Fostoria elec. heater need opinions please

[mebedave]

Does anyone have any experience or comment in regards to this: http://www.amazon.com/dp/B000M1H8RK/?tag=atomicindus08-20
It’s the FES-1024-1CA Fostoria Heat Wave portable electric heater. I found a good deal on one $250.00 have not bought it yet, looking for opinions. The seller has two I may make him an offer for both. Keep one as a portable unit and make the other a wall mount for my shop.
By the numbers I need about 50,000 btu's for my shop, this unit puts out 34,000 btu's. I believe it has a built in thermostat 40-100 degrees, I like this! If I wall mount it I think I’ll see if I can pull the guts of the thermostat out of the unit and mount it on the wall away from the heater and in reach for easy adjustments.

UPDATE HE SOLD THEM...

 

[jbs]

No direct experience with the unit, but I saw them in the globalindustrial catalog. TPI is a US company and both the heaters I've bought from them were made in the USA (Kentucky I think) and very good quality. It wasn't clear to me if Fostoria is a different brand or a product/sub-brand of TPI.

For $250 I think its a no brainer. I'd be interested in one of them if you decide not to keep both. PM me if you want to re-sell one for a little profit.

broc

 

[frankush]

Don't know anything about that particular unit but Fostoria is generally known for making a quality product.

 

[94yj]

do they make any that are not 3 phase?

 

[mebedave]

do they make any that are not 3 phase?

Yes they do