Help with Unidare storage heater

[Maymay]

I have a house with these storage heaters and I have no idea how best to use them?

They are the Softline version which come with only an input and output option and no timing for when they should come on! After finding a manual it seems they should be always on input all day? And then the output will automatically come on at the right time and then stop until it comes on again the next day!

Is this correct? I am not too sure as I tried this and my electric went through the roof and doesn’t seem very economical to me hut on the other hand using them randomly when it gets colder also uses a ton of electric so I am unsure of which option is best and if the one in the manual actually works properly!

Any guidance or advice on this? They are due to work inline when the electric is at a lower cost overnight but I can’t see how they do that without a timer?

Should I be leaving the input on all the time and then adjust the output when I want heat? It is baffling me because when I turn the heater on it for just input is uses so much electric

Thanks

 

[Avo Mk8]

I have a house with these storage heaters and I have no idea how best to use them?

They are the Softline version which come with only an input and output option and no timing for when they should come on! After finding a manual it seems they should be always on input all day? And then the output will automatically come on at the right time and then stop until it comes on again the next day!

Is this correct? I am not too sure as I tried this and my electric went through the roof and doesn’t seem very economical to me hut on the other hand using them randomly when it gets colder also uses a ton of electric so I am unsure of which option is best and if the one in the manual actually works properly!

Any guidance or advice on this? They are due to work inline when the electric is at a lower cost overnight but I can’t see how they do that without a timer?

Should I be leaving the input on all the time and then adjust the output when I want heat? It is baffling me because when I turn the heater on it for just input is uses so much electric

Thanks

This old thread has a short video which seems to reinforce your description (see post #2) but doesn't help much.

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Are you definitely on Economy 7?
Do you know if the whole house gets metered at cheap rate overnight, or do you have a separate off-peak supply that gets switched on? If you don't know it would be worth finding out.
Unless the storage heaters are on cheap rate they will cost an absolute fortune! Even on "cheap-rate" they are not cheap.

It might be that your heaters are designed to be connected to an off-peak supply only (ie a supply switched by the meter or a timer attached to it, which is how it used to be done), but now are connected to power 24/7 because the meter or wiring has been changed. A picture of your meter and consumer unit(s) might help us.