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controlling the immersion heater

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  • 16-10-2017 5:42pm
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    pjproby
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    Looking to control the immersion heater remotely.When an app says it can control both heating and water, i assume this means that both depend on a single heating source, eg gas or oil?
    i have oil heating and though it can heat the water the immersion is the main source of hot water.


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    Stoner
    Registered Users Posts: 10,952 ✭✭✭✭Stoner


    Are you looking for a device to control you electrical immersion?

    If so check my post on the WiFi spur unit


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    pjproby
    Registered Users Posts: 842 ✭✭✭pjproby


    thanks have you a link?


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    Shlippery
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    pjproby wrote: »
    thanks have you a link?

    http://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showthread.php?p=104541361

    Was curious about this myself!


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    Stoner
    Registered Users Posts: 10,952 ✭✭✭✭Stoner


    I know phibsboro electric have them. I bought one to see how it operated.

    Note selection between sink and bath is not possible


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    DublinDilbert
    Registered Users Posts: 5,379 ✭✭✭DublinDilbert


    Stoner wrote: »
    I know phibsboro electric have them. I bought one to see how it operated.

    Note selection between sink and bath is not possible

    Roughly how much from PEW?


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    the merchant
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    I'm open to correction here but aren't immersion circuits 40amp?


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    DublinDilbert
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    the merchant wrote: »
    I'm open to correction here but aren't immersion circuits 40amp?

    No usually 16A or around 3.5KW. I wouldn't put the above device on an immersion as its designed for 13A Max.

    I would put it on the heating system no problems, looks quite good. Also many heating systems have a fused spur anyway supplying them so it would be a direct swap over.


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    Stoner
    Registered Users Posts: 10,952 ✭✭✭✭Stoner


    DublinDilbert wrote:
    Roughly how much from PEW?


    I think about 80 ex vat


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    Stoner
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    DublinDilbert wrote:
    No usually 16A or around 3.5KW. I wouldn't put the above device on an immersion as its designed for 13A Max.


    It's rated for 13A the immersion I have a 3KW immersion. I covered that in the thread on it.

    Again I'm happy with that . It is a UK designed device and it's documents mention immersions.

    I'd normally be as fussy. But I checked it out


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    redser7
    Registered Users Posts: 2,730 ✭✭✭redser7


    Stoner wrote: »
    I know phibsboro electric have them. I bought one to see how it operated.

    Note selection between sink and bath is not possible

    Interested to hear how this is going? Presumably it turns on bath if there is no choice? If this replaces the manual switch does it mean you can no longer chose between bath and sink manually?
    Thanks


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    banie01
    Registered Users Posts: 16,797 ✭✭✭✭banie01


    There are multiple options available and everyone will have a preference.
    I have tried 2 options myself.
    1st was a basic Sonoff WiFi switch set to control a contactor switch.
    Worked but was a little inelegant.
    I had a Gen3 nest installed by EI a while back and found out that this has a relay available for on/off control.
    It can't run the full 3 or 3.5kw but it can run the contactor I already had in place, so it was swapping over the wiring from the Sonoff to the Best Heatsink which luckily for me was installed in the hotpress already.

    It keeps the heating and hot water on the 1 app, that's wife friendly ;) as we already used the Nest app for our heating.


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