Apologies if this has been answered before but I did look in the forum and although similar questions have been asked I think this is a new one so any advice or information would be very much appreciated…
I have an old (approx 30 year) Creda warm air storage heater in my flat which is not quite upto the job in the depths of winter. As such I am looking at installing a couple of new storage heaters thereby still taking advantage of the E7 supply I have.
My question is with regard to supplying these new storage heaters as I already have a fused CU which supplies the whole flat from the 1 set of tails at the prepayment meter although there is also a smaller cable from this meter which I believe is the teleswitch which activates the Creda storage heater at midnight which then draws from the existing CU and then also powers the warm air fan on demand the next day.
As I am looking at installing 3 new storage heaters, please can anyone tell me how I should supply these. I believe I should install either a dual fed CU or separate CU (I was looking at upgrading the old one to MCBs anyway) which will supply the storage heaters from midnight. My question is, should this new CU be fed from separate tails from the meter or use the existing set of tails and utilise the timeswitch to activate the other half of a split CU via a contactor.
I have rung and asked my supplier (NPower) 8 times now and cannot get a word of sense from them, so any help and advice from the good people on this forum would be much appreciated.
Many Thanks,
Brixnmorta.
I have an old (approx 30 year) Creda warm air storage heater in my flat which is not quite upto the job in the depths of winter. As such I am looking at installing a couple of new storage heaters thereby still taking advantage of the E7 supply I have.
My question is with regard to supplying these new storage heaters as I already have a fused CU which supplies the whole flat from the 1 set of tails at the prepayment meter although there is also a smaller cable from this meter which I believe is the teleswitch which activates the Creda storage heater at midnight which then draws from the existing CU and then also powers the warm air fan on demand the next day.
As I am looking at installing 3 new storage heaters, please can anyone tell me how I should supply these. I believe I should install either a dual fed CU or separate CU (I was looking at upgrading the old one to MCBs anyway) which will supply the storage heaters from midnight. My question is, should this new CU be fed from separate tails from the meter or use the existing set of tails and utilise the timeswitch to activate the other half of a split CU via a contactor.
I have rung and asked my supplier (NPower) 8 times now and cannot get a word of sense from them, so any help and advice from the good people on this forum would be much appreciated.
Many Thanks,
Brixnmorta.