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Economy 7 Immersion Heater Not Working
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<blockquote data-quote="Phill1983" data-source="post: 394845" data-attributes="member: 26419"><p>Hi,</p><p></p><p>We have an immersion heater that is supposed to run on economy 7 electricity and heat up our water through the night. This stopped working around a year ago for no apparent reason and we're trying to figure out what the problem would be.</p><p></p><p>Basically, theres 2 switches in the cupboard that the tank is hooked upto. One of them powers the top part of the immersion heater and gives us a boost whenever we need it which is what we've been surviving on. Then the bottom half of the immersion which I presume is the section which controls the overnight heating is also connected to a switch on the wall but this doesn't have a on/off switch so I'm not sure what exactly controls when/how this switches on or off. From reading around I understand that there should be a timer somewhere but we've searched high and low and can't find anything like that.</p><p></p><p>We've tried changing the fuse but that had no affect, and we haven't changed our electrical supplier so if this is somehow controlled remotely by them then there should be no reason for any change.</p><p></p><p>We're just not sure what to try next, I presume it could be that the heating element is simply broke or something like that but as we don't understand exactly how it works in the first place we would like some advice on what it could be? What controls when this switches on overnight? Is there a timer/switch somewhere that we could be missing?</p><p></p><p>We'd really appreciate your feedback an I have a few pics of the current setup an can provide anymore if necessary.</p><p></p><p>Thanks</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Phill1983, post: 394845, member: 26419"] Hi, We have an immersion heater that is supposed to run on economy 7 electricity and heat up our water through the night. This stopped working around a year ago for no apparent reason and we're trying to figure out what the problem would be. Basically, theres 2 switches in the cupboard that the tank is hooked upto. One of them powers the top part of the immersion heater and gives us a boost whenever we need it which is what we've been surviving on. Then the bottom half of the immersion which I presume is the section which controls the overnight heating is also connected to a switch on the wall but this doesn't have a on/off switch so I'm not sure what exactly controls when/how this switches on or off. From reading around I understand that there should be a timer somewhere but we've searched high and low and can't find anything like that. We've tried changing the fuse but that had no affect, and we haven't changed our electrical supplier so if this is somehow controlled remotely by them then there should be no reason for any change. We're just not sure what to try next, I presume it could be that the heating element is simply broke or something like that but as we don't understand exactly how it works in the first place we would like some advice on what it could be? What controls when this switches on overnight? Is there a timer/switch somewhere that we could be missing? We'd really appreciate your feedback an I have a few pics of the current setup an can provide anymore if necessary. Thanks [/QUOTE]
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