Re: The total bullshit that these bastards produce

but if you could variably control the output so that it was what the room needed to maintain the temperature, it would probably be more comfortable than the simple ON or OFF normally used.

Yes, a simmerstat will work but, as Harry says, watch the power - cooker rings are 2kW max. I've used simmerstats on other applications but never

power or temperature.

The one with the so-called 'working' control shoots straight up to max and eventually decided to start working as a temp controller after I'd cycled it through a timer many times.

Cheers chaps. I'll give it a go later. I have a new simmerstat kicking around somewhere, need to see what rating it is. I can also fit a clip-on stat to the heater body and an overheat stat to bring the things up to some sort of safer later spec. The equivalent model now is selling for 150quid, but has much better controls on it. I don't know what the output of these are - likely a minimum of 2kW going by what they belt out at full-on.

I'm in the process of cobbling together a Honeywell DT90E stat with a remot= e controlled socket to provide wirefree control of a convector heater in a = conservatory. The stat employs their 'Time Proportional & Integral' functio= nality so it'll be interesting to see how accurately it manages to hold a t= emperature. Unlike on my central heating I'll be setting the cycle time and= min on/off period as short as possible.

Mathew

I'll have a look, ta.

Also China, via eBay. Very cheap.