does this item have a thermostat on it? how does it know how hot to make the room?
1748139
It does not. You can purchase a thermostat that will turn the unit on and off depending on room temperature and set temperature.
1748140
No it does not have a thermostat, I just bought a thermostat that you plug into the outlet. And then plug the heater into it
1748141
Nope, it doesn't have a thermostat -but you can always buy one and plug the heater in it, and so you'll know how hot to make the room. Think of this heater like a light bulb. Does a light bulb knows how bright to make the room? :)
1748142
It does not have a thermostat. Some people buy a thermostat plug in thing. It just gets warm and has an on/off switch. I'm not sure how well it works yet as ours has a smell. The company is going to replace our unit.
1748143
No thermostat I bought a plug in one and connect the heater to it. It works really well.
1748144
No it does not. It doesn't know how hot to make the room. You can turn it off, if it gets too hot. IMO, the best place for this is in a bathroom, where you want to it be warmer to begin with or under a badly insulated window, where the rising heat offsets the drafty air.
1811880
No, it doesn't make the room hot. I cook my pizza in it now. It does a great job. A very good item...wish I had gotten it a lot sooner!
1047686
It has a fan. The thermostat is a rotary knob on the back of the heater. There is no temperature setting. You set it by turning on the heater and when the room gets to the temp you want, you turn the dial down until the fan shuts off. When the room cools down, the fan will come back on. The heater plugs into a 230 volt 20 amp receptacle.
479302
no, no thermostat. I had to buy one separately, but it's a good fan so far. it cools my generator shed with no problem.
1269660
Not at all specific. There are two knobs but no thermostat. It's basically on/off and fan speed hi/lo
1299894
It does have a thermostat, so it will turn off when the air around the unit reaches the set temperature, but, it will continue to run and blow heat as long as it needs until it reaches the temperature you set it to. This unit was a workhorse when I first got it, its only now that I've had a problem.
2186162
I am using it for a gas fireplace and it does have a built in thermostat. Works great.
1197926
All it does is show the current temperature in the room. I think you're supposed to be able to set it to a temperature you want cool the room down to, but the fan is not powerful enough for that. It's pretty pointless, I never use it.
932334
No, the one I received has only a low and high setting. I also have 20,000 and 30,000 BTU versions and they sort of have a thermostat. You set it to a level between 1 and 5 (low and high) and then it turns off when it reaches it's temp... but there is no indicator to tell what temp that might be. it's a trial and error sort of thing and it changes with the temp in the room. If it's real cold, then I have to turn it up. The fans are nice for distributing the warm air and can be set come on when needed rather than running the whole time.
2136281
I only used it a few days last winter, but I'm gonna say I thought it has a thermostat on it. It did keep my room warm
1276399
Unit is a wall mount. Replaced my old thermostat. If it is close to the heater it will not be able to judge the room temperature. Love the unit, has a normal and economy mode we use when away from the house.
1398638
No it does not!! Nor does it heat like it specifies. I have it in a small room and you can't even tell it's on.
878049
There is no thermostat, it just plugs in. I didn't measure the temp but I heated a bathtub of water for me when my heater went out and it got warm enought to bathe in comfortably.
2168309
It comes with a temperature sensor. It plugs in the back and has a few feet of lead wire with the sensor at the end, so you can place it in an appropriate location to get a true room temperature.
985513
It does not have a thermostat it will run all the time ,it does have a 1ht-2hr or a 4hr timer.You can set the temp. to low or high.
1398637
yes, it definitely does come with a thermostat. Basically, you turn it up all the way and let it run until things get to a temperature that you like, then you very slowly turn it down until the heater turns off. It will then turn on and off automatically to keep it around that temperature. Not sure what the other answers saying no are talking about. You open up the front door, and underneath down at the bottom there's a thermostat knob. There is DEFINITELY a thermostat on this.
386829
It has a thermostat built in at the plug end. Just plug it in and your good to go.