View Single Post
  #9   Report Post  
Posted to uk.d-i-y
Roger Mills Roger Mills is offline
external usenet poster
 
Posts: 2,488
Default 1.7kW Storage heater plugged into ring main?

In an earlier contribution to this discussion,
Owain wrote:


It would be better to hard wire into the off-peak board, but
*provided* your immersion is not on the ring, you'll probably get
away with it.


Why that proviso? It's only 1.7kW - less than lots of other things which may
be plugged into the ring. The ring should be able to support a total load of
7 or 8 kW without too much difficulty.
--
Cheers,
Roger
______
Email address maintained for newsgroup use only, and not regularly
monitored.. Messages sent to it may not be read for several weeks.
PLEASE REPLY TO NEWSGROUP!