Issues with heating/prepay power

Ms.RBrite · 27-11-2013 11:57AM #1

Hi all,

The last number of months I have been living in an apt that has storage heating and Prepay Power. What I'd like to know is what settings should I have the DeviReg in the fusebox set to; -4, -2, 0, +2, +4? I have figured out the storage heaters settings re the input/output and I think they are coming on charge about 5.00am-ish. Does this seem right?

Also, initially I had been getting by on €20 per week on the prepay power but now it's up €30 and that only lasted me 5 days this week!!:eek: The only thing I can put this down to is the storage heaters and it's a big jump as far as I'm concerned.

Has anybody any advice?

Cycling Dumbasses · 27-11-2013 04:33PM

The weather is getting colder so to maintain indoor temperature will use more energy thus increase in costs, 30 euro a week is not expensive in my opinion, if your apt is good and warm i would not be too hard on the costs.

tomdempsey200 · 27-11-2013 09:48PM

you turn the night control up/down to adjust heat...it takes a night for changes to take effect

the devireg charges the heaters at the end of the off -peak period...thats possibly why they came on at 5am if you had the night control (a) turned down

or else the timing is wrong as the off-peak period starts around midnight

you leave the day control (b) at 0

Ms.RBrite · 28-11-2013 12:01PM

Thanks for the replies.

Cycling Dumbasses: The apt is not the best heat-wise but luckily the sitting room and bedrooms are relatively ok but the hallway and bathroom can be quite cold now.

tomdempsey200: Thanks, I will try adjusting them. I had them set to +2 or +4 but then switched them to -2/-4 as I wasn't sure what the correct settings were.

tomdempsey200 · 28-11-2013 01:27PM

that might explain why it came on later ...if the dial is turned right down

assuming the timing is ok

Issues with heating/prepay power

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