On Thu, 22 Apr 2004 12:43:53 +0100, Oshiponga wrote:

So 1000kW/hrs for a whole house in a month doesn't strike me as to
far from the mark.

Thing is, what I may not have made clear is that this is literally
for one and a half storage heaters. One in the living room on at
about half charge rate for the full month and one in the bedroom on
the same charge for about 2 of the weeks in the month.

Selective quoting is wonderful is it not?

The rest of my post to back up the above statement was also for one
and a bit heaters.

See other post about what the "charge" control does. It does limit the
maximum temperature the bricks get up too, thus the total amount of
stored heat. If you are letting out most of that heat during the day
then the heater will be taking power for most if not all of the off
peak period to get hot again...

1000 units over 31 days at 7hrs a day is an average load of 4.6kW. Two
3kW heaters and one only on for part of the period, as you say, could
average that without to much difficulty. Remember it has been
winter...

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