EricP wrote:
On Thu, 1 Feb 2007 17:31:21 -0000, "tishtash" wrote:

Hi,

I have these very old fashioned radio controlled heaters which turn
on at a certain time and store heat and diepsnse it slowly through
the day and they are absolutely rubbish!

What I was wondering is there perhaps a way to bypass the radio
controlled part to turn them on whenever I want to ?

thanks

There is no radio control. They are just boxes of bricks heated by an
element run on a timeclock, set to use very cheap night time
electricity.

Not entirely true.

My parents when they lived up in Aberdeenshire had radio controlled
switching of the storage heaters. The switching was controlled by the power
company to give them more flexibility in controlling demand (and
consequently offer cheaper electricity).

As a system it seemed to work reasonably well and it included the option to
boost the output of some heaters on reduced rated elctrcity (although not as
cheap as the storage heater rate).

Tim