Jon Fairbairn wrote:
Rod writes:

Jon Fairbairn wrote:
Rod writes:

Which made me think, I'd quite like electric fires to switch
off entirely of the power fails. I can imagine a situation
in which a fire is just left but something is put
on/near/dropped onto such a fire during a failure - and
forgotten/missed in the dark that often accompanies power
cuts. Even just the waste of power that could occur might be
a reason!
You want one of these:
http://www.poolewood.co.uk/acatalog/..._Switches.html

And the styling is so in tune with the domestic setting!

Would be fine in the nursery with the Duplo... :-)

Yes!

(Yes - in principle, exactly right.

I'm not sure, now I think about it. If there's a thermostat
in there that simply interrupts all the current, it'll run
till the room's up to temperature and then switch off
permanently...

Should be built-in.

Not a bad idea. It could then be done with a work-round for
the above problem.

Surely it wouldn't cost 21.70 *extra* to do so?

No, but they might charge that much extra.

My pet peeve in this line is the valves in gas cookers that
shut the gas off when the lid is closed -- but turn it back
on without igniting it when it's opened again.

But even if a thermostat cuts out current, it won't remove volts from
the supply, will it?

--
Rod

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