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Thanks for this clarification. I have been confused as to why the cylinder would heat up then, as soon as any hot water is used, allow cold water to enter and mix with the hot water thus immediately cooling it down and making the previous heating up pointless. This seemed a ridiculous way of a...

Thanks for all the help. Everything is working as it should now. The immersion is coming on at night and when I have surplus solar power. This usually means the water is hot and the boiler doesn’t need to come on or, if it does, it’s only for a short while to give the water temp a boost. I am...

Not quite. I get a full tank of hot water by either immersion or gas boiler. But what seems strange is that even after heating the tank by immersion, the gas boiler would still come on via timer and heat the water. However, from following above advice it seems to have worked. After adjusting...

One of the other posts above suggested checking the immersion stat (which seems sensible) so I have done and can't be sure of what temp is set to as it doesn't have any temperature scale/numbers on it. However, as it seems to be set to the maximum then I take your point about minimising the...

Thankyou. I did this and it worked as it seemingly should do. I turned the dial up to maximum and the boiler immediately fired up and then when I turned it back down to 50 it turned off. So that seems to be working fine. I’m now trying to adjust the immersion thermostat but struggling to see how...

Thanks danfre. I have removed the cap and I can’t see a temperature dial. There is one red thing which looks adjustable but doesn’t have any indications of temperature units on it?

OK. It's an Ideal Logic Heat H24. To run this test should i have the hot water timer set so that it should be calling for water or timer off?

Super helpful Johntheo5. Thankyou. Please can i just clarify the last sentence and what i need to do and what i am looking for when i do it please?

Many thabks for the input. Much appreciated. The clarification about the tap symbol is very helpful. I had misunderstood that to mean that the water was actually being heated. But it seems to just indicate that the timer period for hot water is still active. Even though the boiler is off. So...

Thanks again for all the replies. It is greatly appreciated. I have followed the advice and done some more experimenting this morning but got the same result again. To clarify, I ran the immersion overnight to heat the tank up and that worked fine. Then, just to be sure that the water was up to...

Hi all. Thanks so much for the replies. I have turned the dial at the bottom down to 50 degrees as suggested and I also attach photos of the cylinder. Any further guidance is hugely appreciated

Hi. I would be very grateful for any help please. I have a hot water cylinder that is heated primarily by a gas boiler. I also have an immersion heater in the cylinder attached to a timer. I have solar panels and a 10kwh storage battery and so usually have a lot of surplus and/or saved...