No central heating...new boiler

[Leeccc]

You need to stick with the engineer you had last ideally mate. Have you called him back out yet? What did he say?

The one who cured my tripping or the initial one. I text the one from Friday. No reply yet

 

[Harvest Fields]

The one who cured my tripping or the initial one. I text the one from Friday. No reply yet

The one that stopped the tripping

 

[Leeccc]

The one that stopped the tripping

Not yet, ill try again tomorrow. Looks like the immersion will be on again. With a plug in timer this time.

 

[Pickwickpick]

Not yet, ill try again tomorrow. Looks like the immersion will be on again. With a plug in timer this time.

By plug in timer do you mean one of these:

If so make sure its ok to handle however many watts your immersion heater draws, they're a massive fire risk if you plug anything too powerful into them.

 

[Leeccc]

By plug in timer do you mean one of these:
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If so make sure its ok to handle however many watts your immersion heater draws, they're a massive fire risk if you plug anything too powerful into them.

I was planning on something like that yes. 3120w max it says. Although no such info on the cylinder apart from redring immersion heater!

 

[Pickwickpick]

I was planning on something like that yes. 3120w max it says. Although no such info on the cylinder apart from redring immersion heater!

Yeh you want to read the wattage on the immersion heater itself. Assuming you've got one that's around 3kw if it was me I would not use one of those timers with it, they're notoriously shoddily made and if anything goes wrong you can be looking at a nasty fire. They do make heavy duty ones iirc that can handle higher wattages, especially higher inductive loads, I don't know enough electrixs wise to confirm if immersion heaters have high inductive loads when starting from cold light some lights do, but would not want to risk it.

E2a might not hurt to pop over to electrical forum and see what they recommend, as I say my knowledge of electrics isn't good enough to say one way or another sure but it's not something to take any chances with.

 

[Leeccc]

Yeh you want to read the wattage on the immersion heater itself. Assuming you've got one that's around 3kw if it was me I would not use one of those timers with it, they're notoriously shoddily made and if anything goes wrong you can be looking at a nasty fire. They do make heavy duty ones iirc that can handle higher wattages, especially higher inductive loads, I don't know enough electrixs wise to confirm if immersion heaters have high inductive loads when starting from cold light some lights do, but would not want to risk it.

Yeah your right, I'm not going to chance it. I'll just have to wake up early to put it on for missus and boy then switch it straight off again after an hour or so.

 

[Leeccc]

Thinking I should cancel Xmas and get a boiler instead!!!

 

[Riley]

As I say don’t give up on the system you’ve just not had a good time with engineers

 

[Leeccc]

As I say don’t give up on the system you’ve just not had a good time with engineers

It's so damned frustrating though! It always happens on a Friday or weekend!!