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.
Anyone know of one, please?
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.
Ah - "Masterplug" seem to still be available...
HTH Tim
The only time I've used a fire extinguisher in anger was on one of those fans.
I bought one in B&Q a few years back. About £20 IIRC.
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
How about ebay 171102419785 ?
Not tried it mind...
Cheers,
Colin.
This one any good?
Or Google for "Plug-in timer thermostat" or somesuch.
I had a plugin thermostat years ago. Utterly useless, with no compensation it swung something silly like 6C between on & off.
Fan heaters unattended are a fire, just a question of when.
NT
Yes, better wall mounted?
Problem with radiant heaters is the thermostat is too near the source of direct heat.
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