Storage Heaters : How Do They Work?!

Jim

So having no idea how to use them properly and after getting a massive leccy bill last winter I decided last night to do some research. So from what I understand there are two "on" switches on the wall for the heater. One for peak times and one for off peak times. The idea is that I leave the "off peak" switch on 24 hours a day and it will start generating heat only during off peak hours and then release the heat slowly during the course of the day.

So last night at about 11:30pm I try both switches. One turns on the heater and the other doesn't. So I figured that must be the off peak switch. I leave it on and set the Input to 4 and Output to 1. It starts generating and releasing heat and the light on the side is on. So I leave it and go to bed.

When I go into the sitting room at 11am this morning the heater is still releasing heat, fine, but it also still seems to be generating heat? I can't be 100% certain, but it was much hotter than I thought it would be if it had stopped generating heat (due to now being peak hours) and the "on" light is still on. So I switch the "off peak" switch on the wall off and the light goes off and it stops generating and releasing heat. I then tried to "peak hours" switch but that had no effect on the heater. No heat and no light.

So it seems that the "off peak" switch is the only one that turns the heater on and it leaves it on all the time instead of just at "off peak" hours. Is the heater broken or is there something I'm missing?



Cheers,
Jim.

Jim

Just noticed I posted in the wrong forum. This can be deleted!