What I did is buy the same one at Wal-Mart then returned the bad one and kept the new one and got my money back. That would be the simplest way I think 🤔
I have the same stupid heater acting up. I was able to fix it by following your video. I had a slightly hard time following your wires with the camera moving the way it was. If you do any more video's with wiring i would suggest a drawn diagram of the wires. Thanks for the fix!
I honestly wouldn't bypass a safety feature like that knowing that it broke because the kids kept knocking it over. You're just asking for your house to be burned down. If I didn't have mischievous kids, I'd just hard wire the heater like you did but use an external thermostat. There's no reason to cook a room to ridiculous temperatures, and the cycling will keep the cord and plug from overheating. In your case, I would go online and replace the thermostat/safety switch. You might have to drill out the rivets, and either install the new switch with a rivet gun or bolt it in. Your other option would be to get another heater, and use the old heater somewhere else. They're inexpensive. A new heater is a lot cheaper than a house. Also, just drill it into your kids to respect things like heaters. It will save them a lot of pain in the future.
Thank You ... no; no. That's not good enough. I'll start over. A MONSTEROUS BIG THANK YOU, Homestead! Tonight, I will not lie shivering but will rest soundly and comfortably in my bus conversion because my space heater is fixed & working again. Your DIY space heater fix video was spot on! Following your lead, I had my heater (that has worked in 2 to 6 sec intervals followed by 20mins of nothing for months now) running again in less than 30mins AND at $0 expense! I am appreciative, have subscribed & clicked thumbs up!
That’s awesome! We’re so glad we could help out! Thank you for the wonderful comment and Sub. I enjoy doing these videos in my free time and knowing I’m helping others is a plus. Stay safe and stay warm!
thank you for this , after I open mine I decided to test the thermofuse in first instance and ........ indeed has been blown..... if I may suggest you guys before going Tacito´s path to check your thermal fuse . Thanks brother!
Criminy just buy a new bi metal thermostatic switch! I've bought a couple and fixed my old heaters. By passing the thermostat is just asking for something near it to catch fire.
I just bought 2 new space heaters with issues with the thermostat. When it gets to thermostat adjusted temp, it will turn off but never turns back on when the ambient temp gets cooler again.
By the time you find the appropriate switch & anti tip switch you are better off buying a new heater. I would use this method for a temporary fix but not in the budget to buy a new space heater.....
Haven't even watched yet. But I got a bunch of returned heaters and every single one was either the switch or the thermostat. Bypass that and every one of them worked..still have most of them.
Hello I need your help. I have the same space heater. I knock over the heater and this silver cylinder piece fell in the inside. The cylinder has a plastic like mouth between them. I was wondering if you could do a video showing the different parts of the space heater
I got confused on the wiring but I got it .. My switch to put on high medium low was bad so I removed all the wires from it and I connected all the white wires together and the black wires together which was two wires i didnt mess with the thermostat two black wires thats connected to it and the heat came back on .I tape them up and i was good to go its even hotter then at 1st im assuming is your thermostat is messed up you would connect those two wires together so you would have 2 sets of black wires connected 2 each and 3 white wires all connected and it should work for u
How do I fix my space heater it turns on and works but the knobs keep turning and not clicking and I un screwed the only screw on the back and nothing came in done
I have a space heater that when you plug it up and turn on it will run and heat. Then after a few minutes it will turn off and want come back on until it sets for a long while. My guess it's the thermostat. Do you agree and if so how do I bypass it?
I think some people are just bypassing the thermostat and safety. I am going over to the garage right now and will cut the two black wire off the thermostat and wire them together and see what happens.
I have the same heater, and putting a ball of aluminum foil in between the the "safety prong" fixed mine instantly. They are designed poorly. Too much plastic where there should be metal.
@@drizzzumbrizz6308 tried the same thing. It worked for a few minutes then popped and stopped working. I checked the foil and it was red hot and burnt to a crisp. No doubt it works but have you had any problems similar?
Hey if anyone has this heater and they take it a part and notice that the safety switch is still all together but not working…. Take the underside tab of it and bend it to connect with the middle metal tab part in the safety switch. It uses metal tabs on each side and a weight to determine connectivity. It may take 2-3 tries to get it perfect
@@jameshunt5316 thanks I'm not that stupid but I just by passed the thermostat and level switch cuz they were one unit and it works....easy fix. Just have to plug and unplug it now.
I did mine like this but I only bypassed the thermostat and not the speed. It works fine. I can cut it off and on or heat or just fan... I use it daily...
My Comfort Zone, which looks very much like yours, I just repaired after jumping around the safeties on the tilt switch and found that ok. Jumped the thermostat and I HAVE heat now. Looked at thermostat and realized that the contacts looked like points on older car's distributors. I next filed the contacts with a fingernail clipper file . Working great, unit is 5 years old
I'm in San Antonio, Texas. Weather app says 35°F feels like 26°F. My heater just went out, an since this being Texas a state where 'most' Texans prefer Summer Over Winter weather. Stores are lacking space heaters right now. So this video is coming very handy for me right about now. I explain all of this 1.) For people in upper statea q+s who are use to cold weather. 2.)are going to criticize this video because of the potential saftey hazard of bypassing the the thermostat an cut-off sensor. 3.) Plainly to thank people like this guy for making little everyday life situations more (relaxing/easier) & more knowledgeable.. SO I THANK YOU FOR THIS VIDEO. [("P.S. Nice Guns By The way man..Ha)].
Glad I could help. I never thought I would help so many people out with this video, but I'm glad that I did. Your right...some people dislike this video bc I bypassed everything but, Like you We had to have heat. Our main source of heat for the house is floor heaters and a fireplace. So when one goes out the fix has to be immediate. The Temps here are in the 20's & 40's and we're still using 2 heaters that I fixed when this video was posted. You stay warm my friend- Taco
OG you can’t do that, maybe you should not make a video about this subject because you just don’t know as much. I don’t know much about Forced Air Space Heaters, and that’s what Im on this page, but my friend ur broadcasting how to bypass some very important safety features
Thanks for your input. I did what I had to do to make the heater work . The parts on the heater melted before I wired it up so really the heater was defective before I bypassed everything. As a matter of fact every one of these heaters shorted out and melted the thermostat including all safety features without me touching it. I haven’t had any issues with them after I bypassed everything. I agree not the safest measure but we have heat.
Well, we all know it's not safe. We all know that this fix involves bypassing a safety feature. We are here because we want to do that. It is in fact sometimes useful to know how to bypass safety features, and not inherently irresponsible to simply make a video about doing that.
My ding dang brother from a different mother! I subscribed my man, and know where I'll turn for fixin' things they way, even I can understand! Great job man. I'll be checking out more of your (work) videos. God bless you brother.
Much appreciated. I bypassed the thermostat,, and simply wired the 2 blacks together, and off, fan, lo, and hi are still selectable. We use one of these overnight in our basement to keep our cat warm. Since there is no safety anymore we will not be using this particular one for that, but at least we will have it for the winter when we are able to keep an eye on it. Thanks for saving us the 20 bucks on getting a new one!
Bypassing the thermostat worked for me, too, and the off, fan, lo, hi controls still work. Just a warning, if you have children or pets, the anti-tip shut off will not work by bypassing the thermostat. These are $18 at Menards, on sale this week for $12.
I was gonna throw my hero away. I have the same exact model.as 4 years later. Your video helped me. I'll have my job. Fix my heater in under ten minutes
Thanks man! I know it’s been a year since you uploaded but you help save me a good few bucks. Had two of these exact heaters and my first one went out last year and my other one just went out today. Came across your video and it work wonders! Although you don’t need to connect the white wires if the top switch isn’t broken for sure. Both heaters stopped cause that stupid heat sensor so you really just need to do the black wires on the bottom
Thanks brother Taco i got a honeywell red box that i took apart to clean and fix a wobbling fan making noise, after 2 hours of work it ran great for 10 mins then the thermostat got moved by accident from full blast and it all shut down. I let it cool for 30 mins outside, tried to plug it and that pos wont budge even ice cold. Now i'm gonna tear it down again and bypass all that shit just like you did.
I hope it works out brother. It’s a good fix for when you need heat now. We continue to use ours and it’s year 3. We keep an eye on it in case it somehow gets knocked over but it’s chugging along nicely.
@@tacitohomestead4851 update; i bypassed the bs themostat and the thermal sensor, for sure one or both were dead, i had a very noisy grumbling fan, i noticed when you held the unit inverted it was almost quiet so i took it apart again ( 4x in 24hrs lol ) and loosened the motor's two bolts and flipped the motor upside down. it's now on a test bench running wide open for a few hours to make sure nothing melts. For now i'll leave the "two step" switch so i can still run it at half power if it gets too hot. i use mine in emergencies with a firman generator so i like to make sure everything is old school fail safe. Thanks again brother Taco stay safe & God bless.
I didn’t buy a thermal fuse I simply bypassed everything so we could have heat. I would suggest making a base for this heater because the tip overs is what caused it to malfunction. We would run the heater while we were home and if we left turn it off.
My SAI heater Off, fan, low, high switch went bad, bypassed it like you did, works on HIGH again lol. I use the temp switch to cut it on and off now. HIGH is all I ever used anyway. Thanks,
Good information in a pinch but time to throw it away as soon as you can replace it. Saving $20 isn't worth the house fire. Wanting to go years on a heater like that is just stupid, especially when you have kids knocking them over. Now if you were mounting this to something solid, it wouldn't be so bad without the protections you removed assuming the thermal fuse is still in place. I personally use one of these in my garage and the tip over protection being absent is a requirement. But since I'm in the middle of a storm where I need it and it broke it's been bypassed, when it can be replaced it's getting dismantled and trashed.
@@jeffkili8918 yep, true to my word I had modified my heater during the Texas snowmagedon (6 days of normal winter if you're not from a pansy state), I immediately bought another heater, snipped every wire in the modified heater and put it out in the trash. For someone to try to use it would take an incredible amount of negligence and it sitting in the trash right after our little mishap would make a tempting treat for a trash picker.
Here for old heater's alarm going off early. Current heated goes off and on every few seconds - both annoying as f***! So what was wrong - I did not come here for an obvious wiring.
Much appreciated I tried one almost had it but the coils that heat up busted, but sis the same thing with a floor ceramic heater and worka like a charm may Yaweah bring honora and blessings to you and yours.
I have a Hyper Tough one and it isn't working.. I can put it on any setting and the light won't light up or the heater won't blow.. and it's starting to get cold
Okay. Homesteaders THANK YOU SO VERY DANG MUCH!!!! I didn't have to bypass my therm. But I did connect it again with another piece of metal. But when that gives. I KNOW EXACTLY WHAT TO TO. Even though my heater is exactly like you accept 2 knows. I know EXACTLY WHAT TO TO. YOU'VE Been a LIFE SAVOR TONIGHT, Not even google or the brand name website was helpful. YOUR RU-vid channel!!!!!❤❤❤. it being this cold in Oklahoma tonight. THANK YOU AND GOD BLESS YOU AND YOURS.
I have the same heater, it stopped working from the sensor so i broke it off and for the most part runs but sometimes shuts off. Was hoping to find a permanent fix in your video. :) just wish you had your phone on a tripod
I took out the thermostat and merited the black wires together. It works again but now the wire is overheating when pluged in. Anyone's know why?? Dont want to burn my house down lol
Thank you so much! My heater is almost the same. Exact function and wiring, but white with a different fan. Something happened with that rotary switch where one day I trusted the switch to OFF and it kept going. When I came back to use it, the switch wouldn't turn at all. I suspected the wiring was, like you said, a simple positive and negative. But the thermostat always worked. So what I did instead was I removed the switch and drilled a hole for a simple on/off toggle switch. For safety I got a 20A 125V AC toggle switch with that round metal lever that flips up and down. Then I cut off the 3 leads on that rotary switch that went to the heater and the fan. (The fourth lead is the hot input for the switch so it wasn't necessary to transfer since we were replacing the switch). I tied all of those wires in the rotary switch together to one of the new toggle switch leads. I tried the hot wire from the plug into the other toggle switch lead. Now I can flip it on or off, and I can still use the thermostat to control the fan speed.
Wow, thanks for the help. I Just follow the guide. And had broken one fix now. But we plan just to open it when all are awake. Turn it off when sleeping. So we are not worried of might happen while sleeping. Issue is just on/off switch not working and thermostat and plug in/out to off/on. thumbs to you. 👍👍
I use my air compressor with a spray nozzle. Empty all the air and moisture out and your good to go. You could buy the spray cleaner at Walmart but from what I can remember it’s was pricey.
Thank you sir. I was about to throw away two heaters until I saw your video. Now I have two working heaters with still off and on working switch🙂🙂🙂🙂😊😊😇. Thank you.🙂
A very well executed video, as I found one in the trash on my walk tonight. Plugged it in and it started to smoke after about 30 seconds.Could it be the filter is not clean? Any idea's appreciated before I open it up. Thank you for the straight forward and easy to understand tutorial.
I would blow it out with a compressor and spray nozzle. If it’s still smoking I would take it apart maybe some wires are burning. Also if the fan isn’t blowing the elements will overheat and smoke
Public Service Announcement: we are homesteaders here, nothing in this video should be taken as legal or financial advice. lol. Seriously Taco, I just ran across this vid of y’all’s..! Don’t know how I missed it before, but perfect timing I was about to throw out a barn fan that quit working. And now I’m just gonna run in and fix it. Hope y’all are doing awesome my friend!!
I'm glad I could help. I may not be very technical savvy, but I can redneck something in a heartbeat. I didn't have anything to do that day so I figured I would tackle a broken heater just for fun. I never thought it would get so many views or comments. Some good.....Some bad lol. Sometimes you just don't have all the parts or are able to get them you just do what you can. Thanks for comment It's good to hear from you. Taco
I live in Canada. I have the same one but made from Konwin. The thermostat keeps clicking on and off. Only k ocked over once. It's the lower switch that's messing up on me. I can't find any parts anywhere. Watching your video now
