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I had a problem, so looked up the part number of the thermostat, a TS-220
sorry for mirror image, and on looking it says 7 inches long, but my tank must be near to 4 foot tall, so it is only measuring the temperature of a small amount of the tank. The reset had popped and the temperature was set too high, so lowered temperature and reset.
The iboost+ then started to heat my water at nearly full output, but not for long, very soon it said
which basic means the thermostat has turned off and so immersion is open circuit, if there is no spare power it says
then I found the iboost+ turning on again latter and it said something like
not the full 3 kW but some lower amount, I assume the water has been moved in the tank allowing it to re-start heating it, not sure if the lower amount due to how much solar available or if there is some software which tell iboost+ to reduce how much it heats if it was on not long before?
However I am not sure how an immersion heats the tank, OK read about the Irish Willis system, but don't think I could trust a Welsh plumber to fit that, I have a simple immersion in the top of tank, and a hot coil further down, so how does the immersion heat the tank? Does it only heat top 7 inches, or do thermals slowly move the water allowing although slowly the whole tank to be heated?
I would think the peak
is where the tank was reheating due to it having tripped before and my resetting the cutout, not sure about other peaks, it says it has used 0.70 kWh today (actually says "saved today") but when I run the central heating to heat the water it runs for around 20 minutes at 21 kW which equals 7.00 kWh not 0.70 kWh, OK some losses in the pipe work, but we are looking at 10 times the energy used.
So what is going on? Has it been for the last 4 years since moving hear I have been using too much energy to keep water warm?
Also the boiler ran once every other day, set to run for ½ hour, but would cut out after 20 minutes, and water would stay warm over the 48 hours, but when the over temp trip opened within a day water was cold.
I have only once run a bath since moving here, and unlikely I will return to bathing instead of showering even if a bath costs less, due to being heated with solar, but shower uses too much power to be supplied by solar, at least all by solar. But I do wonder if using the immersion heater if I could fill a bath? Can't try it would upset wife as she has stuff stored in the bath, her e-bike is in one.
So comments welcome, I am willing to learn, although think the Welsh plumbers are too tick to fit a Willis system.
The iboost+ then started to heat my water at nearly full output, but not for long, very soon it said
However I am not sure how an immersion heats the tank, OK read about the Irish Willis system, but don't think I could trust a Welsh plumber to fit that, I have a simple immersion in the top of tank, and a hot coil further down, so how does the immersion heat the tank? Does it only heat top 7 inches, or do thermals slowly move the water allowing although slowly the whole tank to be heated?
I would think the peak
So what is going on? Has it been for the last 4 years since moving hear I have been using too much energy to keep water warm?
Also the boiler ran once every other day, set to run for ½ hour, but would cut out after 20 minutes, and water would stay warm over the 48 hours, but when the over temp trip opened within a day water was cold.
I have only once run a bath since moving here, and unlikely I will return to bathing instead of showering even if a bath costs less, due to being heated with solar, but shower uses too much power to be supplied by solar, at least all by solar. But I do wonder if using the immersion heater if I could fill a bath? Can't try it would upset wife as she has stuff stored in the bath, her e-bike is in one.
So comments welcome, I am willing to learn, although think the Welsh plumbers are too tick to fit a Willis system.