lyric030250

Does anybody here use these things, particularly on the CDS. I have questions !

fionamw

No - apart from the electricity bills, I wish we did! Await other replies more helpful, with interest!

Dxf

Hi

I have a friend who has storage radiators as he has a "white meter" with half price electric.

Why not ask the question you need answered? Someone may be able to help

Davexf

lyric030250

That sounds like he is in the UK, I want to know how they work in Spain, not physically as I understand the mechanism, but in the UK they are wired to the white meter, no plugs and then store on the reduced rate electricity.
In Spain the reduced rate applies to the whole installation as I understand it so they would need some form of timer to store at the reduced rate, now I seem to think that the storage current of a realistic device will be beyond the rating of a simple domestic timer, and I wonder how people, if any, have them working.
I know they are available here so they must be in use.

Dxf

Hi

No he is in Spain, will ask at a more civilised hour tomorrow

Davexf

Fred James

If the units are wired on a separate circuit a timer can easily be fitted in the main fuse box.

I have such a device and it happily copes with the underfloor heating load.

Yes, the "night meter" works across the entire electricity supply.

lyric030250

OK understood, however cumbersome it might seem I just want to get some units and plug them in, I don't want the expense/disturbance of a separate circuit particularly as the route from the distribution box to the rooms in question would be circuitous.
The rooms in question are the bedrooms, which are downstairs and on the North side, so no solar effect at all.
I know I could use fancy electric radiators but really heat is needed outside low tariff hours.
I just thought of storage when the question was asked on another forum with the same overwhelming response.

Fred James

I don't think you will have a problem with normal domestic time switches.

I just checked the ones I use on the water heaters and they are rated at 3.5kw.

The largest storage heaters are rated at 3.4kw so it should be fine - the timers are about €10 or less.

lyric030250

Thanks Fred, I haven't checked anything yet except availability.
This is a project for next winter. It is astonishingly cold downstairs in one of the bedrooms it rarely gets above 12 degrees without assistance. Now a joke is a joke but .......

I wish we had thought about underfloor when we were doing the reform last winter !

Of course all this cold downstairs is perfect in August.

fionamw

I have to admit it slightly annoys me that those of us who admit our mistakes, acknowledge that we could have done things better or differently and would like to find a way to deal with the perishing variations of temperature in these'ere parts are somehow regarded as worthy of a pixellated earbashing
We're just accepting we got it wrong and want to put it right, is all!