DR. INFRARED HEATER DR-988 240V Electric Industrial Garage, Workshop, Warehouse, Construction Heater, 5600W, Thermostat 37-113 °F, Portable, Wall Ceiling Mount

This heater is awesome. It performs very well. I have a 20x26 shop with 8 ft ceilings and shop is well insulated. I can warm the shop from the 30’s to the 50’s in an hour whic is well workable. I also have it positioned on where I’m working and periodically have to turn down the thermostat. I have it set at 6000 watts and don’t monkey with it. why would you. Let’s get some heat. There’s only one drawback with having it mounted from the ceiling because heat rises and your feet may be a little chilly but I’m only wearing sneakers. Wear an insulated shoe and you will be fine. I would definitely buy this heater again when it goes. It’s going on its 5th year of use with using it about twice or three times a week for about 4 hours each time. The price was good too. I recommend this product

Over the summer I purchased two of these units for my 40 x 40 x 16 lightly insulated workshop building located in central SC in the country. I built my own larger, hanging brackets to move the heater farther away from the wall to allow better overall operation with better temperature sensing and the ability to rotate the units ~ 100 degrees for more flexible heat flow direction. The heaters are mounted to a 6x6 post, ~ 7' off the floor. I also removed the temperature sensor tie wrap and allowed the sensor to hang down the connected ~10" wire length for more accurate temperature sensing. I wired the heaters to NEMA 6-50P outlets using 6/2 copper due to cable length and used the DR Heater DR-PS101 power cord for flexible heater use. . https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B07NSV8GDG/ref=ppx_yo_dt_b_search_asin_title?ie=UTF8&th=1 The unexpected cold fronts we had earlier than normal in November and December with temperatures down to the upper teens allowed a decent test of these heaters and their installations. At the beginning of this period, we rescued a stray cat (have four other rescues...) who appeared to be starving and would not have survived this unexpected weather. We fed and placed him in the workshop and turned on one heater located in his quarter of the workshop and set the temperature at its lowest setting of 50 degrees. We also provided a pet heated bed from K&H Pet Products https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B000ICGJZK/ref=ppx_yo_dt_b_search_asin_title?ie=UTF8&psc=1 . With these two products, he is warm and happy. The one heater easily keeps that area at 50 degrees and does not run all of the time. I have yet to see the electric bill... The heater fan will intermittently cycle for a short period of time without the heating elements being engaged and seemed like a useless function and wasteful of electricity. I contacted DR Heater through their email link and received a same day response requesting additional information, which I supplied later that day. Overnight, I had received the following response from the OEM: "Hello, Thank you for the information. If you feel the fan blowing but no heat, it is because it samples the room temperature It will sample the room temperature every 5-10 minutes for around 60 seconds, it will keep doing it every 5-10 minutes" At this point, I am very satisfied with these heaters and support from the OEM.

The positives are a good price and a heater that throws out quite a lot of heat. It is rated for 5600 watts at 240 volts, which is close to 20,000 BTU's. That is similar to many small gas heaters. Keep in mind that you need to use #10 wire and have a dedicated 30 amp circuit breaker in order to use this heater. It seems to work well and appears pretty well made, but only time will tell. There are a couple of issues, however. As the picture and manual make clear, this does not have an on-off switch. Instead, it only as an adjustable thermostat. The manual recommends unplugging it when not in use, which can be a little inconvenient and does put wear and tear on the large 30 amp power needed for this heater. The specs indicate the thermostat is rated for minimum on temperature of 37F, so if you leave it plugged in and the area gets below that, it will come on when you are not present. I have not verified the accuracy of the thermostat. The heater's fan is quite loud, so if you need a quiet area, that could be a problem. I also had a great deal of trouble registering the product on the company's website. One of the information fields on the registration webform (owner's telephone number) would not accept my number telling me to enter the correct format without specifying what format is required. After spending a lot of time guessing about the format, I finally got the correct one and it accepted the registration. I told customer support about their web problem and they did not seem interested in helping. They suggested a solution, but it did not work.

Facile d'installation. Manette fournit avec la fournaise facile a comprendre.

Installed into a 650 Sqft, 3-bay Insulated garage. Unless its below -20 degrees Celsius, it does a fine job of warming up garage to work in or melt snow off the cars. If you have steel garage doors that are not insulated, you should at a minimum start there with 4'x8' sheets of foil-backed styrofoam insulation that you can cut into pieces to snap into the door sectionals and tape the seams. Throwing up fiberglass bats between the wall studs is a very quick job. Drywall is an added bonus. This is an expensive unit to run, so you will make back what ever you spend on insulation. Highly recommended you use 10/2 or 8/2 armored cable to hard wire it. At 240v, you don't want to ever nick a a flexible dryer type plug cord. That voltage is enough to knock your balance off a ladder. I installed a mini 2-space breaker panel in the garage, wired to the main panel with 10/3 wire. (You should not bunch high current cables with other cables back to the main panel. Stove and Dryer runs are always given their own stud holes and space to avoid over heating). In the mini-breaker panel I plugged in a 15-30-30-15 quad breaker. The 30-30 is tied together for 240v and acts like a switch for the heater. Extra piece of mind, the heater has no power. The other two 15 breakers, I use for 2 additional 15a dedicated 120v outlets for tools. Obviously, I can't use them when the heater is in 6,000w mode, but they can be used at same time at 3,000w mode, or whenever the heater is off. The heater looks great and runs quiet, and the thermostat works accurately. I have left it on for 3 days at a time with no issues. You should run at 80% capacity for a 240v-30a (7,200w) circuit. And 6,000w is very close to that. As others have mentioned, you won't find a 35a breaker. Highly recommended purchase.

It was installed one and half month ago. I was waiting until the cold hit the city and it did. Outside today is -21. My 2 car garage I setup the thermostat to 66f. Man what a big different. The garage is always kept on the same temp and it feels good when everything in the garage not supper cold as it used to be. I can make the temp higher but anything above 0 is good for me. I recommended to anyone looking for comfort and make the garage the place you don’t hate every time you go out of your house door.

I had a 4800 watt electric heater in my garage and did a decent job heating it but I needed something with a little more power. I know I should have gas for something this big but until then I'm very satisfied. Gets it up to 20 degrees from about 5 degrees in a couple hours. The fan is more powerful than the 4800 so it moves more air, however it is noisier but it's a garage and I'm not reading books out there, I'm wrenching on cars so it doesn't matter to me. Also, the thermostat knob feels a little flimsy but it's doing it's job. Overall, I like the heater and we'll see on longevity and durability. I'll update as I've only had it a month. Update: First cold winter in northern Ontario. Kept my garage at 10 C at lower setting until I needed it to work out there. Turned it on high, went to 20 C in 2 hours. Working like a champ and I'm using it daily. Wasn't crazy on electric bill either. Best purchase. Still will update if it fails.

It works very well to remove the Humidity out of the Garage in Spring or the Fall Seasons but it does not totally heat the Garage in the Winter.