timer setting not low enough

[izzy eckerslike]

Our Honeywell CH timer is like a lot of others & can only be set in 10 minute increments.

We have our HW set to come on for just 20 minutes a day & we get a tank of piping hot water that lasts until the next timer setting, we found that 18 minutes does the job just as well.

What's annoyed me is that I can't reduce the timer by just 2 minutes a day & save gas used by 14 minutes a week, 56 minutes a month, 672 minutes a year.
Which is over 11 hours of gas I am wasting money on & that's a lot

 

[namsag]

if its hot enough after 18 minutes then the cylinder stat turns it off regardless of clock

 

[doitall]

Our Honeywell CH timer is like a lot of others & can only be set in 10 minute increments.

We have our HW set to come on for just 20 minutes a day & we get a tank of piping hot water that lasts until the next timer setting, we found that 18 minutes does the job just as well.

What's annoyed me is that I can't reduce the timer by just 2 minutes a day & save gas used by 14 minutes a week, 56 minutes a month, 672 minutes a year.
Which is over 11 hours of gas I am wasting money on & that's a lot

I don't think you have done the sums, or need to re-do them.

It take x heat to heat x volume of water, and then the cylinder stat should turn the heat source off, if that isn't happening turn the stat down a tad.

 

[Agile]

Either he does not realise it turns off,

OR

He does not have a thermostat!

Even so the boiler should cycle if its power is not being adsorbed.

So what he really needs is a cylinder thermostat wired into the control system.

Tony

 

[Boilerman2]

IZZY you really should get out more, what a load of drivell!!

I know lets make a clock that you can programme to run for Seconds......

 

[palerider45]

what you want to do is stand by programmer with stop watch when it comes on turn on stop watch and after 18 mins turn programmer off, 2 mins saved. sorted

 

[bengasman]

Can't you use a bit more hot water so it doesn't get wasted?

 

[powell30]

OP....what a wally.....2 mins and he is annoyed. Oh dear, don't mention the national debt, world poverty or islamic terrorist threats......

I know....buy a bloody timer that does switch on and off by exact minutes....simples.