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Your cart is empty.MADE IN THE USA! The Overhead Mount Sweeter Heater is safe, energy efficient, indestructible, and reliable. This is an infrared radiant heater, intended to heat the animal underneath. Infrared heat is absorbed by the animal underneath. Unless measuring heat with a radiant heat gun, a thermometer will only measure the heat that is released from the animal. It's not a space heater and will not feel hot like one. Designed to be hung or suspended from a ceiling or bracket from above, approximately 6-20 inches over the animals to be warmed. There are no hot spots, develops a uniform heat pattern, and has a 3-year warranty. The surface temperature of the lens will range from a safe 160-180 degrees (F) and will not burn your animals. It is designed to warm the animal, not the environment and is fully adjustable to maintain the ideal comfort level for your animals. For additional safety measures, the Sweeter Heater has an internal snap action thermal control to insure heaters turns off automatically when heat is not allowed to escape. The 11x40 model has up to 440 square inches of soft uniform infrared heat and if using for brooding chicks, we suggest 50-75 chicks will fit comfortably (also dependent upon environmental factors). Sweeter Heaters are ideal for use in chick brooders, chicken coops, whelping areas, goats, kennel runs, farrowing units, dog and cat houses/crates, rabbits, bees, and bird and reptile cages. The SWEETER HEATER develops a uniform heat pattern, it uses less power to operate, it is unbreakable, it is sealed so it can be washed. Average weekly energy cost to run 24x7 is $3.02.
Beverly Reynolds
Reviewed in Canada on March 6, 2024
Very expensive but did its job this winter and helped keep the chickens comfortable over roost at -58C
mike may
Reviewed in the United States on March 20, 2024
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JMo
Reviewed in the United States on November 14, 2022
I purchased this for use in a tortoise house. I don't like using bulbs or high-intensity heat when there is substrate involved. I figured I'd see if this 40" unit could heat my entire roughly 44" square by 37" tall tort house. (It is fully insulated and I live in Southern California.) The answer is- no. But it's close. With evenings in the 50s it does stay just around 70 degrees. (Set at 80F though.) I do want it a little hotter than that so I'll be adding a secondary heat source. All that being said this really isn't intended as a stand alone heater. In its primary purpose as a basking area it does work fine. I am trying to use it differently which was really my mistake in planning. My tort certainly prefers the side of the house with this heater. And I like the even heat distribution though it does heat slowly. I am sure that's part of the issue- by the time the temp. drops this can't catch up to make up the difference. The reason for 4 stars is that there isn't a power switch- just the plug. My power strip (with digital thermostat/power) is tucked behind the tort house and not easy to get too. A simple power switch- for this amount of money- should be a no brainer. (Of note- I bought the unit for top mounting and then changed how I wanted it. The brackets shown are what we rigged; not their hardware.)Update- I built a new solid front door for nighttime. . And also added a different plastic flap for the day. We just had a cold snap of 40s at night and this kept it nice and toasty at 80+. (California) For reference the tort hut is 4’ x4’.
Drea
Reviewed in the United States on April 7, 2021
I wasn't looking to spend over $50 on a heater for my chickens but after reading all the reviews of other kinds of heaters, within my original price range, that burnt down coops, I felt this was my safest option. I am so glad I took a risk with price over safety! This product is outstanding! I live in Minnesota where our winter nights average -25F but can get to be -40F, or worse, and my 10 hens are all nearing 7 and 6 years old. Our 8x4x12'ish coop is only partially insulated on the roof area and their run is wrapped with plastic around it during winter months, making it only 10-15 degrees warmer. I felt I needed something more for my girls to be cozy dozy at night. I have used heat lamps with the red bulb at night, but it seemed I had more pecking/bullying going on and I constantly thought about fire safety because of all the hay and dust that is naturally around. I have used small space heater fans that had an auto shut off but they would still add too much heat. This year I just wanted to feel good for once and for all about my chickens' safety and well being. This has been a great purchase! It does not get too hot at all and adds just enough to take out the chill. My chickens can easily roost under or near it if they want and it is quiet, dark(no light emits from it), and of incredible quality! The biggest plus is that its truly safe with nothing or no one able to get burned by it. I am sooo excited that I found this product! I am so very thankful for the person/s who thought of this design and went ahead and created it to sell. THANK YOU!!! YOU ARE AN AWESOME GENIUS!! God bless you!!! I left it plugged in/running all winter long, as soon as the temps at night dropped below -18. I left it on all day and all night, even though the girls spend most of the day out in run with other winter barriers. I didn't notice any major dip in our electric bill. I am very thankful for this product.
Rooster
Reviewed in the United States on April 14, 2018
I purchased this heater because reviews of lower wattage ones stated that they could not keep chicks warm enough unless they were in the basement or house. Mine were going to be in an attached garage.I was skeptical that this would keep the chicks warm enough because the temperature in the garage was upper 40s. The directions said to keep the heater no closer than 6 inches from the shavings. This was not good enough and the newly hatched chicks were standing to keep warm. I lowered it to 5 inches and they settled down and it worked great afterwards. I did raise the heater to 6 inches after a week. I was not concerned with a risk of fire because the shavings were not hot. That was because the garage was cool. Had the garage been warmer, then 6 inches would have been fine.These heaters work really well. I have an LED light bulb on a timer so the chicks will get a sleep cycle at night. The chicks are much calmer with this method of brooding and are doing amazingly well.The units does have an intense smell of epoxy for the first day. It does go away and then the only smell you will have is chick poo, which is worse. (and normal)You do need to remember to clean out under the heater. The chicks will poop under it a lot and raise the bed up. You should do this every three or four days. I use a dust pan.I have 65 chicks under this one (11x40) and I think that is about the limit. I cannot remember how many chicks the manual states it will cover. While other reviewers stated that you can do more chicks because the chicks are moving around, if you do a nighttime sleep cycle, they all congregate under the brooder heater when it is dark.I will never go back to heat lamps. These work much better, are safer, and cost less to run. It also makes their feathers come in faster because they grow faster when the chicks are exposed to colder temps when they are not under the heater. This does not affect slow feathering breeds, however.
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