Quote Originally Posted by Deborah View Post
You can find oil filled heater for less than $50 the most important is to have it plugged into a external t-stat such as ranco.

I have used this one for years now http://www.target.com/p/Holmes-Oil-F...gpa=pla&ci_kw= and I am very happy with it.
I recently switched to this one (with Ranco) and love it!

Quote Originally Posted by twistedtails View Post
I have a Delongi digital oil heater. I like it, but, to be honest you won't necessarliy save electricity. Some of those oil heaters are 1500 watts that means you will be pulling about 12.5 amps. That is very close to the max of an average 15 watt circuit in houses. I used one and it put me over baseline in the winter at my house on the electric bill(I was paying $250 a month in the winter). Long story short, I switched over to using a Heat Pump A/C unit I installed in my snake room. Yeah the unit costs more initially but it only pulls 4 amps and heats and cools my snake room a lot more efficiently. Good luck on your choice.
The one Deborah posted above actually has a 900w setting that I've been using, which has currently eliminated the cricuit breaker flipping I was getting to do when running a hair dryer in my snake room. I can't speak to whether my power bill has gone down, though - winter has been too warm in GA for a fair comparison.