The comment that the 157 takes much more time to warm up, how much more approx. Dont want to wait 10 mins to get heat.
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Not that Bad, Tom. I just timed it for you. In 60 seconds, standing right under it, I feel the heat. In 2 minutes, the heating element has gone from black to red to orange, and the heat is pretty good. My bathroom is kinda big, maybe 9 feet on a side, so the heater doesn't heat the room quickly, but I have it right over where we get out of the shower, and it makes a real difference. It's about a foot away from where I stand to use the sink, shaving etc., and by the time I'm done showering and at the sink, it really helps, especially in the miserable winter we just had. I put it on, if I remember, about five minutes in advance, but if I don't remember, it's still a help pretty quickly. Not that Bad, Tom. I just timed it for you. In 60 seconds, standing right under it, I feel the heat. In 2 minutes, the heating element has gone from black to red to orange, and the heat is pretty good. My bathroom is kinda big, maybe 9 feet on a side, so the heater doesn't heat the room quickly, but I have it right over where we get out of the shower, and it makes a real difference. It's about a foot away from where I stand to use the sink, shaving etc., and by the time I'm done showering and at the sink, it really helps, especially in the miserable winter we just had. I put it on, if I... » Read More Not that Bad, Tom. I just timed it for you. In 60 seconds, standing right under it, I feel the heat. In 2 minutes, the heating element has gone from black to red to orange, and the heat is pretty good. My bathroom is kinda big, maybe 9 feet on a side, so the heater doesn't heat the room quickly, but I have it right over where we get out of the shower, and it makes a real difference. It's about a foot away from where I stand to use the sink, shaving etc., and by the time I'm done showering and at the sink, it really helps, especially in the miserable winter we just had. I put it on, if I remember, about five minutes in advance, but if I don't remember, it's still a help pretty quickly. « Show Less
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Mine started sending heat immediately, but I don't use it often as it's in my utility room. When I turned it on I feltnheat right away while I stood underneath it.
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I'll say my tiny bathroom (6x6) still takes about 15 or more to get even some fealing of heat. Im acually looking for a better heater now..
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That's hard to say, but our element is red in a minute or two and sending heat from overhead position. Used in combination laundry/shower in basement. By the time you exit the shower, the 8' 8' room is comfortably warm.
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Good question...it does warm up initially...takes about 45 seconds, I guess, unless you left it "on" constantly.. Then it's good to go for multiple cups and fires them out very fast. So to be clear, it does take longer than 15 seconds, if you just did one cup.
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It has been our experience that once you activate the chemicals that make it hot, that's it. It stays hot for 10/hrs and there is no way to stop that process once started.
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The steamer that amazon sent to me is the 1200watt, but I gues is better because the only diference is the time of heating, I mean if with 1200 I take 45seconds for steam, maybe with the 1600 you only need to wait 30 seconds, but once is steaming, you dont need those values anymore. I recomend less watts because will be less energy consumed,
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It starts to get warm in 2-3 minutes, but 10-15 minutes makes the towels toasty, so turn it on ahead of time.
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It doesn't really take that long. I feel it starting to really heat up within a couple minutes; however, it does probably take 10 to 15 mins to reach max heat. I hardly ever have it up that high though. Hope this helps.
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Starts heating immediately, but I assume takes 15 minutes to fully warm up. There are no batteries in mine.
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Timer goes for an hour you just have to reset it. Should not bother it at all to run it three hours. It will only get so hot
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Honestly I haven't timed it but it didn't seem long. You have to lie on the bed to feel the heat in my opinion. It's difficult to feel the warmth with your hands.
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The warmer heats up very quickly, within half an hour. It takes about another hour to really warm the towels. I have forgotten to turn it on first thing in the morning and have had warm-ish towels within 20 minutes.
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If its actually too hot to touch then thats bad, but if its warm I think thats normal. I tested mine by turning it up to 6 for a few minutes and thats all it took to get it warm. I supposed if I left it for hours at 6 it would feel quite warm. I don't think its a big deal.
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I have used it for over 25 minutes and had no issues! I handle may get a tad bit warm I believe it all depends on how high you have it running and if you are using the black box it comes with. I use it on high with the box set at about med and have had no issues! You will enjoy ever second minute hour or marthon!
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no -I only run it maybe 10 mins so I haven't noticed anything like that but I would not consider it a normal thing to heat up so much-ask the company
2081547
It takes about 10 minutes if the towel is dry to warm up. If you have s do towel it takes longer depending on hod damp it ox. I would suggest a dry towel to start with.
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Instructions say 30 sec at a time until warm enough. It does not hold the heat very long at all. Not worth it.
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My wife says it takes less than 1 minute to reach temperature. Hope that helps.
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Because there may be many times when you don't need 10,000 W to do the job. Whenever the 10,000 W heater is running that's what it is using. If 5000 W will take the chill out you're using half the energy.