Help with electric heater please...(!)

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- Dave
  
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20 years ago

Wed, Oct 22, 2003 6:38 PM

Hi, my flat has two electric heaters mounted on the walls.

Their make is 'heatovent', and someone once told me they're 'electric storage heaters', but i'm not sure if that's right. They're wired up to the 'off-peak' electrical box and have only 2 controls, a CHARGE wheel and a DAMPER wheel, both with a number from 1-6. I can't find any documentation on how they work, and right now have just fiddled with both wheels; they seem to start getting hot at about midnight, and if i switch them off at the wall in the morning, they'll carry on giving out heat for most of the rest of the day. Does anyone have any advice on how to set them up? It'd be great to have them charge up at night when electricity is cheap and start emitting heat at like 5am, very slowly for the whole day (it gets pretty darn cold here in Scotland).

Does anyone have any experience with these units?

Cheers

Dave.

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20 years ago

Wed, Oct 22, 2003 7:04 PM

Sounds like more Socialist Brit crap to me, where they don't want you to even know what's going on, or what settings are what.

BTW, this from a 1/2 Scot. I've always wanted to visit there some day, but I'm sensbile enough to not live there :-)

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- profft
  
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20 years ago

Wed, Oct 22, 2003 10:32 PM

What about a neighbor, surely your not the only one in your town that has one.

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- Brian Whatcott
  
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20 years ago

Thu, Oct 23, 2003 12:12 AM

Scottish Nationalist rants aside (which remind me of the Partie Quebequois, come to think of it....) we are presumably talking about an electric heater with a thermostat set in a concrete block. Comes on at load leveling hours - and heats in the night til the thermostat shuts it off. Cools at a rate set by a damper vane (i.e. a ventilation control) to regulate the output. Want it hotter? Turn up the charge, and turn up the damper output, until the room cools too much late in the day, which indicates a slower rate of release is needed.

Brian W.