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the fused spur has an LED on it so i know the times.
Quantum storage heaters lose hardly any heat as it’s a fan that lets the heat out not a crude letterbox flap connected to a manual dial like the old fashioned ones, plus it’s controlled by a computer/thermostat and programmable with an ‘out all day’ setting.
I had old ones before and to get 22° on a winters evening it would be boiling hot in the morning even with the vent closed and then run out of heat late evening.don’t think you can even get the dumb heaters any more as they don’t pass regs and will not get you a C rated EPC.
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Ah in that case, yeah sounds good. Always wondered why no one had made a storage heater for this century, apparently they have I just didn't spot them.
We bought some Rointe/ecoheater things from a UK seller, so overpriced for what is a bit of cast alloy and some very basic electronics. The Rointe's are quiet, the other ones click and clunk as they heat up and down, which is basically constant during the hours of use, no good if your a light sleeper. Both brands we've had screen failures within a year, and apparently they fail constantly, warranty only covers them for 2 years, beyond that you have to keep buying them.
So setting up a macro on 'Tuya Smart Life' app, which is a pretty handy free android app, will run on just about anything, can stick a cheap android tablet on the wall and control everything through it from the building, or remotely via your wifi to each and every unit in your system, or setup some programmable blank switchs in your house, and just put a label on 'boost', set to 20c, set to off, hot water only etc. We've got a dehumidifier puking into a bucket and the immersion heater on it as well so can see whats going on at any one time, total overkill, but the inner geek wants to know if I accidentally left the hot water on 'boost' for a week at a time in an unused house, extra especially when your electric bill is £10 a day+
BrickMan
Check with your energy provider what times the off peak power comes and goes. We've found (can hear the old radio 4 box clunking away day and night) that there are several heating periods, quite a few during day to top up those storage heaters. Would say storage type electric heaters only really relavent if your older (wake up at 5am) and stay home a lot, if your up late and then not home very much, the amount you save off peak/on peak costs is wiped out by heating an empty home.
We ended up just going direct regular electric panel heaters (have a concrete or oil core) as we are the latter category.