I bought this heater to heat a medium sized childrens' room. It does a good job. It's fairly lightweight compared to older style oil heaters and consequently does not have as much thermal mass. It is therefore fairly quick to heat up but also loses heat quickly, so I find you have to run the thermostat hotter to maintain the same room temperature as our 20+ year old Dimplex. However, given that 2400w is 2400w no matter how much oil is in the heater it costs the same. The timer works ok and is quiet. The heater is silent, with no creaking noises when heating up or cooling down.
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The only problem I have is that the switch to turn between manual operation and timer operation is a very small and hard to operate. The heater fins get a little hot when operating, but we've had no issues with children touching. It's fairly cheap compared to some of the more prominent 2400w name brand heaters, but from our perspective works equally as well with good quality look and feel.
For quite a while I was number one in google for 'kambrook timer'. At the moment I'm number three. This should push up to number one again. I have three automatic timers for my fish tanks. Two of them are kambrook timers.
The third is a dodgy-brothers noname version from Go Lo. Funnily enough it's the go lo one that works properly. One of my kambrook timers simply won't turn on for a morning session. The other has been losing time and is now an hour behind. Silly really.
UPDATE: I've just deleted 27 comments saying 'please send me the manual' - as there are now links to various manuals. This page has been indexed as a place to come for people looking for manuals, mostly for KET99, KD86, KD36 timers. Please read the links below before asking for a manual to be sent to you. This is a personal blog, I have no interest in Kambrook (as in my experience their products tend to be inferior to cheaper brands). Bexx said: See the post 4 above this one (from Rex Callahan - use and search for the text on the page if you have to) for the KD86 instructions and the one 4 down from the top (from Natalee) for the KD36; the PDF manual for the KET99 is still available at the link posted above by 'David on April 15, 2007' - PLEASE read ALL of the posts above before making any more posts asking for 'manuals'.
For everybody's information, the batteries needed for the LR36 are standard alkaline hearing aid batteries, designated LR44, A76, RW82, AG13, 303, 357, LR1154 - google for any of those codes and I'm sure you'll find plenty of internet suppliers and maybe local ones as well - there are loads on eBay too. As stated in the KET99 manual (pdf link above), this model needs (slightly smaller) L1131, aka LR54, SR54, SR1130W, 389, LR1130, SBBU, AG10.