Ageing rellies vintage 70s? dimplex wall mounted fan heater has retired.
Had adjustable rotary 'clockwork' 'countdown' timer, rotary adjustable heat controls, push button on/off.
Rellies keen to have similar, despite my doubts about the point of the 'countdown timer' - why would you want to leave the bathroom with a fan heater going for x minutes until it switched itself off??
Anyway, goggling reveals nothing very similar (no surprises there), anyone any pointers please?
TIA
Jim K
Are you sure it's an over-run timer, that starts at switch off, rather than a run timer that starts at switch on, which would make more sense?
Oh sorry, I re-read your question and it is the latter scenario. If the alternative it would be forgotten about and left on all day, it's a good idea.
Ebay has this
It says: "Supplied complete with Electronic run-back Timer which automatically switches heater off after pre set time". Not clockwork, but sounds similar.
In article , JimK writes
Dimplex are still doing them but with electronic timers (which comes as no surprise). Current models appear to be pull cord triggered with a run back timer for a set period (adjustable by jumpers, 5 - 80mins). Not sure if the period can be terminated early.
See model DX FX20VE or DX FX20EIPX4 eg:
Run on after a shower or bath isn't so daft as it will help dry the room out, as long as there is some ventilation.
/- show quoted text - Ebay has this
It says: "Supplied complete with Electronic run-back Timer which automatically switches heater off after pre set time". Not clockwork, but sounds similar./q
Yes I saw these on my goggling, but they have no thermostat, no heat adjustment (except on installation), & timer run on is fixed (on installation)
So not similar enough I reckon.
Cheers Jim K
/Are you sure it's an over-run timer, that starts at switch off, rather than a run timer that starts at switch on, which would make more sense? /q
Mmm fair point, as its bust I'm not 100% sure what its supposed to do, I'll find out.....
Jim K
In message , at 12:59:35 on Sun, 1 Feb 2015, Graham. remarked:
Been there, done that, got the t-shirt (left such a bathroom heater on all day by mistake).
All they ever seemed to do was collect filth, and heat t up the top metre or so of the room they were in. Far better were those bar firees with pull cords, silent and nice and toasty as they use radiant heat not just blown out hot air. Brian
Not with the racket most used to make after a couple of years use, assuming not jammed up and burned out by then of course due to all the damp crud that they suck in. Brian
Bollocks. They work quite well.
Especially if positioned so they (a) demist the mirror, and (b) can be stood under for hair-drying.
Owain
+1.
I have one older Dimplex, of an age where it will last forever. Well, the pull cord switch died after a year or so, and I cleaned it up and it made it switch a DIN rail contactor in the heater rather than the element directly, which it's now been doing for nearly 30 years.
Routine cleaning is essential, with an air duster can and vacuum cleaner.
Even so, we've never managed to get more recent models of any make to last more than 5 years (and very much less without the cleaning).
+1 more vote for fan heaters in bathrooms.
In the light of what you say the Dimplex here probably deserves special mention next time we update our wills. After all, it's only 25 :)
Just threw away a Dimplex convector. First the safety thermostat failed, then the main one.
Don't make 'em like they used to. How old?
At least 10 years. We couldn't remember.
Dimplex wanted £44 for the thermostat - more than a replacement heater. I could have got a generic one, but since the safety stat had already failed (and it's riveted to the heating element) I decided to call it quits.
ARW explained on 01/02/2015 :
No, they don't - or at least, only a bit.
Not long ago I had a dose of the squits at about 2.30am and had to sit on the loo for about half an hour. It was very cold that night so I obviously switched on the fan heater as soon as I walked in the room. The model of fan heater we've got is like most on the market today in that it starts off at 2kw output but then switches down to 1kw when
*IT,* not me, decides it's hot enough.I'm sat there, shivering my watsits off, when after about 10 minutes I hear the click of the fan switching to 1kw output. Up at fan height it was indeed bleedin' boiling but down at loo level it was fookin freezing!!!
Sticking a heater up high then hoping doesn't change basic laws of physics, unfortunately. Heat will always rise, no matter how much you cross your fingers that it won't.
It's not exactly high - ceilings are 7' 6" and the only place it could go means that the outlet grille of the heater is at 5' 8". The bathroom's only the size of a shoebox! Bloody useless things :-@
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