Smart but not that powerful

Verdict

The Duux Edge 1000 is far more interesting than most convector heaters, with a wise, vent-free facia that seems uncluttered and fashionable. It’s an efficient system, producing sufficient warmth for medium-sized, well-insulated rooms, and it’s straightforward to make use of due to a distant management and Duux’s respectable good app. It’s a contact costly for its output, nevertheless, and can value extra to run than an infrared heater.

Introduction

The Duux Edge 1000 is likely one of the Dutch producer’s small vary of convector heaters. They’re obtainable with the one kilowatt (kW) output examined right here, or with 1.5kW or 2kW, and may be had in white or darkish gray. All of the fashions have fairly subtle controls, duplicated on a equipped infrared distant, but they’re additionally good: working with the Duux app to make it a lot simpler to make use of extra superior options.

Convector heaters are sometimes boring trying, flimsy units, so the Edge 1000 instantly stands out. Its un-vented and uncluttered entrance panel is fashionable and fashionable sufficient for any setting. It additionally appears like a step up in high quality when in comparison with cheaper convectors – the panels are thick sufficient that they don’t ring out everytime you faucet them. Whereas this heater’s white end doesn’t look fairly as fashionable because the gray Duux Edge 1500 reviewed final yr, it’s nonetheless stylish, and fewer ‘of the second’, so it’s maybe much less prone to go outdated.

Design and Options

• Beautiful fashionable design
• Wonderful good options
• Distant and app management

The Duux Edge 1000 seems virtually like a clean panel, due to the angled edges that have a tendency to hide the controls set into its proper hand facet. These comprise a small LED display screen with buttons to handle energy, temperature, schedules, an off timer, and the evening mode.

They’re all duplicated on the infrared distant management you additionally get within the field. It’s a measure of Duux’s consideration to element that on white fashions that is white, whereas it’s gray on the gray ones.

This heater comes with wall mounting brackets and a set of steel legs, the ft of that are lined with felt pads to cease them scratching wood flooring. Surprisingly, maybe, the Edge 1000 isn’t any smaller than the extra powerful fashions within the vary. Nonetheless, at solely seven centimetres deep it received’t stick out an excessive amount of for those who wall-mount it, and its 80cm width can be straightforward to accommodate in most rooms. This isn’t a heavy heater, but with no deal with it’s not the best to maneuver round – particularly not when it’s nonetheless sizzling.

When you can function the Edge 1000 absolutely with its onboard controls, issues start to get complicated when you delve into its partially preconfigured schedules. It’s a lot simpler to simply set up the app, which presents the identical options because the distant and management panel, but makes scheduling a breeze. It’s also possible to combine it with the Google Assistant or Alexa, and management the heater along with your voice.

Sadly, Duux’s second-generation app nonetheless isn’t good, virtually a yr on from after I beforehand had issues with it. I used to be at first unable so as to add the Edge 1000 in any respect, later receiving a notification that the system had non permanent issues. After subsequently getting the whole lot up and operating, I made a decision to check in (which is non-compulsory), after which the heater disappeared from the app and I had so as to add it once more.

It’s a disgrace that the app might not give an incredible first impression, as a result of it’s high-quality when you’ve set it up correctly. I significantly like the way in which you’ll be able to create and drag a schedule to the occasions and days you need, as within the left-hand picture beneath.

With no fan, it is a near-silent heater: the one sound you’ll hear is the clicking of a management relay because it cycles on and off to keep up the set temperature. The Edge 1000 does beep while you use its distant or management panel, but you’ll be able to cease this by deciding on Evening Mode.

This heater options open window detection, switching itself off to preserve power if the room temperature immediately drops by 5°C. That’s fairly a excessive bar, although: on nonetheless, cool days you possibly can simply have a window open with out dropping that a lot warmth. The Edge 1000 additionally has a toddler lock to stop urchins enjoying with its controls. Its case does get sizzling in use, so that you shouldn’t depart youthful kids unsupervised when it’s operating anyway.

Efficiency

• Pretty efficient
• May very well be costly to run

With solely a 1kW ranking, you shouldn’t count on the Edge 1000 to warmth bigger rooms, and even warmth a small one particularly quickly. I examined it on a freezing January day, in a medium-sized bed room that had been allowed to chill to 16°C in a single day. After half-hour the Edge 1000 had acquired this as much as 17.3°C, and after an hour it had hit 18.3°C. That’s a decent efficiency, and positively sufficient to keep up an honest temperature, but this heater in all probability isn’t excellent for the occasions while you need to heat issues up extra rapidly – you may need to take into account the next powered different for that.

As you’d in all probability count on for a 1kW system, the Edge 1000 consumes about 1 kilowatt hour (kWh) of electrical energy every hour – I measured 1.063kWh through the above check. Nevertheless, it’s vital to know that heaters cycle on and off as soon as the room reaches the goal temperature. Their precise consumption will depend upon how sizzling you’re making an attempt to get, how massive the room is, and the way nicely it’s insulated.

In my well-insulated check room I’d count on the Edge 1000 to make use of round 50-70% of the above determine every hour as soon as the room was as much as temperature on a chilly day. On the January 2024 value cap of 29p per kWh, that means I’d pay 29p an hour whereas the room was warming up, and maybe 15-20p every hour to maintain it heat.

With no core to talk of, the Edge 1000 is fast to heat up, but it doesn’t proceed to launch a lot warmth after it’s been switched off. I measured a peak of 18.5°C quarter-hour after unplugging it, an extra 0.2°C improve. On the one hand, this implies it’s much less prone to overshoot your chosen temperature, but however it may possibly make for a barely on/off really feel to the way in which it heats.

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