Kogan Heaters
Kogan 2300W 11 Fin Oil Heater
Oil Heater – Certainly works well, I bought a 7 Fin Oil Heater and was happy with it. The & Fin Oil Heater has been used in a very small bedroom that had been icy cold in winter, the 11 Fin is for a larger area and has worked well. Show details
Why go past Kogan? – Being a first member, I saved $10.00 and received free shipping plus $1.98 rewards. I had look at a similar product on other web sites and their prices were $100- $200 more. Cheers Kogan for a great price and product .
Kogan stands by the quality and long-lasting features of the products that they sell and replaced, at no cost, a defective unit previously used. I… Read more
have been incredibly pleased with the support from Kogan and will always choose Kogan over any other retailer.
Great heater in a very small form factor – This heater is so powerful given it's small size. Heats the bedroom beautifully in no time at all. I also like the safety button feature on the… Read more
bottom, the one small problem i have is that I'd love to set the heater up on a smart timer but that's not possible with the safety button.
This review is of a Kogan convection heater which looks like a fireplace with a log fire effect. We paid $178 for it including shipping. It was… Read more
discounted. This review is first impressions - we've today got it set up and running.
Overall it's looking good, and heating well, although the sound of the fan is moderate but persistent, about as loud as the house's split cycle air conditioner in "low" mode.
We bought it because it does not have branding on it. Every time we look at the fireplace heater, we see just the flame effect. If we had purchased a competitor's product, we would end up reading their brand name every time we look at the fireplace. The human eye is attracted to flame. We do not want advertising. So well done, Kogan!
The rest of this review is about minor annoyances and one safety issue. Declaration: I used to make convection heaters when I held down a factory job. The brand was Conray.
The safety issue is that the User Guide does not mention the obvious: unpeel and safely dispose of the plastic protective covering from the glass, before first use. All other safety aspects are covered.
Convection heaters can work silently. They rely on an airflow from base to top. The air is drawn in and passes over an element and is heated to rise out the top. For example, the Con(vection)rays had a reflective metal shell like the Sydney Opera House roof shells, to reflect the orange glow of the elements to provide a feeling of warmth, and to throw the air out into the room. Kogan's KAHTP20BLKA convection heater has a much safer guard than the Conray, times have changed - it is a flat black glass panel - and, like the Conray, it relies purely on air flow.
This KASHFH20WGA is very like the KAHTP20BLKA except it is smaller, has a fan, has a slightly more usable control panel, has bluetooth, a remote, and the black glass panel has flame log fire effect.
The fan is noisy enough that I would switch it off when listening to music or watching a DVD in the room, or sitting nearby for long periods; I can foresee it becoming annoying. You can do that: a feature of the appliance is that you can have the log fire effect on, with all heating off. So we can have a fireplace look 24/7 even in summer.
The flame effect comes from LEDs. Not from the heating elements.
The fireplace "box" is a fair bit smaller than the appliance itself. The fireplace dimensions are 54cm x 23cm.
Whoever wrote the User Guide was in love with the bluetooth and the SmarterHome (TM) app. Kogan SmarterHome apparently is a rebranded Chinese Tuya IoT platform "just another Tuya", it's common in budget smart-home products, and is OK for heaters but not for home security level use. But it may not keep its connection particularly with Google Smart Home. Its Internet of Things security is average. We will cross that bridge later, if we decide we need the app. The app allows for a temperature to be set - e.g. heat to 19 degrees - and a timer to be set.
Right now, opening the cardboard box and installing, when all we wanted to do was to turn the heater on, it took us some time to learn that we can operate the heater without installing the app. Nor do we need to use the remote control to turn the heater on and off, up and down.
The User Manual almost did not want to tell us those things!
The Control Panel is slightly weird for someone with red/green colour blindness. A diode Red indicates 2000watts energy use. The same diode changes to Green for 1000 watt setting.
We have over a dozen blue diodes around the house. Fortunately this heater's blue bluetooth diode turns off after a while. I don't know if it stays on when the wifi has been set up. If it does, I'll place some black tape over it.
We already own a Kogan KAHTP20BLKA and due to the fan noise I would like this fireplace-effect heater to have the same silent convection operation as the KAHTP20BLKA. This would mean no fan, or fan is off on "low heat" settings, e.g. 1000watt or a 500watt setting.