thing will be drawing about 12 amps, so you cannot also run a vacuum cleaner on that circuit or a refrigerator or microwave or other large device.This is advertised as 1800W in places, but in the owners manual it says 1500W. However, in the same owners manual it says it may draw up to 15 amps, which would indeed be 1800W. In my actual testing it draws about 1440W (12 amps) continuously, which is actually about twice as good as most smaller cheaper ceramic electric heaters or any other wire coil electric heater. I have tested multiple units that draw less than 800W, and my "3-element" LifeSmart portable unit is the best small unit I have able to draw and dissapate just over 900W continuously on high. The fan is not loud, it is also not silent, it needs to get all that heat dissapated and distributed.The wood is always cool to the touch, doesnt heat up and the power cable doesnt get hot either like some other electric heaters. it will probably look best on carpet, because on a hard floor the legs are above the ground a little bit since it sets on the casters, and the 4 wooden legs are just a bit higher than those wheels. On carpet the wheels will sink a bit so the legs look like they are on the ground. I keep this one at my office and it helps warm up the corner of the building where my cubicle is. It is a large building, about a 20,000 sq-ft floor and our boiler has not worked for a year. It will get down to about 50 degrees inside the building on the coldest nights/mornings, and even when its about 58-62F outside this helps get my corner of the building to 68-70F in a couple hours making it much more comfortable to sit in the cubicles. There are other little personal space heaters on other power circuits helping to warm up the entire floor, but mine is the only one in about 2000sq-ft.If you just need to keep one person warm, then a $50 ceramic heater would do fine when placed a few feat away from the person, although these IR based units provide a more comfortable temperature of air (not as hot) but more distributed so it can warm up a whole couch or something like that.So Pros(1) Great performance, actually providing a lot more heat output than the small cheap ceramic units(2) Very safe, case does not get warm, has heavy duty power cable, its shuts off from tip over or just knocking it hard(3) The real wood looks great(4) The timing settings and remote are niceI dock one star for the following(1) I was hoping it would be able to draw at least 1500W continuous with the "8-elements", but at ~1440W its still better than any other forced air electric heater I have tested.(2) The buttons are a little cheap feeling.(3) I am not a fan of the beeping when hitting buttons, but only do that when turning it on and setting it up.
36 of 38 people found the following review helpful.
By Doc 626
I have bought a Lifesmart heater from Amazon before and it worked great. After reading the 1 bad and 2 good reviews I decided to try out this new 8 element unit. I bought it thru Amazon Prime since I knew they would take it back if we were not happy with the performance. As you can see from my 5 star review we are definitely keeping it. This unit has a really nice cabinet and a much bigger remote than the Lifesmart I bought last year. It also has the same eco 500 watt setting that is great for when it really is not that cold and you just want a little bit of warmth. My wife moves it into the laundry room and closes the door and on 500 watts it heats a small room great. Then at night we turn it up on the 1500 watt setting to make our extra large family room toasty. We use last year's heater in the bedroom upstairs so now were not heating the whole house. The other nice benefit to this heater is that it has a 3 year warranty vs. a 1 year that I noticed was pretty standard. It's nice to know in a throw away world you can buy something for under $200 and know it will work at least 3 years. I now have a Lifesmart sauna, and 2 heaters. We are a big believer in the Lifesmart brand.
23 of 24 people found the following review helpful.
By Patricia E. MacKenzie
Our house has a heat pump and although the house is well insulated, with 6" exterior walls, the heat pump leaves a lot to be desired - the house, in winter, is always cold and the heat pump runs constantly, with the thermostat set at 70 degrees. Last winter I had to set the thermostat to supplemental heat the entire winter and it was still cold so we used space heaters, too - our electric bill in January and February were ridiculously high. The Lifesmart Ultimate 8 Element 1800 Square Foot Infrared Heater w/Air Ionizer arrived yesterday afternoon. The house was 74 degrees when it arrived with no heat turned on, just sunshine and a warmer day heating the house, but the temperature by early evening was dropping steadily and there was constant strong cold wind. Overnight it was in the low forties. Today it is only going to reach into the mid-fifties. Unpacked the Lifesmart after it arrived yesterday, turned it to on, and set it to 74 degrees. We didn't turn on the central heat, and around seven o'clock last evening the Lifesmart began heating - we monitored the thermometers round the house and they never dropped from 74 degrees by the time we went to bed at 11 p.m. I awoke at 3 a.m. and walked into every room in the house (most rooms have a thermometer hung on the wall or a tabletop display thermometer) and every room was 74 degrees. The Lifesmart is so quiet, too. We are going to buy a smaller Lifesmart for the Master Bedroom, as we keep the door closed to keep the dog and cat out while we sleep. Will update this review next month after the electric bill arrives.December 24, 2013 - 1:30 p.m. - Electric Bill was posted today for the period November 15, 2013 thru December 15, 2013. We used 1854 kilowatt hours in the period - our bill is $226.25. Same period last year we used 1835 kilowatt hours, the bill was $226.07. We are supplementing the LifeSmart Heater with two ceramic heaters - one in the bedroom when the door is closed (nights and whenever we want to keep the cat and dog out), and another heater in the mud room at the far end of the house. As I said in the previous comment, it is a lot colder this year than last - our daytime highs are often what our nighttime lows were last year, but the house is warm with the LifeSmart heating the house, whereas it never felt warm with the heat pump, even when the heat pump was brand new. We are considering taking out the floor registers and having the openings sealed and having the heat pump removed. HAPPY HOLIDAYS!
Lifesmart Ultimate 8 Element 1800 Square Foot Infrared Heater W/ Air Ionizer System Deluxe All Wood Cabinet & Remote
In Stock! Buy Now !16.00" l,
31.00 pounds
Features
- 5500 BTUs Heats a Room Up to 1800 Square Feet
- Quakerstown Oak Stain All Wood Cabinet That Is Cool To The Touch
- 110 Volt 1800 Watts Plug & Play 15 Amp Circuit Required
- Quiet Scroll Motor Fan Distributes Heat
- 3 Energy Saving Settings including 500 watt Eco Setting
- 5500 BTUs Heats a Room Up to 1800 Square Feet
- Quakerstown Oak Stain All Wood Cabinet That Is Cool To The Touch
- 110 Volt 1800 Watts Plug & Play 15 Amp Circuit Required
- Quiet Scroll Motor Fan Distributes Heat
- 3 Energy Saving Settings including 500 watt Eco Setting
This is our most powerful LIFESMART Infrared heater. The revolutionary design offers you safe & healthy heat for a room area of up to 1800 square feet. LIFESMART offers ultra-efficient & safe heat at less cost than other heating systems. This is our best heater and features 8 of our quartz infrared elements that are wrapped in a metal heat exchanger coil for greater heat production. No other unit on the market has this innovative technology. Our heater has a 3 year warranty. There is also a Lifetime Air Filter. In addition this unit features an Air Ionizer System to produce purified air. In house testing shows our heaters are 38% more efficient then forced air electric, 66% more efficient then propane and 45% more efficient then electric baseboard yet this Infrared Heater only uses up to 1800 watts. There are 3 energy savings settings including an Eco Setting that will heat smaller areas to 68 degrees using only 500 watts. The heater is surrounded by our stylish all wood Quakerstown Dark Oak Cabinet That is cool to the touch. E Z Glide casters will easily move from the heater from room to room. This amazing heater also includes a new larger remote control to operate the Digital Thermostat and Dual Timer settings that can be used to turn the unit on in up to 12 Hours so your room is warm when you come home or turn off in up to 12 hours.
Customer Reviews
Most helpful customer reviews
40 of 41 people found the following review helpful.
By TommyB0y
This is a very safe product and looks great too. It is also likely the best one at heating a large room because it can continuously pull a little over 1400W (12-amps) on the high setting, putting out more heat compared to smaller ones and ceramic electric heaters that only really draw about 800W. They may all be rated at "1500W" but none of them really draw that much when warm. Having more elements gives it more heating surface area to dissapate heat, which allows it to pull more power all the time. There are also low and eco settings so it doesn't draw the 1400W if you don't need the extra heat. Because it does draw more power than other units you have to be more conscious of what else is on that circuit so you don't trip the breaker. If you have 15-amp breakers, then this thing will be drawing about 12 amps, so you cannot also run a vacuum cleaner on that circuit or a refrigerator or microwave or other large device.This is advertised as 1800W in places, but in the owners manual it says 1500W. However, in the same owners manual it says it may draw up to 15 amps, which would indeed be 1800W. In my actual testing it draws about 1440W (12 amps) continuously, which is actually about twice as good as most smaller cheaper ceramic electric heaters or any other wire coil electric heater. I have tested multiple units that draw less than 800W, and my "3-element" LifeSmart portable unit is the best small unit I have able to draw and dissapate just over 900W continuously on high. The fan is not loud, it is also not silent, it needs to get all that heat dissapated and distributed.The wood is always cool to the touch, doesnt heat up and the power cable doesnt get hot either like some other electric heaters. it will probably look best on carpet, because on a hard floor the legs are above the ground a little bit since it sets on the casters, and the 4 wooden legs are just a bit higher than those wheels. On carpet the wheels will sink a bit so the legs look like they are on the ground. I keep this one at my office and it helps warm up the corner of the building where my cubicle is. It is a large building, about a 20,000 sq-ft floor and our boiler has not worked for a year. It will get down to about 50 degrees inside the building on the coldest nights/mornings, and even when its about 58-62F outside this helps get my corner of the building to 68-70F in a couple hours making it much more comfortable to sit in the cubicles. There are other little personal space heaters on other power circuits helping to warm up the entire floor, but mine is the only one in about 2000sq-ft.If you just need to keep one person warm, then a $50 ceramic heater would do fine when placed a few feat away from the person, although these IR based units provide a more comfortable temperature of air (not as hot) but more distributed so it can warm up a whole couch or something like that.So Pros(1) Great performance, actually providing a lot more heat output than the small cheap ceramic units(2) Very safe, case does not get warm, has heavy duty power cable, its shuts off from tip over or just knocking it hard(3) The real wood looks great(4) The timing settings and remote are niceI dock one star for the following(1) I was hoping it would be able to draw at least 1500W continuous with the "8-elements", but at ~1440W its still better than any other forced air electric heater I have tested.(2) The buttons are a little cheap feeling.(3) I am not a fan of the beeping when hitting buttons, but only do that when turning it on and setting it up.
36 of 38 people found the following review helpful.
By Doc 626
I have bought a Lifesmart heater from Amazon before and it worked great. After reading the 1 bad and 2 good reviews I decided to try out this new 8 element unit. I bought it thru Amazon Prime since I knew they would take it back if we were not happy with the performance. As you can see from my 5 star review we are definitely keeping it. This unit has a really nice cabinet and a much bigger remote than the Lifesmart I bought last year. It also has the same eco 500 watt setting that is great for when it really is not that cold and you just want a little bit of warmth. My wife moves it into the laundry room and closes the door and on 500 watts it heats a small room great. Then at night we turn it up on the 1500 watt setting to make our extra large family room toasty. We use last year's heater in the bedroom upstairs so now were not heating the whole house. The other nice benefit to this heater is that it has a 3 year warranty vs. a 1 year that I noticed was pretty standard. It's nice to know in a throw away world you can buy something for under $200 and know it will work at least 3 years. I now have a Lifesmart sauna, and 2 heaters. We are a big believer in the Lifesmart brand.
23 of 24 people found the following review helpful.
By Patricia E. MacKenzie
Our house has a heat pump and although the house is well insulated, with 6" exterior walls, the heat pump leaves a lot to be desired - the house, in winter, is always cold and the heat pump runs constantly, with the thermostat set at 70 degrees. Last winter I had to set the thermostat to supplemental heat the entire winter and it was still cold so we used space heaters, too - our electric bill in January and February were ridiculously high. The Lifesmart Ultimate 8 Element 1800 Square Foot Infrared Heater w/Air Ionizer arrived yesterday afternoon. The house was 74 degrees when it arrived with no heat turned on, just sunshine and a warmer day heating the house, but the temperature by early evening was dropping steadily and there was constant strong cold wind. Overnight it was in the low forties. Today it is only going to reach into the mid-fifties. Unpacked the Lifesmart after it arrived yesterday, turned it to on, and set it to 74 degrees. We didn't turn on the central heat, and around seven o'clock last evening the Lifesmart began heating - we monitored the thermometers round the house and they never dropped from 74 degrees by the time we went to bed at 11 p.m. I awoke at 3 a.m. and walked into every room in the house (most rooms have a thermometer hung on the wall or a tabletop display thermometer) and every room was 74 degrees. The Lifesmart is so quiet, too. We are going to buy a smaller Lifesmart for the Master Bedroom, as we keep the door closed to keep the dog and cat out while we sleep. Will update this review next month after the electric bill arrives.December 24, 2013 - 1:30 p.m. - Electric Bill was posted today for the period November 15, 2013 thru December 15, 2013. We used 1854 kilowatt hours in the period - our bill is $226.25. Same period last year we used 1835 kilowatt hours, the bill was $226.07. We are supplementing the LifeSmart Heater with two ceramic heaters - one in the bedroom when the door is closed (nights and whenever we want to keep the cat and dog out), and another heater in the mud room at the far end of the house. As I said in the previous comment, it is a lot colder this year than last - our daytime highs are often what our nighttime lows were last year, but the house is warm with the LifeSmart heating the house, whereas it never felt warm with the heat pump, even when the heat pump was brand new. We are considering taking out the floor registers and having the openings sealed and having the heat pump removed. HAPPY HOLIDAYS!
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