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Maintaining constant overnight bedroom temperature with electric heater
I've got a large house with gas central heating which I use during the
day. It gets cold overnight in the bedroom though, so I use a 2KW electric convection heater with the thermostat set to about 18 C on a timeclock which switches on between midnight and six am (boiler comes on again at six). This was a great improvement last winter, and it only uses one or two KWh overnight which must be cheaper than heating the whole house with gas. This year I want to improve the solution to keep the temperature more constant (there's a big hysteresis on the convection heater thermostat) and remove the bimetallic thermostat clicking noise. I think I want electronic switching to remove the clicking noise and allow a lower hysteresis plus an external temperature sensor. Maybe something that's closer to a temperature controlled dimmer switch instead of a standard bimetallic thermostat. My plan is to put this temperature controller between the timeclock and the heater, and set the heater thermostat to something like 25C as a fail-safe. Has anyone found or built something like this? I'm sure I can't be the only person who want a constant overnight bedroom temperature without running the main house heating. |
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