Been looking for a thermostatic timer plug for use with e.g. a fan heater to maintain a daytime temperature in an attic room, but 'off' during the night.
Have looked around the web in vain, apart from one 'not available' on the Amazon site.
On Friday 31 January 2014 15:32 Maurice wrote in uk.d-i-y:
I wouldn't do two of those things:
1) Not a fan heater - they are fundamentally unsafe if left unattended. I don't even like them nominally attended.
Fluff builds up or the motor fails. I have had 2 from Argos actually melt their casing due to this.
2) It is IME easier to get the thermostat as part of the heater than part of a plug in timer.
I have 4 De-Longhi (sp?) electric oil rads (3 "Vento", one "Dragon" IIRC), 3 of which are on TE7-MP plug in 7 day timers (the 4th heater has a 24h timer built in).
The DeLonghi's ar ethe best rads I have ever seen. They convect so efficiently that the element draws power 100% duty cycle unlike a small cheap B&Q one I have which has a duty cycle more like 20% !
The timers are fantastic - they switch 2kW with no trouble and have been uttery relieable for 4 years.
You would probably be best to get a timer, and a thermostat as separate items I'd have thought, unless you want to wire up some kind of controller on fly leads. Brian
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