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It's a steel radiator, just in the style of a traditional column rad.Heat up time of 20 minutes seems very long but again if these are cast iron maybe normal, I'm sure some one on here can advise,
Practically speaking my only suggestion is to get hold of a oil filled rad or equivalent, turn off the rad, set the electric heater to whatever power settings are available and that should point you in the right direction. My oil filled rad has three settings, 0.8kw(2730BTU), 1.2kw(4094BTU) and 2kw(6824BTU)
Okay; thanks very much.Yes, any kind of electric heater of known power that you plug in to get a comparison, I can't think of any other way.
Yes, any kind of electric heater of known power that you plug in to get a comparison
Replace that with a decent double glazed unit and you'll probably reduce the heat loss and hence radiator size by a significant amount, typically, about a third.One window (Single glazed): 0.80 m x 1.53 m
So, I've used a 2 kW heater without the fan on so as to make it as similar to the radiator as possible. I placed it at the same room location as the rad.
I've had the heating off in that room so the unheated room had a temperature of 11 C. It took 2.5 hours to get the room temperature up to 20 C.
The heater cut out at 20 C, so presumably the thermostat cut in. I turned the heater off at this point so that I could determine how quickly the room temperature then dropped. It dropped from 20 C to 15 C in 1 hour.
I know there are several pipes connected to the underside of the gas boiler. I could easily take the temperature with the contactless thermometer, however I wouldn't know which is the return pipe, or how this could be determined.With a high flow through it and a high return temp, this radiator will increase return temperature at the boiler substantially. What is the return pipe temperature at the boiler?
I'll look into that then.If your whole system was balanced so each radiator had a 15deg drop you might surprisingly be able to increase boiler flow temp yet lower return temp so increasing overall efficiency.
There are people in the properties next door. I think one particular issue with this room, is that I have removed all the paint from the timber window frame in order to re-paint. It was previously painted closed over decades and this may have helped keep cold air out!I am a bit surprised that with one external wall that is insulated this room temp drops to 11 deg overnight. Is the whole house cold? Are the properties next door empty? Sort that window!
I have done this and set the boiler temperature to 75 C for the heating system. Starting with a room temperature of 12 C, it took 4.5 hours to get up to 21 C.Increase your boiler set point to 75C, this should give you a 2.4 kw rad based on the 50 deg rating, if its "only" producing" 2.0 kw it should still heat up your room in 2.5 hrs. Once you have a rough idea of what these column rads are actually producing then combined with the window mod as suggested, may mean that you can retain this rad with a boiler temp of 60/65C.
The hottest pipe is the flow probably 22mm copper. Next hottest is the return. Often at opposite ends of the boiler. Measure after boiler on for 30 min or so.I know there are several pipes connected to the underside of the gas boiler
Perhaps return temp too high so boiler modulating down?Well, if a 2 kw electric heater got the temp up in 2.5 hours and a "2.4" kw column rad takes 4.5 hours then its pretty obvious that its not producing 2.4 kw for whatever reason, maybe original spec very optimistic as someone stated so what options now?
I could look into the temperature drop issue referred to by gpbeck above. Though even if this is sorted, perhaps it won't make the major improvement which would be required.Well, if a 2 kw electric heater got the temp up in 2.5 hours and a "2.4" kw column rad takes 4.5 hours then its pretty obvious that its not producing 2.4 kw for whatever reason, maybe original spec very optimistic as someone stated so what options now?
The hottest pipe is the flow probably 22mm copper. Next hottest is the return. Often at opposite ends of the boiler. Measure after boiler on for 30 min or so.
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