Megaflo Electric - doesn't heat at all during the day?

[danuea]

Hi all,

Apologies in advance, have never had an electric hot water system before and don't fully understand how it's meant to work and don't have any manuals etc!

I have a Heatrae Sadia Megaflo tank in my airing cupboard. It seems to heat water up overnight fine, but once you've used what's in the tank during the day you won't get any more hot water until the next day. A couple of reasonable length showers in the morning seems to be enough to do this and it's pretty frustrating having no more hot water!

Is this how it's supposed to work? I would've thought there would at least be the option to get it to heat during the day also. I'm on a SuperDeal electricity tariff which is like a fancy Economy 7 that charges different rates for day elec, night elec, and stored heat elec (for the storage heaters). Could this be something to do with it? i.e. the power to it is switched at some point.

Many thanks for any help you can provide, if I'm not giving enough information then let me know!

Cheers,
Dan

 

[superdupergasman]

Check your settings on your timeclock??

It will be turned off during the day to reduce bills but if you need the hot water you could advance it so that it heats up again.

 

[badmonkey]

If, like the heatrae sadia I just removed, your controller should/may have a overide timer which will heat the water (mine was for 60 mins). See pic of timer here.

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