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Hello all
I have just moved in to a new rental accomodation in the UK. The accomodation has no gas and is purely run on electricity. I think all of my hot water is heated through an immersion heater (a 'Heatrae Sadia Megaflo DD210' pictured below).
I am trying to reduce my electricity useage as I had a rather nasty shock last month. I've been advised that it is could be due to the immersion heater as I think it had been set so that it was running 24/7.
The immersion heater has two connections to the mains. Both of these connections have been switched on.
I think 1 is linked to a control panel. Since the nasty shock, I played around with the control panel so that the immersion heater is programmed to be on for 6 hours a day (3 hours in the morning and 3 in the evening). This switch is labelled '12HR IMMERSION'. I have no idea whether this programming has had any effect.
There is a second switch labelled '24HR IMMERSION'. I am not sure what this switch does. I am worried that if this is needlesly switched on then I will get another huge electricity bill.
I have played around with the two swithces:
When I switch off 'Switch 2' (24HR), there is an immediate difference in the sound of the Immersion heater.
When I swtich off 'Switch 1' (12HR) there is no difference in the sound of the immersion heater. There is also no audible difference when the heater programmer switches from 'off to on' or vice-versa.
I am worried that my Immersion Heater might continue to be heating up water 24/7 (and therefore incurring huge quantities of electricity).
Would anyone be so kind to advise? Unfortunately I am clueless with this stuff but really want to avoid another nasty shock next month.
Thank you in advance,
Sally R
I have just moved in to a new rental accomodation in the UK. The accomodation has no gas and is purely run on electricity. I think all of my hot water is heated through an immersion heater (a 'Heatrae Sadia Megaflo DD210' pictured below).
I am trying to reduce my electricity useage as I had a rather nasty shock last month. I've been advised that it is could be due to the immersion heater as I think it had been set so that it was running 24/7.
The immersion heater has two connections to the mains. Both of these connections have been switched on.
I think 1 is linked to a control panel. Since the nasty shock, I played around with the control panel so that the immersion heater is programmed to be on for 6 hours a day (3 hours in the morning and 3 in the evening). This switch is labelled '12HR IMMERSION'. I have no idea whether this programming has had any effect.
There is a second switch labelled '24HR IMMERSION'. I am not sure what this switch does. I am worried that if this is needlesly switched on then I will get another huge electricity bill.
I have played around with the two swithces:
When I switch off 'Switch 2' (24HR), there is an immediate difference in the sound of the Immersion heater.
When I swtich off 'Switch 1' (12HR) there is no difference in the sound of the immersion heater. There is also no audible difference when the heater programmer switches from 'off to on' or vice-versa.
I am worried that my Immersion Heater might continue to be heating up water 24/7 (and therefore incurring huge quantities of electricity).
Would anyone be so kind to advise? Unfortunately I am clueless with this stuff but really want to avoid another nasty shock next month.
Thank you in advance,
Sally R