Newair Electric Garage Heater, Adjustable Ceiling/Wall Mounted with Tilt Head, Heats up to 500 sq. ft. of Space | Electric Heater for Heating Garages, Workshops, Warehouses, Job Sites, and More

Received my G73 heater in 2 days. I'm liking the Prime Membership, well worth $79.00 a year. I have a 220v A/C unit in my garage, rated at 20 amp. I didn't want to run any more wire to use this heater, I did purchase it and realized all the post about running 10/2 with a ground and a 30 amp breaker. Well we took the electrical cover off the back, the heater is wired with 12/2 with a ground so we tried it for a couple of days now and it hasn't tripped my 20 amp breaker. I have 12/2 with a ground run, it's about 50' to the breaker box. I bought a Utilitech 12 gauge A/C plug from Lowe's, Model # 0051659 which is the same male plug as my A/C unit, the other end is female, I cut that off to run to the G73. Thermostat is all the way and not tripping the breaker and the wire is not even warm. It's 37 degrees outside and it's 78 degrees in my garage right now, fixing to turn it down a bit. My garage is 24' x 24' insulated. garage door is insulated also. Hope this helps anyone with questions about wiring. Also the Utilitech plug I bought, on the package is 12/3 SPT-3, 20A-250V-5000W.It's December 18th, still running the G73, only after work and on the weekends. I was debating putting a switch, but I don't think my garage gets that cold. From what I understand the lowest setting on the thermostat is 45 degrees, my garage might get to 50 degrees if it's really cold. Running about 4-5 hours a night, still hasn't tripped my 20 amp double breaker, wire still doesn't get warm. My 12/2 wire run to the garage is about 60' from the breaker box also. I'm not saying this is the way to do this, already had someone tell me I was stupid, but it's never unattended and I don't use it often.Update 12-10-14Second year using the G73 heater, had a problem with it and contacted NewAir,a connector broke off inside the heater. A new heater was sent to me in less than a week. All is good, great customer service.

First I never ever write a review (shame on me) but I think this is worth it. I am going to be straight and quick for the people who need to know the important stuff.I live in IL, needed to keep my 3 car 450sq ft garage heated ALL THE TIME. To be specific, My house is a normal 3 car garage house in a normal suburban division with stupid association. that is about 7 yrs old. I dont live on country land, or have a barn with 3 car garage or a detached garage. This is a very conventional home that would be similiar to the majority of people out there. I wanted to make that clear so that others can get some kind of idea of my project and how it relates to theirs.What I needed was 24/7 temp controlled garage, not just while working in there, but for my cars. I store one up on my lift for winter so I don't dry rot my tires and to make the cars drive better during winter startups. So I wanted to leave it on 24/7.This is a hard wire 240v unit. I ran a seperate breaker in my garage for my 4 post lift and my TIG welder so I was able to run conduit pipes from the breaker panel with a 30amp breaker and ran 10 gauge wiring (2 hot wires - each wire is 120v, and 1 neutral/ground) to the unit and connected it to an appliance whip from home depot.Anyway, the unit works great and heats up my garage very quickly when it was 20 degrees out. That was the day i installed it and it ran well. Within 20mins it was up to 70 degrees in the garage and steady. I do have insulated walls, epoxy coating on the floor (which helps a lot with keeping the ground warmer, the poors are closed up and i noticed a significant improvement on the floor temperature before and after the epoxy coating.)So everything ran fine on first time startup, smell from the heater coil burned off in about 30mins, not strong odor at all. I ran this every day with the garage temp set on the thermostat around 70 degrees. I RAN THIS EVERYDAY 24/7, After the 7th day, it died. I tapped the side lightly and had a spark. Not sure what it is from, but it shorted somehow.I ordered a new one and have already installed it and has been running for 16 hrs straight now. I will keep my posting up to date.

This heater arrived defective. The thermostat sticks intermittently and the heater won't shut off.I ordered it in July and plugged to make ensure it works. The fan operates and it produces heat.I didn't install it until completing my new shop in September, whereupon I discovered that the heater won't always shut down when the desired room temperature is reached.It may cycle on and off for a day or two, holding the temperature around a desired 60 - 65 deg but then I will return to the shop after several hours or overnight and find the temperature at 80 - 90 and the heater running. Turning the control knob the lowest setting has no effect.Unfortunately, Amazon's return policy has expired. Amazon customer service recommended I contact New Air. The warranty requires me to ship the heater to New Air for repair or replacement with shipping costs at my expense. This involves the cost of shipping and I will be without a heater until it is returned.I will probably use this heater, controlling the heat by turning it on and off with the circuit breaker when in the shop and keeping the shop temp above freezing at night with a chicken coop heater until I buy a replacement. At that time, the New Air will go to the trash.A design feature I don't like is the thermostat control knob is inconveniently located on the heater's rear making it impossible to see and difficult to reach.