Aeno Premium Eco Smart LED Heater review

The price of heating your own home has risen dramatically over the previous couple of years and there’s no signal it’s going to get cheaper any time quickly. So any heater that claims to have the ability to maintain you heat for much less is at all times going to be engaging, and it’s one of many causes persons are going mad for electrical blankets.

Heated blankets – or throws – are nice for those who don’t thoughts dwelling in an in any other case chilly residence, however what if you wish to warmth an entire room, maybe one which doesn’t profit from central heating?

Infrared heaters just like the Aeno Premium Eco Good LED Heater use much less energy than convection heaters and warmth objects somewhat than the air. Nevertheless, the Aeno additionally makes use of convection to present you that warm-room feeling.

It sounds good, however is it value spending quite a bit to get a extra environment friendly heater?

Options & design

• 11m thick
• App managed
• Flooring standing or wall mount choices

Design-wise, the Aeno is definitely engaging. It is available in black, white or gray and is actually glass sandwich: there’s a panel of tempered glass back and front with what’s presumably the infrared coils within the center.

The entire thing is simply 11mm thick, a metre extensive and 365mm tall. Don’t unintentionally purchase the unique mannequin which appears an identical: the brand new LED mannequin has a show on its management panel to indicate the present (and ‘set by you’ temperature) plus buttons to regulate the temperature you need and a Good button which toggles between fixed heating and an energy-saving mode.

Don’t confuse the Aeno with different ‘glass panel’ heaters such because the Princess or the Devola that we’ve reviewed. These use much more energy and don’t use infrared.  

Within the field is a pair of ft if you need the heater to be freestanding, plus a pair of wall mounts. Each connect utilizing thumbscrews, however you’ll want some instruments to make use of the included screws and wall plugs for wall mounting.

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The Aeno Premium Eco Good LED Heater may be mounted horizontally or vertically, however for those who go for the latter, it’s very troublesome to see the buttons and show. In any other case, you simply need to look around the facet.

Through the companion app you possibly can set the brightness of the show, which is a pleasant contact, and you need to use it as a distant management to show it on and off and alter the temperature. There’s even a setting for “ceiling mounting” which is uncommon.

Though one of many advantages of infrared heating is that the heater doesn’t get scorching, the Aeno’s glass does as a result of it’s each an infrared and convection heater.

Within the app you possibly can set this temperature, from 60°C to 120°C. You’ll need to decide the bottom in case you have children, however the highest will warmth up the room sooner (and use essentially the most energy – extra on that later).

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A helpful security function is an auto cut-out which prompts if the heater is knocked over.

Different helpful app options are timers and schedules. Use the primary to place the heater on for a set variety of hours. The second is nice if you need the heater to come back on earlier than you rise up, say, and warmth a room you’ll be in afterward.

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It’s additionally helpful to have the app as a distant management for those who put the heater in a backyard room, as you possibly can flip it on (and off) from the home with no need to go down the backyard.

Handier nonetheless – in case you have a hands-free sensible assistant – is assist for Alexa and Google Assistant. As soon as paired, you can’t solely flip the Aeno on and off together with your voice but in addition set a particular temperature, simply as with many different sensible heating techniques. The very first thing you’ll have to do, although, is change the title from Aeno Premium Heater with Show, otherwise you’ll need to say that mouthful each time you need to management it.

Efficiency

• Ultimate for rooms as much as 15m²
• Environment friendly vitality use

The Aeno Premium Eco Good LED Heater works effectively, with the proviso that you just’re utilizing it in a comparatively small, well-insulated room.

Aeno says it is going to warmth areas as much as 30m², however that’s somewhat optimistic. It does effectively in areas round a 3rd that dimension (together with insulated backyard rooms), however I wouldn’t advocate it for something over 20m², and positively not in an uninsulated storage or different outbuilding.

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Utilizing infrared means you’ll really feel the warmth immediately, just like the way it feels if you’re being heated by the solar.

Due to this, you have to place the Aeno so there are not any objects between you and the heater, in any other case it is going to warmth these as an alternative.

The convection half – the recent glass panel – will heat the air within the room, similar to a conventional radiator. Aeno says this is likely one of the Premium Eco Good LED Heater’s highlights: it doesn’t use a fan to blow scorching air (and allergens) across the room, and makes no noise.

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In fact, it is a comparatively sluggish course of, which may be sped up by setting the panel to warmth to 120°C. At this setting, the app stories the heater makes use of 783W, in comparison with round 160W when it’s set to 60°C.

Both approach, it is a lot lower than many different electrical heaters which usually use a minimum of 1000W, if not 2000W or 3000W.

It means the Aeno’s working prices are fairly a bit much less: underneath 0.8kW per hour. At present UK costs, that interprets to round 22-25p per hour in case you have it set to 120°C and fixed heating.

Scale back the temperature and use the Good heating mode and it’ll be even much less.

The app tries to be useful and show energy and vitality graphs on the Statistics tab, however in reality, they’re not that helpful. You may maintain your finger on a selected day to see how a lot vitality was consumed, however there’s no strategy to see how lengthy the heater was on, nor enter the quantity you pay for electrical energy and see a abstract of what it’s price you.

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For this overview, I used the heater in a front room round 3 x 3m, with the traditional radiator turned off. The Aeno did a great job of heating the room to twenty°C and maintaining it there, though on a very chilly December day with outdoors temperatures beneath freezing it took a great few hours to attain that temperature, ranging from a cold 13°C.

Essentially the most vitality utilized in a day was 1.41kWh, which is about 38p – not dangerous in any respect, particularly when in comparison with the nearly-as-expensive Mill Light Air which, in our checks, prices about 70p for half a day’s heating. Don’t put an excessive amount of weight on that comparability, although, as they have been examined in several houses and different-size rooms.

There’s a working complete within the top-left nook which tells me the heater has used virtually 8kWh in three weeks, and a barely pointless historical past of when the heater was turned on, off and was heating.

There’s no graph of temperature over time, which might have been good to see how rapidly the room heats up and what the room temperature was at any given second.

Worth & availability

The Aeno Premium Eco Good LED Heater isn’t low-cost. It’s billed as a designer radiator and prices £259.99 from varied retailers together with Amazon and Robert Dyas.

It isn’t that can be purchased within the US.

For alternate options, see our roundup of the perfect heaters.

Ought to I purchase the Aeno Premium Eco Good LED Heater?

If you need a heater that’s economical to run, and also you don’t thoughts paying a premium up entrance for it, the Aeno is a superb alternative.

It is going to prevent cash in the long term, however utilizing my tough calculations, it’d take round a yr of utilizing it on daily basis to interrupt even in comparison with shopping for a ‘low-cost’ £40 2Kw convection heater.

For those who use it for 5 of the winter months, it means you’ll begin saving in round two years’ time. In fact, there are advantages: the moment warmth you get from infrared heating, all of the sensible options within the app and, in fact, the very fact it’s a nice-looking factor.