I bought this one to replace a model that had a different name on it but was suspiciously identical in looks as this one. The last one I had worked 2 months. (We cook a lot of rice in our house, at least 4 times a week.) This most recent one I got that had the name "Elite" on it lasted about 3 months. One day they work fine, the next no light turns on, and it doesn't heat up anymore. How dumb I feel for buying the second one. But I figured it was cheap and surely the first one was just a fluke... Still, you don't expect a rice cooker to be disposable!! No matter how cheap, it's not worth the trouble to have to go out and buy a new one every 2 or 3 months. Ridiculous!!