So this morning when I walked into the Tort room it was cold.....what the @#*%. I have a 1500 watt Soleil Oil Filled Radiant heater backed up by a Inkbird 1800 watt temperature controller so this exact problem would not happen. It seems the switch that shuts the heater down if "Tipped Over" has failed. A it shut down the heater without being tipped over. I wiggled the heater and it came back on so I left it for 10 minutes to see if it would shut down on it's own again. Within 5 minutes the room was filled with the smell of "Electrical Burning." So junk now and will never use this companies products ever again. Their warranty is for a 1 year period on Materials, Parts and Workmanship .... So you mean the company is admitting that the Material the heater is made of (Metal) can fail after a year. You mean to tell me that the parts in it can fail after just 1 year ... and the company is fully admitting this ...
So I went online to order a new one and found almost all of them have the same "Limited Warranty" and at their discretion they can decide to not fix it even within the 1 year warranty. Oil filled Heaters do not dry out the air so they are perfect for tort heating but does anyone here know of a GOOD brand that stands behind their product. I CAN NOT risk burning down a house over a $100 piece of S*%T. Our "Tort Room" is actually a Home on our property that we heat for the SOLE purpose of keeping Torts and Turtles warm. If I can not find a RELIABLE heater I will be forced to go a different route such as a Ceramic Element heater with a Humidifier over it to compensate for the Desiccant effects of the heater.
So I went online to order a new one and found almost all of them have the same "Limited Warranty" and at their discretion they can decide to not fix it even within the 1 year warranty. Oil filled Heaters do not dry out the air so they are perfect for tort heating but does anyone here know of a GOOD brand that stands behind their product. I CAN NOT risk burning down a house over a $100 piece of S*%T. Our "Tort Room" is actually a Home on our property that we heat for the SOLE purpose of keeping Torts and Turtles warm. If I can not find a RELIABLE heater I will be forced to go a different route such as a Ceramic Element heater with a Humidifier over it to compensate for the Desiccant effects of the heater.