Help with storage heater please

[Edpayasugo]

Hi, I have a Duoheat storage heater DUO500i in my living room. I followed a couple of YouTube videos and online manuals for the settings , so I thought I had it set up to take in energy overnight using Eco7 and then give out during the day. However both today and yesterday the cost for this has been over £5 (I know electricity is currently expensive etc) , this is to heat one small room , to a not particularly high level, for one. day

Is this reasonable and in line with expectation? I do not know how to calculate the expected cost of usage, but it seems prohibitively high to me. As a comparison, how much would it cost to Gas radiator heat one room for a day?

Does anyone else have the same setup and they can tell me how much they are spending? After cooking and heating water I'll be looking at £10 per day for electricity.

Thanks.

 

[Murdoch]

A quick look suggests this is a 2.6 kw unit.

£5.00 divided by £0.34 = about 14kw

14 kw divided by 2.6 kw = about 5.5 hours

so yes the usage could be correct ( obviously change the kwh rate to reflect what you pay to get a bit more accurate)

hope this helps

 

[Edpayasugo]

Thank you, attached is what the company have shared with me, do you know what the difference between nominal output and background input are please? I assume the former is the heat given out and the latter is the power required to generate?

My night rate is 25.9p, so £5/25.9p = 19.3
19.3 / 2.6 = 7.4, which is roughly my Eco7 hours.
So I suppose it does make sense, it just seems unbelievably expensive.

Thank you.

 

[Murdoch]

Unfortunately with the cost of lecky & gas & oil these days no form of heating is cheap

Thanks for the update BTW