That is a PE Vista. I had one installed 3 weeks ago. I live in Canada and have been using it steadily with well-aged oak and maple (9-10% moisture), and following installer given fire-burning guidelines (though I'm not a newby with fires or inserts), and with an outside temperature of as warm as 0 degrees C, this insert cannot even heat the 200 square foot living room it is in to above 22 C (70 F). The fire starts easily and burns readily, but with fan on an a good burn for hours it just doesn't put enough heat out into the room...my room thermometer is but 12 feet away from the insert, and the highest it has gone is 69 F! (I had hoped and expected to be blown out of the room by wood heat). Last week when it was -10 C out (12 F) the living room did not warm up above 66 degrees! Forget about heating anything more than a small cubicle with this insert. DO NOT expect to heat a house with this unit let alone just your living room. Also, the firebox is smaller than you might expect - go and see one before buying - and the glass window is ridiculously small, smallest out there I think.
Overall, a fire burns well in this box, but in terms of heat delivery it is a very disappointing unit indeed. Also, the combustion air control lever design is flawed: when you slide the lever to the right to get a slow burn the lever hits the fan motor housing inside the fan box before it gets to its full slow burn position; this prevents the fullest closing of the combustion air passage, so - at least on mine - I can't get to that ultra-slow liquid-flame burn position. I have been directed by the company to "put some metal tape over the hole"...Really??? Unfortunately it is the only insert that would fit into my small existing masonry fireplace but I would NOT recommend it except to heat a very small space. Ergo my moniker "BurnedUpGood".
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