Review · Fan-forced
A heater whose maker publishes a warranty length and a safety list but not a wattage — which is an unusual set of priorities, and mostly a good one.
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The Vornado VH200 is a 1,500 W fan-forced heater that circulates a room's whole air volume rather than blowing heat in one direction. It has three heat settings, a thermostatic knob, a tip-over switch, an automatic safety shut-off, a cool-touch case and a 5-year limited warranty.
Vornado's design pushes air in a way intended to set up a circulation pattern in the room rather than to project a hot stream at whatever is in front of it. The claim is about uniformity, not output — it is still 1,500 W and it still cannot exceed what a plug-in heater delivers.
That distinction matters for who should buy it. If your complaint is “the room never gets warm”, this changes nothing: check the sizing, because the room is probably bigger than 1,500 W. If your complaint is “one end of the room is warm and the other is cold”, uniform circulation is the thing that addresses it.
Top pick · Even heat, not a hot spot
Circulates the room's air instead of aiming a hot jet at your shins — the difference you feel is uniformity, not output, because the output is the same 1,500 W as everything else.
| Published specification | |
|---|---|
| Rated power | 1,500 W at 120 V (retail listings; Vornado publishes settings, not watts) |
| Heat settings | 3 |
| Thermostat | Thermostatic control knob |
| Safety | Tip-over switch, automatic safety shut-off, cool-touch case |
| Warranty | 5-year limited |
| Heat type | Fan-forced |
| Maker’s coverage claim | None published — the coverage figure above is ours |
| Safety listing | Vornado's product page publishes an “Automatic Safety Shut-off System” and a tip-over switch but does not name a listing mark; check the rating plate. |
Who it is for
A bedroom or living room where the complaint is “one end is warm and the other isn't”, rather than “it never gets warm”.
What it is not for
Silent operation, and not a garage. A moving-air heater in an uninsulated space is heating the outdoors with extra steps.
Sources for this entry
Vornado's product page publishes three heat settings, a thermostatic control knob, the safety features and the warranty — and does not publish wattage, coverage, dimensions, weight, amp draw or a listing mark. Retail listings, including Home Depot's, carry the unit as 1,500 W, and that is the figure the computed numbers above use.
We are flagging the provenance rather than smoothing it over: the wattage here comes from retail listings, not from Vornado. It is almost certainly right — 1,500 W is the plug-in ceiling and there is nowhere else for a full-size heater to be — but it is a retailer's specification and this site distinguishes between the two.
| Wattage | Per hour | 1 h | 4 h | 8 h |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1,500 W | 27.5¢ | $0.28 | $1.10 | $2.20 |
Computed at 18.34¢/kWh — the U.S. residential average for June 2026 (EIA, Electric Power Monthly, Table 5.6.A, released August 26, 2026). Your rate is on your own bill; substitute it and the arithmetic still holds. Figures assume full output for the whole period.
A five-year limited warranty on a heater at this price is unusual, and it is the closest thing to a durability signal available to a publisher who does not run products for five years. It is not evidence that the unit lasts; it is evidence that the manufacturer has priced in the possibility that it does, which is a different and weaker claim but not a worthless one.
Not silence — it is a fan, and moving air is the entire design. Not a garage or basement, where convected heat is the wrong mechanism. And not someone who wants to set a temperature by number: a thermostatic knob without markings gets you a position, not a setpoint, which costs money in overshoot over a season.
Retail listings carry it as 1,500 W. Vornado's own product page publishes heat settings, safety features and warranty but does not state a wattage, so that figure comes from retailers rather than the manufacturer.
It publishes a tip-over switch, an automatic safety shut-off and a cool-touch case. The U.S. Fire Administration's guidance is still to turn any space heater off when you leave the room or go to bed, and this model has no timer to do that for you.
Vornado publishes no coverage figure. At 1,500 W and the standard 10 W per square foot, that is about 150 sq ft in an average room.
No decibel figure is published, and it is a fan-forced circulator, so air movement is audible by design. If silence is the requirement, a fanless oil-filled or micathermic heater is the type to look at.
Tip-over, overheat, child lock, cool-touch, wall mounting — what each mechanism actually prevents.
For rooms under 150 sq ft, where 1,500 W is oversized and the thermostat is what actually matters.
Heating the air versus heating the things in it — the distinction under every other comparison.
Tip-over, overheat, cool-touch and child lock — four mechanisms, four different failures prevented.
1,500 W, silent, a 24-hour timer and sealed diathermic oil — the bedroom answer, with real caveats.
Room dimensions in, wattage and BTU out — with both corrections applied and the formula visible.