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Whilst investigating other heating and plumbing related things I've never previously needed to care about, I realize my tank has an immersion heater, on the photo below. It's been turned on at its socket on the left of the image all 7 years I've been here, but during times the boiler hasn't worked recently/last winter, I've had no hot water - which is why I'd never thought about it before.
Is there a point to it, and it being on? Am I wasting electricity? I presume not as I guess it's intelligent enough to turn itself off once the water is hot enough - which it is since the boiler heats it instead. And that'd be assuming it worked anyway, which evidence suggests it does not so perhaps it's using nothing at all.
Is there a point to it, and it being on? Am I wasting electricity? I presume not as I guess it's intelligent enough to turn itself off once the water is hot enough - which it is since the boiler heats it instead. And that'd be assuming it worked anyway, which evidence suggests it does not so perhaps it's using nothing at all.