Been looking for a thermostatic timer plug for use with e.g. a fan
heater to maintain a daytime temperature in an attic room, but 'off'
during the night.

Have looked around the web in vain, apart from one 'not available' on
the Amazon site.

Anyone know of one, please?

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On Friday 31 January 2014 15:32 Maurice wrote in uk.d-i-y:

Been looking for a thermostatic timer plug for use with e.g. a fan
heater to maintain a daytime temperature in an attic room, but 'off'
during the night.

Have looked around the web in vain, apart from one 'not available' on
the Amazon site.

Anyone know of one, please?


I wouldn't do two of those things:

1) Not a fan heater - they are fundamentally unsafe if left unattended.
I don't even like them nominally attended.

Fluff builds up or the motor fails. I have had 2 from Argos actually
melt their casing due to this.

2) It is IME easier to get the thermostat as part of the heater than
part of a plug in timer.


I have 4 De-Longhi (sp?) electric oil rads (3 "Vento", one "Dragon"
IIRC), 3 of which are on TE7-MP plug in 7 day timers (the 4th heater has
a 24h timer built in).

The DeLonghi's ar ethe best rads I have ever seen. They convect so
efficiently that the element draws power 100% duty cycle unlike a small
cheap B&Q one I have which has a duty cycle more like 20% !

The timers are fantastic - they switch 2kW with no trouble and have been
uttery relieable for 4 years.

http://www.amazon.co.uk/e/dp/B004I5BQA6

Ah - "Masterplug" seem to still be available...

HTH
Tim

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On Friday 31 January 2014 15:32 Maurice wrote in uk.d-i-y:

Been looking for a thermostatic timer plug for use with e.g. a fan
heater to maintain a daytime temperature in an attic room, but 'off'
during the night.

Have looked around the web in vain, apart from one 'not available' on
the Amazon site.

Anyone know of one, please?


I wouldn't do two of those things:

1) Not a fan heater - they are fundamentally unsafe if left unattended.
I don't even like them nominally attended.

The only time I've used a fire extinguisher in anger was on one of those
fans.

Fluff builds up or the motor fails. I have had 2 from Argos actually
melt their casing due to this.

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You would probably be best to get a timer, and a thermostat as separate
items I'd have thought, unless you want to wire up some kind of controller
on fly leads.
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Been looking for a thermostatic timer plug for use with e.g. a fan
heater to maintain a daytime temperature in an attic room, but 'off'
during the night.

Have looked around the web in vain, apart from one 'not available' on
the Amazon site.

Anyone know of one, please?

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On 31/01/2014 15:32, Maurice wrote:
Been looking for a thermostatic timer plug for use with e.g. a fan
heater to maintain a daytime temperature in an attic room, but 'off'
during the night.

Have looked around the web in vain, apart from one 'not available' on
the Amazon site.

Anyone know of one, please?


How about ebay 171102419785 ?

Not tried it mind...

Cheers,

Colin.

On 31/01/2014 20:17, Colin Stamp wrote:
On 31/01/2014 15:32, Maurice wrote:
Been looking for a thermostatic timer plug for use with e.g. a fan
heater to maintain a daytime temperature in an attic room, but 'off'
during the night.

Have looked around the web in vain, apart from one 'not available' on
the Amazon site.

Anyone know of one, please?


How about ebay 171102419785 ?

Not tried it mind...

Cheers,

Colin.

This one any good?

Or Google for "Plug-in timer thermostat" or somesuch.

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On Friday, January 31, 2014 3:32:25 PM UTC, Maurice wrote:
Been looking for a thermostatic timer plug for use with e.g. a fan
heater to maintain a daytime temperature in an attic room, but 'off'
during the night.
Have looked around the web in vain, apart from one 'not available' on
the Amazon site.
Anyone know of one, please?

I had a plugin thermostat years ago. Utterly useless, with no compensation it swung something silly like 6C between on & off.

Fan heaters unattended are a fire, just a question of when.


NT

On Fri, 31 Jan 2014 15:42:14 +0000, Tim Watts wrote:

1) Not a fan heater - they are fundamentally unsafe if left unattended.
I don't even like them nominally attended.

Fluff builds up or the motor fails. I have had 2 from Argos actually
melt their casing due to this.

Yes, better wall mounted?

2) It is IME easier to get the thermostat as part of the heater than
part of a plug in timer.

Problem with radiant heaters is the thermostat is too near the
source of direct heat.

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