Just moved into flat and hot tank is hot all the time, I don't have any control over the immersion heaters. The "restricted" E7 unit seems to be working OK but the "un restricted" unit just never switches off? We have two switches in kitchen and I have had them switched off now for 48hrs but...
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I'm looking at a Horstmann Economy 7 timeswitch which appears to need replacing.
However the timer (24 section is still turning) and the boost timer winds itself down properly, so the timer parts of...
hi .customer complained that her off peak water wasn't heating.its a ex b7 controler .boost worked fine on 24 supply.there is just 1 cable going to tank [1 elememnt] but off peak trips old wylex 15a push button mcb
sorry dont no the bs number.changed the b7 controller because it was 25 years old...
Hi all,
i thought id join your forum to get some advice...
i run run an exterior cleaning company and we carry large amounts of water on our vans, during the depths of winter we heat the water with immersion heaters so far this has not been a problem as I've use 16 amp sockets etc..
we we...
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putting a little information back into the forum here, hope it helps someone.
We have a cottage we rent out that has a 200 litre vertical pressurised tank with a 2.4Kw 3 phase ceramic wire wound element (this is in France btw). 20 years old and still amazing on the heating and heat...
Hi everyone,
just after some advice.
I've wired a new s plan system which has gone fine.
plumber has installed a pressurised tank in loft and I have wired the immersion to the customers off peak supply. The isolator for the immersion is in the Airing cupboard along with wiring centre and...
I had a 4kw system fitted nearly 2 years ago with a Solic 200 to divert excess energy produced to emmersion heater in hot water tank and all was working great until a week or so ago.
First of all PV solar all working OK, and every morning when inverter starts for first time Solic kicks in and...
Hi all, good afternoon.
New on here, so here goes!
Quick question and some advice really!
I have a 12KW three phase immersion heater installed into a hot water cylinder (for commercial premises).
The immersion heater enables and disables via an on site building management system so therefore...
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My client is having problems with her peak and off peak immersion. She claims she isn't getting enough hot water. I turned both thermostats up but she is still having the same problem. They are new elements but I tested them anyway and they are working fine. I'm wondering if the...
A relative has asked me to install an electric shower. He suggested i use an old electrical point that used to be used for an immersion heater, but has now been plated off with a blank plate and the live and neutral wire inside have been taped off with red insulation tape.
I used my fluke clamp...
I live in a park home, it has off peak storage heaters and off peak bottom element on the hot water tank. If I just have the three heaters on[elnur 2x1.7 and one 900w combination with convector] it normally works fine although it has tripped once. But if all are on plus the immersion the main...
Hi everyone, need your expertise on hot water tank set up,
theres a large hw tank with dual 2.7kw elements with stats
controller isn't working as micro switch is broken, but house has new ish economy board supplying about 7
night storage heaters but spark-plumber has installed hw tank on...
Thinking of adding an Solar iBoost to my home system but also changing the immersion heater as its been in for about 14 years and no doubt heavily covered in limescale, not even sure it has a thermostat on it.
I noticed that Backer do specific low wattage immersion heaters for Solar. Is it...
hi everyone, im new here,and looking for some advice on immersion.
My boiler packed up 2 weeks ago, and having problems trying to fix, sort, research a new one.
In the meantime I thought i could use the immersion for hot water.
It appears i dont have one.
I have a normal non condensing, none...
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I'd just like a quick bit of advice, we have two fused switches in our airing cupboard for the hot water cylinder, one main switch which comes on during the off-peak of our economy 7. The other which is for the immersion. We've stopped getting any hot water from the main off-peak part of...
I have a customer with a 6kW immersion heater and we are trying to find a device which will cope with this size. All the ones I've seen so far are rated at 13A maximum. Anyone know of a device which could do 6kW?
I need advice in regards to connections to an electric boiler with two immersion heaters. At present, there is an on peak switch connected to one immersion and off peak switch connected to the second immersion. The first immersion is not working anymore. I want to connect the working immersion...
Hi all and thanks in advance for any help.
I live in a all electric flat and we have a hortsman econmy 7 quartz hot water system, recently the off peak immersion went and we have been stuck using the boost for a few days as and when we need hot water. we are in the middle of trying to contact...
I went to a job that the owner felt was a bodged job. It was basically a radial circuit wired at the start in 4.0mm T&E, and then it goes to a few sockets that is supplying a washing machine and tumble drier. From there it goes upstairs to the airing cupboard where it feeds a single switched...
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