- Sales Rank: #279024 in Home
- Brand: Lifesmart
- Dimensions: 15.00" h x
15.00" w x
15.00" l,
23.00 pounds
Features
- Heats a Room Up to 1500 Square Feet
- Solid Furniture Grade Wood Cabinet with Dark Oak Finish
- Built-in Fan Circulates Air through the Heater and Into the Area Being Heated
- Infrared Technology Effectiveley Uses Less Energy to Produce Even Heat from Floor to Ceiling
- Programmable Temperature and Timer Feature
- Heats a Room Up to 1500 Square Feet
- Solid Furniture Grade Wood Cabinet with Dark Oak Finish
- Built-in Fan Circulates Air through the Heater and Into the Area Being Heated
- Infrared Technology Effectiveley Uses Less Energy to Produce Even Heat from Floor to Ceiling
- Programmable Temperature and Timer Feature
Cut home utilities costs with this Lifemart PowerPlus Infrared Heater. Able to efficiently heat 1500 sq ft of living space, this PowerPlus Heater has a built-in fan that circulates air through the heater and into the area being heated. Its infrared technology effectively uses less energy to produce heat from floor to ceiling. This LifeSmart PowerPlus Infrared Heater offer a programmable temperature and timer feature, a user-friendly large LED display and an advanced safety overheat shut off. Its elegant eco-friendly wood comes in a dark oak finish, and its cool touch exterior cabinet is safe for kids and pets.
Customer Reviews
Most helpful customer reviews
51 of 54 people found the following review helpful.
By Houston Gray
This review is for all three LifeSmart heaters I purchased, and tested, using both a thermometer and a Kill-A-Watt unit. The models purchased were the 800sqft model, the 1200sqft model, and the 1500sqft model. I am not even going to bother with the model numbers because 1) they all suck, 2) LifeSmart changes model numbers from year to year even though it is the same exact unit, and 3) ...see #1. (I know this because I found two identical units in the store yet one had a slightly different model number and was produced two years ago compared to the newer produced on. Identical design, identical specs, identical instructions, etc.)None of these can get even close to heating the square footage they claim. NOT EVEN CLOSE! I would venture to guess that most of the people giving this or other LifeSmart heaters high reviews have no clue how small a space they are actually heating when they test this.Folks, the math isn't that hard.If your room is 10' x 10' that's 100sqft.If your room is 20' x 20', that's 400sqft.And if your room is 28' x 28', that's roughly 800sqft.A decent 2 bedroom apartment is 800-1,000sqft.An average 3 bedroom house pushes the 1500sqft mark.If you are still having trouble estimating, try this. Stretch your arms out. That is about 5-5 1/2 feet. Can you stretch your arms twice in each direction in your room? Then your room is roughly 100sqft...which is 1/8 the capacity of the 800sqft unit, 1/12th the 1200, and 1/15th the 1500.Check the room you used your unit in and you will find it is tiny compared to what these are supposed to be able to heat.So, 800sqft is HUGE and there is no way, even in hell, for the 800sqft unit to heat that space. And don't even get me started on the 1200 and 1500. Neither of them could heat an 800sqft space either, even though they are advertised for much more. Will this heat your feet under your desk, sure, but that is something like 25-50sqft. Will this keep you warm if you set it up next your couch while you read or watch TV? Sure, but that is something like 50-100sqft. Will this warm you from across the room if it is blowing directly in your direction? ...actually, even that isn't easy for these units to do. But you can achieve those heating tasks with much cheaper, much smaller units, making these a waste of money and space.Here was my test.First, the reason I had three of these was that the Grocery Outlet had them all, had them priced decently at $80, and I was in the middle of looking for replacement heaters for a rental unit I was about to put back on the market. Our store has a liberal return policy so I figured I would take advantage of the opportunity to test three of these side by side. (I was doing a lot of work in the unit so I was there all day and could run the tests while doing other things.) We provide the heaters because we pay the utilities on this particular unit...and want to put in the most efficient heating unit. We were looking for replacements for some old baseboard heaters, which seemed to heat the rooms just as well, if not better than these units, without 1/3-1/2 the power, even though those units are freakin' old. (I'm guessing the fan in these models sucks up a lot of juice.)The rental unit is a one bedroom apartment that is roughly 640sqft. The unit is made up of one room for the kitchen/living room, which is about 250sqft, a large bedroom of about 330sqft, and then various closets and a bathroom, all of which were closed off during this test. The heaters were set up about eight feet from a digital wall thermometer in the living room and were pointed to blow past the bedroom door, although not pointed directly at it. (I wanted to see how much of the heat would move into the bedroom...none did.) I plugged them into a Kill-A-Watt, which is a unit you can buy here on Amazon that shows you what your electrical appliances are drawing power wise. (I highly recommend having one - that will likely be my next review, although most of the reviewers seem to have gotten that one right so I might not waste my time.)So, the primary room I was heating was 250sqft, which is tiny compared to the claimed 800sqft capacity claim of the 1st heater.In fact:This room was only 1/3 (or 31%) of 800sqft, meaning that heater is meant for a room THREE (3) TIMES as big. THREE TIMES!!!!This room was only 1/5 (or 20%) of the 1200sqft capacity, meaning the 1200 heater is meant for a room FIVE (5) TIMES as big. FIVE TIMES AS BIG!!!!And this room was only 1/6 (or 16%) of the 1500sqft capacity, meaning the 1500 heater is meant for a room SIX (6) TIMES as big. I think you are getting the picture, right?People, these heaters are advertised for HUGE spaces, not your little piddling 150-250sqft bedroom.I let the room cool to the same temperature for the start of each test and the ambient temperature outside never really changed, so this was a fairly consistent test, for not being a laboratory.The first odd thing that I noticed was that each unit drew close to the exact same power.800: 116 Volts, 11.64 Amps, 1355 Watts1200: 116 Volts, 11.72 Amps, 1316 Watts1500: 118 Volts, 11.80 Amps, 1400 WattsSomeone will have to explain to me how a two units, of similar design, from the same company, and drawing the same amount of power, are meant to heat different size spaces. The 1500 is meant to heat a space almost twice as big as the 800 yet draws almost identical power. If that meant that the 800 could heat a 1500sqft space, that would be great, but I couldn't even get the 1500 to properly heat a 250sqft space...meaning that they are advertised to heat well beyond what they can actually do.The second odd thing was that these units, which are meant for spaces 3, 5, and 6 times as big as the one I tested, could only raise the room temp by 3 degrees in one hour's time. (My gas heater at home will do the same in about 4 minutes. Seriously.) I left each heater on for one hour, with a room temp starting at 71 degrees. It should be noted that this is not a cold temperature so it wasn't like I was asking these units to truly perform. They were heating already warm air, and still couldn't get the job done. I can only imagine how bad they perform with cold air, like something in the 40s or 50s (yes, I'm in the SF Bay Area and 40s and 50s are cold to us.)Each heater was set to 86 degrees and left on for an hour.Each heater warmed the room from 71 to 74 degrees.Each heater used a predictable amount of energy, which was right around 1.4 kwh, which is "thousand watts" which means 1400 watts, which is what they were drawing, according to the Kill-A-Watt measuring unit. If it is rated at 1400 watts, and is left on for an hour, it will draw 1.4 kwh, which if 1.4 kilowatts (thousand watts), which is the same as 1400 watts, per hour. Hence, the 1400 watt rating/reading means it will draw 1400 watts per hour, if turn on to its maximum setting, which all of these were.The third odd thing was that the temperature in the other room did not rise one bit. NOT ONE BIT! Remember, this is a 640sqft apartment, meaning it is only 80% the size of the 800's claimed capacity, 53% of the 1200, and 43% of the 1500...and even this is generous considering the bathroom door and all three closet doors were closed. That means that about 60sqft of the 640sqft wasn't even being heated. So that would put the total apartment's tested space (living room/kitchen and bedroom) at 73% of the 800's capacity, 48% of the 1200, and 39% of the 1500. So, not only couldn't these heaters efficiently heat the room they were tested in, but there was no way, even in hell, of them heating the whole place, which at best was only 80% of their claimed capacity, and at worst, was a piddly 39% of their capacity.Now, one might claim that the heaters need more time but I simply didn't have that kind of patience. If a heater can't heat the room quickly, what is the point? If it takes all night to get a room to a comfortable temperature, it has defeated the purpose. If it takes all day to get the room to a comfortable sleeping temperature, that also defeats the purpose, and wastes lots of energy.Oh ya, and makes a ton of noise - the fans are loud.Will this work in a small area, probably. But you are paying for something that is supposed to heat a large area. In fact, I even ran a quick test using the heater I keep under my computer desk at home to keep my feet warm on chilly mornings. It raised the temperature at about the same rate and with less power draw, but cost close to nothing, is about 1/4 the size, and certainly didn't claim to be able to heat whole houses.Heck, I have friends with radiant heating built into their floor tiles and it heats the room faster than these, and there isn't a blower motor for their heat.And let's talk about cost. At roughly $0.22 per kWh (in the SF Bay Area), that put the cost of running these units for an hour at about $0.30. The only reason I mention this is because you will have to run these for a long time to raise your room, let alone the space they claim to be able to heat, to a comfortable temperature. For these units to heat you up, you will need to run them for at least several hours a day, and will likely need one for each room, although as I showed, even in a single room, these weren't effective, or quick. Sure, we don't all have a gas option, but my home gas unit, in comparison, not only heats incredibly fast, but does it for about 1/3 the cost, based just on the one hour test. Being that these units would have to stay on all day to even try to compete with what my gas heater can do being on for mere minutes per hour, the true cost difference would be phenomenally large.Most people are willing to trade some cost for convenience. (Otherwise, we wouldn't tolerate such big fluctuations in gasoline prices, for one.) So, although the cost of running the unit might not be terrible (probably something like $1-$3 per day, per unit (you will likely need multiple units), they won't heat quickly enough to be worth it. Even if gas or heating oil or radiant floor heat or a fireplace cost you more (which I can't imagine would be the case) they all heat quickly. And, you don't have to replace them, which you surely will have to do with these. If they could make it through one season of heavy use (they could only be used heavily because they don't run efficiently enough to be used lightly), I would be surprised. So now add the cost of a new heater, per room, every season (or two, if you are lucky) PLUS the cost of electricity, plus the inconvenience of them not heating quickly, plus the loud fan, and what you have is as close to a scam product as I have ever seen packaged for mass marketing.Well, I hope this helps some of you out. This is a cheap product (made in China, not surprisingly) that is marketed to cover an area it simply can't handle. Actually, it can't even handle a small fraction of the area it claims, making their claims bordering on fraud. I'm just a simple guy with a room, a thermometer, and a Kill-A-Watt and I was able to prove these are pieces of crap. There is no way that LifeSmart doesn't know that their units can not live up to their claims.
24 of 25 people found the following review helpful.
By Mary Dobrovosky
This heater does not heat an area anywhere near 1500 sq. ft. In an open kitchen, dining, living space that is not even 1000 sq. ft., this heater does not raise the temperature even a couple (two) degrees after running for an hour.
0 of 0 people found the following review helpful.
By Natalie Nicholson
I would recommend this heater . It is quiet and warms up the family room. It has met our expectations.
New LifeSmart LS-1001HH13 1500 Sq Ft Infrared Quartz Electric Portable Heater
In Stock! Go to STORE Now !15.00" l,
23.00 pounds
Features
- Heats a Room Up to 1500 Square Feet
- Solid Furniture Grade Wood Cabinet with Dark Oak Finish
- Built-in Fan Circulates Air through the Heater and Into the Area Being Heated
- Infrared Technology Effectiveley Uses Less Energy to Produce Even Heat from Floor to Ceiling
- Programmable Temperature and Timer Feature
- Heats a Room Up to 1500 Square Feet
- Solid Furniture Grade Wood Cabinet with Dark Oak Finish
- Built-in Fan Circulates Air through the Heater and Into the Area Being Heated
- Infrared Technology Effectiveley Uses Less Energy to Produce Even Heat from Floor to Ceiling
- Programmable Temperature and Timer Feature
Cut home utilities costs with this Lifemart PowerPlus Infrared Heater. Able to efficiently heat 1500 sq ft of living space, this PowerPlus Heater has a built-in fan that circulates air through the heater and into the area being heated. Its infrared technology effectively uses less energy to produce heat from floor to ceiling. This LifeSmart PowerPlus Infrared Heater offer a programmable temperature and timer feature, a user-friendly large LED display and an advanced safety overheat shut off. Its elegant eco-friendly wood comes in a dark oak finish, and its cool touch exterior cabinet is safe for kids and pets.
Customer Reviews
Most helpful customer reviews
51 of 54 people found the following review helpful.
By Houston Gray
This review is for all three LifeSmart heaters I purchased, and tested, using both a thermometer and a Kill-A-Watt unit. The models purchased were the 800sqft model, the 1200sqft model, and the 1500sqft model. I am not even going to bother with the model numbers because 1) they all suck, 2) LifeSmart changes model numbers from year to year even though it is the same exact unit, and 3) ...see #1. (I know this because I found two identical units in the store yet one had a slightly different model number and was produced two years ago compared to the newer produced on. Identical design, identical specs, identical instructions, etc.)None of these can get even close to heating the square footage they claim. NOT EVEN CLOSE! I would venture to guess that most of the people giving this or other LifeSmart heaters high reviews have no clue how small a space they are actually heating when they test this.Folks, the math isn't that hard.If your room is 10' x 10' that's 100sqft.If your room is 20' x 20', that's 400sqft.And if your room is 28' x 28', that's roughly 800sqft.A decent 2 bedroom apartment is 800-1,000sqft.An average 3 bedroom house pushes the 1500sqft mark.If you are still having trouble estimating, try this. Stretch your arms out. That is about 5-5 1/2 feet. Can you stretch your arms twice in each direction in your room? Then your room is roughly 100sqft...which is 1/8 the capacity of the 800sqft unit, 1/12th the 1200, and 1/15th the 1500.Check the room you used your unit in and you will find it is tiny compared to what these are supposed to be able to heat.So, 800sqft is HUGE and there is no way, even in hell, for the 800sqft unit to heat that space. And don't even get me started on the 1200 and 1500. Neither of them could heat an 800sqft space either, even though they are advertised for much more. Will this heat your feet under your desk, sure, but that is something like 25-50sqft. Will this keep you warm if you set it up next your couch while you read or watch TV? Sure, but that is something like 50-100sqft. Will this warm you from across the room if it is blowing directly in your direction? ...actually, even that isn't easy for these units to do. But you can achieve those heating tasks with much cheaper, much smaller units, making these a waste of money and space.Here was my test.First, the reason I had three of these was that the Grocery Outlet had them all, had them priced decently at $80, and I was in the middle of looking for replacement heaters for a rental unit I was about to put back on the market. Our store has a liberal return policy so I figured I would take advantage of the opportunity to test three of these side by side. (I was doing a lot of work in the unit so I was there all day and could run the tests while doing other things.) We provide the heaters because we pay the utilities on this particular unit...and want to put in the most efficient heating unit. We were looking for replacements for some old baseboard heaters, which seemed to heat the rooms just as well, if not better than these units, without 1/3-1/2 the power, even though those units are freakin' old. (I'm guessing the fan in these models sucks up a lot of juice.)The rental unit is a one bedroom apartment that is roughly 640sqft. The unit is made up of one room for the kitchen/living room, which is about 250sqft, a large bedroom of about 330sqft, and then various closets and a bathroom, all of which were closed off during this test. The heaters were set up about eight feet from a digital wall thermometer in the living room and were pointed to blow past the bedroom door, although not pointed directly at it. (I wanted to see how much of the heat would move into the bedroom...none did.) I plugged them into a Kill-A-Watt, which is a unit you can buy here on Amazon that shows you what your electrical appliances are drawing power wise. (I highly recommend having one - that will likely be my next review, although most of the reviewers seem to have gotten that one right so I might not waste my time.)So, the primary room I was heating was 250sqft, which is tiny compared to the claimed 800sqft capacity claim of the 1st heater.In fact:This room was only 1/3 (or 31%) of 800sqft, meaning that heater is meant for a room THREE (3) TIMES as big. THREE TIMES!!!!This room was only 1/5 (or 20%) of the 1200sqft capacity, meaning the 1200 heater is meant for a room FIVE (5) TIMES as big. FIVE TIMES AS BIG!!!!And this room was only 1/6 (or 16%) of the 1500sqft capacity, meaning the 1500 heater is meant for a room SIX (6) TIMES as big. I think you are getting the picture, right?People, these heaters are advertised for HUGE spaces, not your little piddling 150-250sqft bedroom.I let the room cool to the same temperature for the start of each test and the ambient temperature outside never really changed, so this was a fairly consistent test, for not being a laboratory.The first odd thing that I noticed was that each unit drew close to the exact same power.800: 116 Volts, 11.64 Amps, 1355 Watts1200: 116 Volts, 11.72 Amps, 1316 Watts1500: 118 Volts, 11.80 Amps, 1400 WattsSomeone will have to explain to me how a two units, of similar design, from the same company, and drawing the same amount of power, are meant to heat different size spaces. The 1500 is meant to heat a space almost twice as big as the 800 yet draws almost identical power. If that meant that the 800 could heat a 1500sqft space, that would be great, but I couldn't even get the 1500 to properly heat a 250sqft space...meaning that they are advertised to heat well beyond what they can actually do.The second odd thing was that these units, which are meant for spaces 3, 5, and 6 times as big as the one I tested, could only raise the room temp by 3 degrees in one hour's time. (My gas heater at home will do the same in about 4 minutes. Seriously.) I left each heater on for one hour, with a room temp starting at 71 degrees. It should be noted that this is not a cold temperature so it wasn't like I was asking these units to truly perform. They were heating already warm air, and still couldn't get the job done. I can only imagine how bad they perform with cold air, like something in the 40s or 50s (yes, I'm in the SF Bay Area and 40s and 50s are cold to us.)Each heater was set to 86 degrees and left on for an hour.Each heater warmed the room from 71 to 74 degrees.Each heater used a predictable amount of energy, which was right around 1.4 kwh, which is "thousand watts" which means 1400 watts, which is what they were drawing, according to the Kill-A-Watt measuring unit. If it is rated at 1400 watts, and is left on for an hour, it will draw 1.4 kwh, which if 1.4 kilowatts (thousand watts), which is the same as 1400 watts, per hour. Hence, the 1400 watt rating/reading means it will draw 1400 watts per hour, if turn on to its maximum setting, which all of these were.The third odd thing was that the temperature in the other room did not rise one bit. NOT ONE BIT! Remember, this is a 640sqft apartment, meaning it is only 80% the size of the 800's claimed capacity, 53% of the 1200, and 43% of the 1500...and even this is generous considering the bathroom door and all three closet doors were closed. That means that about 60sqft of the 640sqft wasn't even being heated. So that would put the total apartment's tested space (living room/kitchen and bedroom) at 73% of the 800's capacity, 48% of the 1200, and 39% of the 1500. So, not only couldn't these heaters efficiently heat the room they were tested in, but there was no way, even in hell, of them heating the whole place, which at best was only 80% of their claimed capacity, and at worst, was a piddly 39% of their capacity.Now, one might claim that the heaters need more time but I simply didn't have that kind of patience. If a heater can't heat the room quickly, what is the point? If it takes all night to get a room to a comfortable temperature, it has defeated the purpose. If it takes all day to get the room to a comfortable sleeping temperature, that also defeats the purpose, and wastes lots of energy.Oh ya, and makes a ton of noise - the fans are loud.Will this work in a small area, probably. But you are paying for something that is supposed to heat a large area. In fact, I even ran a quick test using the heater I keep under my computer desk at home to keep my feet warm on chilly mornings. It raised the temperature at about the same rate and with less power draw, but cost close to nothing, is about 1/4 the size, and certainly didn't claim to be able to heat whole houses.Heck, I have friends with radiant heating built into their floor tiles and it heats the room faster than these, and there isn't a blower motor for their heat.And let's talk about cost. At roughly $0.22 per kWh (in the SF Bay Area), that put the cost of running these units for an hour at about $0.30. The only reason I mention this is because you will have to run these for a long time to raise your room, let alone the space they claim to be able to heat, to a comfortable temperature. For these units to heat you up, you will need to run them for at least several hours a day, and will likely need one for each room, although as I showed, even in a single room, these weren't effective, or quick. Sure, we don't all have a gas option, but my home gas unit, in comparison, not only heats incredibly fast, but does it for about 1/3 the cost, based just on the one hour test. Being that these units would have to stay on all day to even try to compete with what my gas heater can do being on for mere minutes per hour, the true cost difference would be phenomenally large.Most people are willing to trade some cost for convenience. (Otherwise, we wouldn't tolerate such big fluctuations in gasoline prices, for one.) So, although the cost of running the unit might not be terrible (probably something like $1-$3 per day, per unit (you will likely need multiple units), they won't heat quickly enough to be worth it. Even if gas or heating oil or radiant floor heat or a fireplace cost you more (which I can't imagine would be the case) they all heat quickly. And, you don't have to replace them, which you surely will have to do with these. If they could make it through one season of heavy use (they could only be used heavily because they don't run efficiently enough to be used lightly), I would be surprised. So now add the cost of a new heater, per room, every season (or two, if you are lucky) PLUS the cost of electricity, plus the inconvenience of them not heating quickly, plus the loud fan, and what you have is as close to a scam product as I have ever seen packaged for mass marketing.Well, I hope this helps some of you out. This is a cheap product (made in China, not surprisingly) that is marketed to cover an area it simply can't handle. Actually, it can't even handle a small fraction of the area it claims, making their claims bordering on fraud. I'm just a simple guy with a room, a thermometer, and a Kill-A-Watt and I was able to prove these are pieces of crap. There is no way that LifeSmart doesn't know that their units can not live up to their claims.
24 of 25 people found the following review helpful.
By Mary Dobrovosky
This heater does not heat an area anywhere near 1500 sq. ft. In an open kitchen, dining, living space that is not even 1000 sq. ft., this heater does not raise the temperature even a couple (two) degrees after running for an hour.
0 of 0 people found the following review helpful.
By Natalie Nicholson
I would recommend this heater . It is quiet and warms up the family room. It has met our expectations.
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