Daewoo 1500W Ceramic Electric Radiator Review

Introduction

Most electric heaters warm up quickly, but when they turn off, the room starts to cool quickly. With the Daewoo 1500W Ceramic Electric Radiator, you get slower heat-up times, but the radiator holds onto its heat, so temperatures don’t fall as fast. Where you want consistent comfort, this radiator could be a good choice.

Design and features

• Good looking
• Wall or floor mounting options
• Very big

The Daewoo 1500W Ceramic Electric Radiator has a clean white design that won’t look out of place in a modern home. But it’s big. Really big. Especially with the casters attached (it can be wall mounted), it stands at 65cm tall and 70cm wide. It’s also very heavy at 11.7kg.

It’s the size of a proper wall radiator, so it’s not the sort of thing you could pop under a desk or store neatly away when not in use. This is a more of a permanent installation, much like the Aeno Premium Eco LED Smart Heater.

Something I like about this heater is that it’s both free standing and mountable on the wall. It comes with a pair of castors that are easy enough to screw into the base as well as wall brackets for a more permanent installation.

In wall-mounted mode it would be the ideal heating solution for a garden room or other space that needs some extra heat.

Another benefit is the clever little programmable timer that allows you to set a heating schedule for up to seven days. It’s a bit fiddly to work out, and not as intuitive as having a smart app to do the same thing, as with the Devola Smart WiFi Platinum 1.5kW Glass Panel Heater. Once you do work out the controls, you can have heat when you want it. You can also just turn the radiator on when you want and set the desired temperature via the LCD.

There’s an anti-frost setting that will kick in when the temperature dips below 7° Celsius, an eco-mode that reduces the top temperature from 35°C to 31°C.

You set the controls via a small LCD display that lights up when you press any of the buttons. The light on the display times out after a few seconds as well, so it won’t keep you awake in an otherwise dark room.

Performance

• Heats slowly but keeps heat
• Silent in operation
• Good for large rooms

Rated at 1500W, the Daewoo 1500W Ceramic Electric Radiator is a little less powerful than some rival heaters, such as the Dyson Purifier Hot+Cool Formaldehyde. However, 2000W heaters are generally designed to deliver a lot of heat quickly, where as the Daewoo 1500W Ceramic Electric Radiator works differently.

Heating the ceramic elements, this heater builds up heat over time and then releases it into the room. Using the large surface area, this heater can deal with a large room, and heated my test bedroom with ease.

The main difference between this an a convection heater or fan heater is that it takes a while to warm up, and you don’t get an instant hit of heat.

The flip side is that, just like a traditional water-filled radiator, that heat lasts, so you don’t get a quick drop-off in temperature when the heater turns off.

That makes the Daewoo 1500W Ceramic Electric Radiator well suited to environments with drafts or that are prone to cooling down quickly, as this model will help even out the temperature variances. If you have a well insulated space that you can heat quickly and then not worry about heat loss, a fan heater may be better.

This radiator took twenty minutes to raise the temperature from 15°C to 18° C. But it was still warm to the touch 40 minutes later with the power off. It produces a much gentler temperature increase and decrease than a convection or fan heater produces.

The other advantage of the Daewoo 1500W Ceramic Electric Radiator over a fan heater is that there aren’t any moving parts, so there’s no noise from it, although that’s true of a convection heater, too.

Should you buy it?

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