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I would appreciate any advice on wiring a plug to a heater.
I recently moved to a new apartment and removed a storage heater and an oil heater that were wired into the wall rather than plugged in. Both had three wires intersecting with three wires from the wall that I guess were related to the economy 7 set up.
I’m not on an economy 7 and didn’t want the big heaters taking up space along the wall so I removed them and left the wall wires connected to the intersecting plates (as you can see the prior disconnection pic in the oil heater photo) then decorated over the wall space with no issues.
Now that it is getting quite cold, I want to use the oil heater for a few months but don’t want to have it screwed to the wall and permanently wired back up.
So my two questions are:
1. question is: can I just wire wall plug onto the three wires that come out of the wall heater that you can see in the picture and use it as a plug-in heater?
2. At the moment I’ve been using the kitchen heater as it’s a galley kitchen with an open doorway to the living room, but that heater has some kind of element in it as you can see in the picture and is very expensive to run for long durations.
So, my other question is: Will running the big oil heater be cheaper than the kitchen element heater? Or if it’s the same kilowatt per hour usage. And Question 2.1: Even if the oil heater will cost the same as the kitchen element heater, will it generate more heat for the energy used?
I recently moved to a new apartment and removed a storage heater and an oil heater that were wired into the wall rather than plugged in. Both had three wires intersecting with three wires from the wall that I guess were related to the economy 7 set up.
I’m not on an economy 7 and didn’t want the big heaters taking up space along the wall so I removed them and left the wall wires connected to the intersecting plates (as you can see the prior disconnection pic in the oil heater photo) then decorated over the wall space with no issues.
Now that it is getting quite cold, I want to use the oil heater for a few months but don’t want to have it screwed to the wall and permanently wired back up.
So my two questions are:
1. question is: can I just wire wall plug onto the three wires that come out of the wall heater that you can see in the picture and use it as a plug-in heater?
2. At the moment I’ve been using the kitchen heater as it’s a galley kitchen with an open doorway to the living room, but that heater has some kind of element in it as you can see in the picture and is very expensive to run for long durations.
So, my other question is: Will running the big oil heater be cheaper than the kitchen element heater? Or if it’s the same kilowatt per hour usage. And Question 2.1: Even if the oil heater will cost the same as the kitchen element heater, will it generate more heat for the energy used?
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