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my heater

  • 07-01-2008 3:31pm
    #1
    moco
    Registered Users Posts: 972 ✭✭✭


    I have a wee fan heater in my bedroom and I woke up this morning to the sound of it on, then it turned itself a second later. When I looked the switch was at off, and I hadn't turned it on. The room was cold so it must have only been on a short time.

    What's going on? Is my heater haunted?

    I'm scared.


Comments

  • #2
    Cathmandooo
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 17,324 ✭✭✭✭Cathmandooo


    Must have been the house elf playing tricks again!


  • #3
    The_B_Man
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,879 ✭✭✭The_B_Man


    ghosts get cold too!


  • #4
    bushy...
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,467 ✭✭✭bushy...


    Some have a frost setting or its gremlins


  • #5
    Jack Sheehan
    Registered Users Posts: 1,693 ✭✭✭Jack Sheehan


    Theres nothing to worry about moco, you see your heater is just going through its heaterpause which is causing its 'hot flashes'.


  • #6
    Archeron
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,337 ✭✭✭Archeron


    Be afraid OP, be very afraid. In space heaters, no one can hear you scream.


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  • #7
    FunkZ
    Closed Accounts Posts: 4,179 ✭✭✭FunkZ


    It's time to perform an exorcism on your heater, Jaysus!

    "Let the power of Christ compel you, let the power of Christ compel you"!


  • #8
    connundrum
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,563 ✭✭✭connundrum


    Take it to PI.

    Oh and all electric heating things should be switched off and plugged out when going to sleep. Safety 1st!


  • #9
    Karoma
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 19,396 ✭✭✭✭Karoma


    moco wrote: »
    I have a wee fan heater in my bedroom and I woke up this morning to the sound of it on, then it turned itself a second later. When I looked the switch was at off, and I hadn't turned it on. The room was cold so it must have only been on a short time.

    What's going on? Is my heater haunted?

    I'm scared.
    It's OK. It's quite simple: you're crazy.


  • #10
    18AD
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,821 ✭✭✭18AD


    Are you crazy! You know this could lead to fan death!

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fan_death

    Good luck!
    AD.


  • #11
    humanji
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 19,976 ✭✭✭✭humanji


    You were asleep and imagined the noise? I once did that, screaming the house down because of an imaginary fire. Just stop eating cheese before bed.


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  • #12
    John Mason
    Hosted Moderators Posts: 10,661 ✭✭✭✭John Mason


    the house is definately haunted moco.

    move out immediately,

    i have a room to rent my house, which i will left you have at a good rate.

    i have rid all the ghosts from my house and i have gfch, so no need for a fan heater :D


  • #13
    ejmaztec
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 24,129 ✭✭✭✭ejmaztec


    connundrum wrote: »
    Take it to PI.

    Oh and all electric heating things should be switched off and plugged out when going to sleep. Safety 1st!

    I hope that you don't work in the intensive care department of your local hospital:eek:


  • #14
    rubadub
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 32,382 ✭✭✭✭rubadub


    I would return it or ditch it. Faulty high power equipment is no joke, a definite fire hazard.


  • #15
    moco
    Registered Users Posts: 972 ✭✭✭moco


    What I'm really afraid of is if it turns itself on when it's unplugged.:eek:

    What if I go home and it's dangling from the celing by the cord.:eek:


  • #16
    moco
    Registered Users Posts: 972 ✭✭✭moco


    Oh god now I'm scared of fan death too.


  • #17
    jdivision
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,260 ✭✭✭jdivision


    Is it on a timer??


  • #18
    Genghiz Cohen
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,182 ✭✭✭Genghiz Cohen


    ejmaztec wrote: »
    I hope that you don't work in the intensive care department of your local hospital:eek:


    Heh...


  • #19
    connundrum
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,563 ✭✭✭connundrum


    ejmaztec wrote: »
    I hope that you don't work in the intensive care department of your local hospital:eek:

    I'd make sure that all the heaters were dead as doornails. Plugging it out makes it twice as safe. Or at least 1.2337 times safer.


  • #20
    moco
    Registered Users Posts: 972 ✭✭✭moco


    jdivision wrote: »
    Is it on a timer??

    Lol no, I'm not that dopey.


  • #21
    Jesus Wept
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 25,243 ✭✭✭✭Jesus Wept


    moco wrote: »
    Lol no, I'm not that dopey.

    How dopey are you?
    That way we tailor our responses to it.


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  • #22
    bug
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,204 ✭✭✭bug


    Micromark fan heaters have a thermostat.
    I put it to you that it was not off just at constant temperature.


  • #23
    The_Hustler
    Registered Users Posts: 1,191 ✭✭✭The_Hustler


    bug wrote: »
    Micromark fan heaters have a thermostat.
    I put it to you that it was not off just at constant temperature.
    I agree, when I first got my fan heater I used to think it was off and it was as described above, despite being at the furthest setting where it clicks. Turns out the only way to turn it off is to unplug it.


  • #24
    Overheal
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 85,182 ✭✭✭✭Overheal


    Subconcious thing. The other day I woke up to the sound of my friend whispering to me to check my email - but I was 3000 miles away and 5 hours behind...

    And my inbox was empty!

    I'd say you just woke up thinking about the heater cos you were freezing your ass off.


  • #25
    Saint_Mel
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,598 ✭✭✭Saint_Mel


    Not a heater but ... my tv has started switching itself on randomly
    when its left on standby. Was happening in the sitting room tv but
    the other night the tv in my bedroom went on by itself!
    Scared the bejaysus out of me!


  • #26
    Oriel
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 5,154 ✭✭✭Oriel


    Thermostat. But don't tell the tits over at paranormal, they always like to cling onto something for dear life.


  • #27
    L1011
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 69,592 ✭✭✭✭L1011


    Saint_Mel wrote: »
    Not a heater but ... my tv has started switching itself on randomly
    when its left on standby. Was happening in the sitting room tv but
    the other night the tv in my bedroom went on by itself!
    Scared the bejaysus out of me!


    Got Sky? make sure you've no autoview reminders on. Most TV's come out of standby when a "pin 9 high" voltage is sent on the SCART lead from a Sky box.


  • #28
    Saint_Mel
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,598 ✭✭✭Saint_Mel


    MYOB wrote: »
    Got Sky? make sure you've no autoview reminders on. Most TV's come out of standby when a "pin 9 high" voltage is sent on the SCART lead from a Sky box.

    Cheers for that.
    Have Sky on the downstairs telly but not the bedroom.
    1 mytery down, 1 to go! Both are Phillips


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