Riscaldatore a infrarossi Dr DR-122 Riscaldatore per cimici con termometro e timer, grande, nero
Riscaldatore a infrarossi Dr DR-122 Riscaldatore per cimici con termometro e timer, grande, nero
Brand:Dr Infrared Heater
3/5
€
475.24
Potenza: 1500,0 watt. Sistema di riscaldamento ad alte prestazioni che raggiunge rapidamente 120-155F in pochi minuti. Include termometro/timer con allarme. La tenda portatile, robusta e pieghevole consente di riporla facilmente dopo ogni utilizzo. Sistema di cremagliera in acciaio a 2 ruote che si adatta facilmente a una varietà di articoli per il trattamento termico. Enorme area di trattamento di 38x38x26 pollici. Sistema di riscaldamento aggiornato e affidabile che raggiunge rapidamente 120-155F in pochi minuti e tratta efficacemente le cimici dei letti in tutte le fasi della vita.
Potenza: 1500,0 watt. Sistema di riscaldamento ad alte prestazioni che raggiunge rapidamente 120-155F in pochi minuti. Include termometro/timer con allarme. La tenda portatile, robusta e pieghevole consente di riporla facilmente dopo ogni utilizzo. Sistema di cremagliera in acciaio a 2 ruote che si adatta facilmente a una varietà di articoli per il trattamento termico. Enorme area di trattamento di 38x38x26 pollici. Sistema di riscaldamento aggiornato e affidabile che raggiunge rapidamente 120-155F in pochi minuti e tratta efficacemente le cimici dei letti in tutte le fasi della vita.
Assembly required
Yes
Batteries
1 AAA batteries required.
Batteries required
Yes
Brand
Dr Infrared Heater
Burner type
Radiant
Color
Black
Country of Origin
China
Customer Reviews
4.0 4.0 out of 5 stars 173 ratings 4.0 out of 5 stars
Very, disappointing. One real positive point, several okays, and then the significant not goods.
Before the product review, you should know our background. We are highly experienced international travelers due to work requirements. We’ve gone through multiple BB exposure events. One of the core protective measures for the home is a suitcase heater. We’ve successfully used a PackTite for more than one decade, nearly two. It finally died and it appears they’re not in business anymore. Next thing to understand is these creatures. 120°F will kill most larvae and a fraction of adults while doing some injury to most of the rest. There will be a reasonable number unharmed, and it only takes one egg-layer to spread the infestation. The injured may not be able to feed or may not able to breed but they’ll still bedevil you. Most eggs will be unharmed. Every degree above 120 will get more of them until you hit 127 which is instant kill for the entire brood. I see questions and reviews saying it didn’t kill them all or they heated their suitcase for an hour and it was still cold inside. Think of your suitcase like a steak. Grill it for a while and the outside is nice and done but it’s still red in the middle. To get well done you’ve got to let it cook longer. To guarantee a good treatment you need to get your bag hot and then keep it there to heat soak until it’s well done. The bugs will sense killing heat at the edges and try to move away from it so they’ll seek shelter in the area best insulated from that heat…the center of the bag or a bundle of clothing. Only time will allow that area to get cooked. Our PackTite would get the exterior of the object being treated to about 135 in an hour. We’d leave it running to heat soak for three to four hours before checking with an infrared thermometer (~30 USD online). We had two infrared guns to double check the temp. Verify heat penetration all the way to the center, inside shoes, everywhere. Even if your heater comes with a thermostat/thermometer, get one or more of the infrared sensors as a double check to protect yourself. About this product. Understand there is nothing about the heater that is infrared. It’s basically a space heater which blows ambient air across heating elements which is why they say the heater needs to be in a room at 70 degrees or higher. There is little to no radiated IR energy. First the good part. • It’ll handle two standard suitcases at once with plenty of room for the air to circulate. That’s it. That’s the good part. Acceptable: • The pieces go together fairly easily so assembly is mostly intuitive. However, the vertical uprights have a series of spaced holes for the rack holders which are not equidistant from the ends. Pay attention you put the section with the longest distance to a hole at the bottom. This gives clearance for air to go under your bags. • While it might have added to the cost, I would have preferred the four poles on the sides to be of the extensible type or just bar stock with a hinge. That way, when finished, I could fold the two racks (already designed to fold in half), fold the side pieces, and stored the now thinner unit against a wall in a closet or something. Now I have to pull the entire frame out of the bag to get those four poles loose from the corner pieces to pack it up. I’ll probably keep the front and back squares assembled. The PackTite had the base rack which included legs long enough to provide the air circulation space. The rest folded down to make a package short enough to slide under a bed. • The enclosure is heavy mylar lined fabric, so I expect it’ll last for some time. There are a LOT of zippers so there are a lot of places for your hot air (and maybe some bugs) to escape. • It’s BIG, it would be nice to have had a couple of handles sewn on to the enclosure to help move it around when not loaded. • I like the inlet tube for the heater. However, I am not sure how many heating cycles the elastic is going to last through. • There are screen vents set into the enclosure. I don’t think those points of failure are really needed. I know, since the heater is pumping in new air you need someplace to let the cold air out. However, there is enough leakage through the zippers I don’t think these are needed. Also, being as they are at the same height as the inlet, the fan basically blows some of the air from the heater right back out again. Inefficient. Not good: • The unit does not get hot enough to guarantee a kill. After one hour with the unit empty, the included thermometer indicated 120 degrees at the top of the unit. It was 118 at floor level at the far end from the heater and 127 at the inlet. The test piece was my daypack from a recent business trip. Inside were dress slacks, dress shirt, casual shirt, a couple pairs of socks and underwear along with a pair of dress shoes. Think of it as a gym bag. One hour later the IR sensor indicated an external temperature of 118 on the surface of the daypack, the probe read 108 in the center of the bag. This isn’t going to kill anything. I moved the bag to the top shelf. One hour later, IR gun says 121 external, included probe indicates 114 internal. Another hour, 122 external, 115 internal. After 4 hours I read 124° external 120° internal (The IR gun said 123° inside when I opened the bag and shoved it in). If this had been a regular suitcase, a complete treatment would take on the order of two days. Two suit cases? A week? It still would not have gotten hot enough to guarantee a complete kill. Particularly on the lower rack. We removed the clothing in a bag and ran it through the electric clothes dryer which made it to 134 within 10 minutes. • Conclusion: The heater is undersized for the area to be treated. Proof is the lower rack never breaking 120°. • There are too many zippers. Yes, you need them to get the rack into the bag but they leak too much heated air. The PackTite had one zipper that ran the length of the top. The remainder of the enclosure was sealed with no vents. The heater itself was inside the enclosure. Maybe it was a fire hazard, I provided mitigation for that potential, but it reliably ran the external temps of the bag up to 130 within two hours even in a 40° room. Five hours is the longest period we had to soak our largest, most tightly packed suitcase. • Given the whole zipper thing, give me a second cover or sleeve that provides more insulation to trap heat on the top and sides. We’re thinking of putting a bed spread over it next time. • I have doubts about the temp sensor provided with the device. Yeah, thermocouples are generally highly accurate, but this thing consistently read lower than the known reliable IR sensors of which we have several that read within a degree of each other. Most electric heaters have an overheat shutoff. Even feeding prewarmed air into it won’t solve the problem. What you find publicly available simply will not go much over 130 degrees without turning itself off. Therefore, the heater cannot heat a thermally leaky enclosure to killing temperatures, particularly one this large. The heater outlet temp being 127 is not encouraging for this one. The packtite air outlet was 150 though I did see temps as high as 155 once or twice. Solutions to this products problems: 1. Give me a heater which is capable of higher temperatures, it might keep up with the losses. 2. Give me two heaters capable of 130°+, yes, that will require separate circuits to plug into. 3. Give me a single unit that operates at 220 volts which will turn out a high volume of 135-145 degree air. Even houses with gas dryers likely have a 220v outlet there. 4. Give me a heater designed to use a 1 lb. propane tank. It would not be that difficult to come up with a blown unit with a catalytic burner (hot but no open flame) that could self-regulate to the 135-145 degree range. Don’t go hotter than that or it’ll kill any electronics you forget to remove before heating. The mylar can stand it. Most mylar is rated to well over 200°. The suitcase will fail first. I'd really like the seller to come up wi
Scritto da: Growlor
Great for peace of mind after travel
After a bed bug infestation cost us several thousand dollars in exterminator fees, I went looking for a device to use when I got home from my many business travels (last year, pre-CoViD19.) This was a nicely priced item with good capacity, so I bought it and used it several times (last year.) As far as funciton, it does what it says it does and is easy to use, but requires you to set aside an hour or more of time "babysitting it" if you have any items that could be damaged by extreme heat. The challenge is that the thermometer they include does NOT automatically control the heater. So you have to turn it on, wait for the temp to hit the target temp you set (there are instructions on how to set an alert on the included thermomoeter when this happens) and then keep switching it on and off to keep it above the desired killing range. This isn't the end of the world, but if they offered an upgraded model with an auto- control setting that was close in price, I'd pick it over this one. As it stands, it works fine, just make sure you keep an eye on the temp while running it to keep it in range. I also noticed a lot of people complaining about the heater shutting down or dying due to overheating, so make sure the port the heater attaches into is clear and not obstructed to minimize the risk of this happening to you. The person who said the frame is weak is "sort of" right: the shelves fold in the middle for storage and when in use they do sag a little, but I have put a LOT of weight on mine and only been casual (ie not super-careful, but not throwing it in basketball-style either) about setting my full size and filled to the brim travel suitcase in it without damaging the rack.
Scritto da: Jen
Did exactly what we needed
We bought this because we had a very traumatic experience with bed bugs a few years ago that cost us a lot of money, stress, and mental anguish. Our exterminator advised us to run everything through the dryer or wipe it down with alcohol when we returned from traveling. Some things can't fit in the dryer and be wiped down. Those things would go into our shed and stay or some things we put into the car and left it in the sun for several hours to heat them up. We ran across these heaters and decided to try one. We put it together and tested it before we left so we would know how it worked and it was all set to go when we returned from our trip. It does heat up very quickly, we discovered that you can get the internal temperature to stabilize by opening the vents on the sides. So, yes it does climb, but eventually the temperature will level off if the vents are open to allow the heat to escape. We did set ours up on our deck outside and it was about 90 degrees outside, so it didn't take long to heat our things. The great part was we could put a lot of stuff in this, especially bigger items like beach chairs and suitcases and still run smaller things through the dryer. Using both allowed us to heat everything much quicker than we were able to before and give us some peace of mind that we are preventing another infestation.
Scritto da: norman ford
One Star
Stopped working after less than 5 minutes. Returned
