Whether you’re living in a colder environment or you’re simply looking to go through a longer Winter Season, the best thing you can do is to get yourself a reliable portable space heater. That’s because these portable heating units ultimately allow homeowners to ensure that the rooms they spend most of their time in can stay nice and toasty for a more comfortable home-living experience. This brings us to the Dr. Infrared Heater DR-968.
The Dr. Infrared Heater DR-968 is a powerful and ultra-reliable 1500-watt portable infrared space heater that features a Dual Heating System, an Automatic Energy Saving Mode, and two built-in Safety Functionalities, which are Overheat Protection and Tip-Over Protection.
All that makes portable infrared space heater capable of easily heating up a large room with no problems whatsoever, which also includes making almost no noise at all, which is all thanks to its super-quiet Ball Bearing High-Pressure Blower.
Now, let’s have a slightly more detailed look at this portable space heater and check out everything that this awesome heating unit can really do.
DESIGN & SPECS
Starting with the unit’s size, this portable space heater comes at a fairly compact size, measuring just 12.5 inches long by 13 inches wide by 17 inches tall, weighing around just 25 lbs., which, despite not making it ultra-heavy and bulky – meaning making it harder to carry around – still gives the whole system enough stability to stay put even against the occasional accidental bump.
That said, this portable infrared space heater not only features an ultra-durable build that ultimately makes it built-to-last, but the unit’s surface is also fairly cool to touch.
As such, contrarily to many infrared heaters that tend to have their bodies heating up to unreasonable temperatures (which ultimately makes those other units extremely unsafe to touch), that basically makes the Dr. Infrared Heater DR-968 keep a cool surface temperature that ultimately makes it safe to touch at any point in time during its operation.
Now, as mentioned before, this portable infrared space heater is capable of easily heating up a large room with no problems whatsoever. In other words, the Dr. Infrared Heater DR-968 is capable of heating up a large 1.000 sq. ft. room reasonably fast, which ultimately allows you to save up to 50% on energy costs when compared to most other space heaters on the market.
That’s mainly thanks to its Dual Heating System, which combines an Infrared Quartz tube with a Positive Temperature Coefficient (PTC) of up to 60% that’s rated to work at around 5200 BTU (British Thermal Unit).
Last but not least, the unit’s Dual Heating System also integrates an ingenious super-quiet Ball Bearing High-Pressure Blower, which is designed to force heat into the heater’s room / environment for maximum head-distribution while staying remarkably cool inside.
Note that the heater’s super-quiet Ball Bearing High-Pressure Blower operates at a whisper-quiet level of just 39 dB, thus making the unit’s entire operation quite silent so that you can stay focused on whatever task you have at hand, whether that’s desk work, reading a book, watching TV, or anything else in between.
That not only ensures that this heater is capable of having a maximum hot-air distribution but also helps to ensure that this portable infrared space heater ultimately has an extended lifetime of 80,000 hours, which, when compared to many other infrared heaters on the market, is around up to four (x4) times longer than the lifetime that those other infrared heaters has to offer you.
I’d also like to note that this portable infrared space heater is in fact electric-powered (not a battery-powered heater like many lower-end infrared heating units on the market), coming equipped with a 72-inch electric power-cord that integrates a standard 110v 3-Prong Outlet at its cable-end.
On that note, the Dr. Infrared Heater DR-968 operates at 1500 Watts for its heating functionalities and features a Amperage of 12.5 Amps of Power.
Last but not least, this portable infrared space heater is also listed by both ETL as well as by Underwriters Laboratories (UL) in USA and Canada, which are two high-quality Safety Certifications (safety markings) that give the heater the utmost in both safety and quality assurance.
INTERFACE / CONTROL PANEL
Now, moving on to the heater’s interface. The Dr. Infrared Heater DR-968 features a very simple and intuitive interface. That said, right at the center of the heater’s Control Panel we have a built-in display that show’s the unit’s operating temperature or its remaining run-time (when having the unit running on its automatic Shut-Off Timer ).
Then, slightly at the left side of its built-in display panel as well as just below it, we also have a couple of buttons integrated into the unit’s Control Panel, which, going from top to bottom and then from left to right are: a Power Button, a Standby Button, an Increase Button and Decrease Button (for increasing the unit’s temperature and/or Timer-function), and a Heating Mode Button (to swap between the unit’s different Heating Modes).
Lastly, just at the right side of the heater’s built-in display panel, we also have a set of 3 Informational LED Lights that inform users about what Heating Mode the heater is currently running on (Automatic Energy Saving Mode / Eco Mode, High, or Low).
THE REMOTE CONTROL
The heater also comes together with an Infra-Red Remote Control that makes it easy for you to control the unit from wherever you’re sitting within the room, whether that’s a couch, desk space, etc.
Just like the heater, its Infra-Red Remote Control also features a very simple interface, which includes Increase Button and Decrease Button at the left side (for increasing the unit’s temperature and/or the run-time of its automatic Shut-Off Timer function), a Heating Mode Button (to swap between the unit’s different Heating Modes) and Timer Button (to configure the heater’s automatic Shut-Off Timer) at the right, and a Power Button at the bottom.
OTHER NOTABLE FEATURES
Automatic Energy Saving Mode (Programmable Shut-Off Timer)
As said before, this heater also features an Automatic Energy Saving Mode that works based on a Programmable Shut-Off Timer, which can be set to have a run time of up to 12 hours maximum.
Two Safety Functionalities (Overheat Protection & Tip-Over Protection)
Best of all, the heater also comes with a built-in Overheat Protection functionality, as well as with a Tip-Over Protection function, which makes it much safer than many other portable infrared space heaters out there.
FINAL THOUGHTS
The Dr. Infrared Heater DR-968 is a powerful and ultra-reliable 1500-watt portable infrared space heater that features a Dual Heating System, an Automatic Energy Saving Mode, and two built-in Safety Functionalities, which are Overheat Protection and Tip-Over Protection.
Featuring a body that’s cool to the touch even during its operation, the capability of easily heating up a large 1,000 sq. ft. room with no problems at all, a super-quiet operation, and both a Overheat Protection and a Tip-Over Protection Safety Functionalities, this infrared space heater simply does not disappoint.
With it, you can keep any room nice and cozy, whether that’s in a house, office, or any other type of building you can think of, thus allowing you to ensure everyone stays in perfect comfort, even on the coldest days ever.
If you’re interested in buying it, each unit is currently discounted from its normal price of $189.99, now going for just $129.99 each (saves you $60), and each purchase also comes accompanied by a 3-Year Warranty. You can order yours online right now, directly from Dr. Infrared Heater’s official shopping page, or alternatively, you can also get it from Amazon, if you prefer to do so.
