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Default So how much power does an oil filled radiator actually use.


As some might have read we've been supplied with a number of oil filled radaitors

http://cpc.farnell.com/pro-elec/pel0...ack/dp/HG00575

So I unpacked them and installed them, one by one.

In an attempted to trip our 32 amp circuit braker I would have thought that 5 would have done it, but they didn't.

On switch on they started at about 1.6KW (using an old maplin power meter)
I left them fully on, that's the highest setting .

The lab voltage dropped from the 220V to about 202V so that accounts for it I guess.

But what realy suprised me was the power consumption of a radiator when it was full on, anyone care to guess what it was.

Voltage 202


 
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