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Fitting Kensa pumps as part of setups to heat RNLI stations. Its impressive how much heat it pulls from a barrel of water (just for testing purposes)
Wheres that?
Fitting Kensa pumps as part of setups to heat RNLI stations. Its impressive how much heat it pulls from a barrel of water (just for testing purposes)
Moving house soon, the new place has the old style storage heaters full of bricks and I imagine an economy 7 meter. I want to replace these obviously but what to go for. More modern electric heaters, oil or (Tanked) gas central heating, can any one suggest what and why???
there good boilers and worth havingWe went down the all electric route, using a Heatre Sadia Amptec boiler, with wet radiators.
Supplemented with a log burner for occasional use.
Havn't been cold yet.
Everyone keeps saying it must be expensive to run... maybe, a bit dearer than other options, but bills arnt that bad.
Oil wasnt really much of an option due to siting a tank, couldn't be doing with clanking gas cylinders around...
Amptec was just a case of adding a bit of wiring, and away we go. No ringing up for gas, no waiting in for an oil refill.
No fancy corgi guy needed to service... so the slightly dearer running cost is offset by the easy maintenance an instal.
Various stations, latest one is off to North Wales I think. Ppwphwwplyyyn of somewhere like that.Wheres that?
I never actually got sorted out, Avanti simply refused to refill their cylinder, and it still has some gas in that we are using. When it is eventually empty I will have to do battle to get them to remove the ugly thing. For it to be made ‘legal’ it would have to go bang in the middle of where I am building my workshop.
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Minimutly,
how do you work out that it is free?
They are, even at the reputedly modern cheaper prices, expensive, to fit. Consider that the output bulds up slowly and declines at the same rate. On a good day you may get a reasonable amount of power for an hour or two, in winter very little, i.e. one quarter of the year. I certainly couln't cook my Sunday dinner, we don't have a cooked lunch so little to no power at that time. That is a fundemental problem with solar, maximum out put rarely matches maximum demand, so either you need even more expense of adding storage or you lose the potential for some power from a large expensive solar panel array. sorry, for the U.K. they are a non starter for me.
Alec
I'm glad that gave you a laugh, anyone who uses a language that has 5 ways to pronounce one letter should show the oldest language in Britain some respect I think.Various stations, latest one is off to North Wales I think. Ppwphwwplyyyn of somewhere like that.
We went down the all electric route, using a Heatre Sadia Amptec boiler, with wet radiators.
Supplemented with a log burner for occasional use.
Havn't been cold yet.
Everyone keeps saying it must be expensive to run... maybe, a bit dearer than other options, but bills arnt that bad.
Oil wasnt really much of an option due to siting a tank, couldn't be doing with clanking gas cylinders around...
Amptec was just a case of adding a bit of wiring, and away we go. No ringing up for gas, no waiting in for an oil refill.
No fancy corgi guy needed to service... so the slightly dearer running cost is offset by the easy maintenance an instal.
I’ve thought of going all electric. We already have electric shower, with no bath tub. I’d be happy to have all electric cooker too, induction job etc. I have a small two bedroom bungalow.
Currently I have a gas boiler in the garage, with all the attendant miles of copper pipes running hither and yon.
the new night storage heaters are a dead loss u need an off peak and daytime supply to them and there expensive to buy and run
@Matchless I have some you can have ..brand new in the plastic !! (think i still have them , will check tommorow)I understand the old storage heater had fire bricks inside, could be of use to some on here, like me, but you are too probably too far away.
Well, nothing is 100% efficient. And even the new low loss storage heaters will lose some heat, but apparently it's tiny compared to the old ones.All electric heating is 100% efficient, no more, no less.
When it is eventually empty I will have to do battle to get them to remove the ugly thing.
I understand the old storage heater had fire bricks inside, could be of use to some on here, like me, but you are too probably too far away.
Well, nothing is 100% efficient. And even the new low loss storage heaters will lose some heat, but apparently it's tiny compared to the old ones.
Just for kicks I tried using an oldish creda storage heater connected so it was absorbing spare solar power - it was useless, it leaked most of what I put in, and I couldn't control the output, even assuming there was any left to control. The new ones are very different.
The point Jack was making, was 100% off the electricity goes to making heat in your property, unlike gas/oil/wood, where you'll always lose a percentage out the exhaust, and to light and sound.
Even on a poor storage heater, 100% off the heat is going to heating your home, not the greater outdoors. It just might not be heating your home when you want your home heated though...