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This video was a real revelation. I like the way this guy explains very difficult subjects clearly.

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I have these and my little bungalow is lovely and warm better then the old storage heaters

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Hello. I’m really confused on how to use this heater. If I’m indoors all weekend as it’s freezing is it cheaper to have it on 8am to 9pm OR at intervals in the day??

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So, what makes the heat retention of these so much better than the older ones? Do they have a lid that screws on and off? What insulation mechanism makes them effective at storing heat when you want them to, then releasing it?

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I turned off the E7 switch in my cupboard but left the switch on next to the storage heater. Somehow overnight I've used over 20kwh! Presumably it still pulls power with just the one switch on?

The vast majority of economy 7 installations will count on the off peak tariff at night on both fuse boards. The only time you will pay day rate at night for the 24hr supply is if there is 2 completely separate meters as well as 2 fuse boards. If its one meter with 2 readings, you will save money using the washing machine at night.

You say that running the washing machine in the Economy7 hours still uses peak rate electricity, but I don't think this is correct. The dual rate meter & the meter timeswitch are before the consumer units, so during Economy7 hours the entire house runs at off-peak rate. I know this is true because my off-peak usage increases even during the summer, when the night storage heaters are all switched off. If I charge my car during the off-peak hours, then the off-peak meter reading increases but the peak meter reading does not.

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Great video. I just got this installed to replace old Dimplex storage heater and I'm struggling with it. How long does it take to heat up the bricks? Do I need to enable off pick heating in the settings? I'm on Economy 7 so have 2 switches: one for day time energy (booster) and another for off pick. My heater was on overnight and it's still cold. Both switches were on. The fan is blowing cold air even when I change temperature to 30C. Is it true that it would take up to 3 days for bricks to heat up? Do I need to have it switched on from 6pm for it to work at all? Thanks.

Hi, could you help me please? I have an economy 7 fuse board just like the one shown at 2:27. There are 4 night storage heaters in the flat, 2 small ones and 2 large ones. When they are charging through the night and during the boost period in the afternoon the fuses for the 2 large heaters get hot. Have you any ideas to what I should do?

Hello, could you please help me? I have a new meter (still an economy 7 - Landis gyr meter 5246C). I also have 2 Dimplex Quantum Heaters, models QM100, and QM150. The Off-peak regime was only turned on for my flat 3 days ago, and on the first night, I made the mistake of switching off the QM150 heater from the 2 small supplies because it didn't produce any heat. The QM100 did accumulate lots of heat overnight (on the off-peak tariff) and started working just fine and has been for 3 days now. The QM150, which I switched on immediately the next morning for the next 2 nights hasn't accumulated any heat at all and is blowing cold air at all times, so I have no idea how to make it work. For the smaller heater, it happened naturally. Please, if you have any advice, I am ready to hear it! Thank you!

Hi,,should the heater swihch and convector heater switch both be turned on 24/7 to work. I have quantum storage heating for the first time ever and have no idea how to use it so my family are currently living in a freezing house. Any help would be appreciated, thanks

Is there any reason these cant run off standard electric sockets and use a tariff that has cheaper off peak electricity? Such as Octopus Go for example?

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Just be aware that the model number is not the width in cm. The 150 for example is 106.9cm wide, not 150cm.

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Slightly out of date now? I have Quantum storage heaters and also a Quantum water heater. Currently on EDF E10 with dual rate non-smart meter. During the cheap times ALL house consumption is at the cheap rate ( both CUs) As my Quantum storage heaters are the earlier non-wifi versions I would like to replace the circuit boards to achieve the (the rest of the units are identical to the later models ??)

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Great video! I was told by everyone that I'd need an economy 7 meter. However, the electrician who installed mine said he had programmed the heater to draw out off peak electricity without the need for an economy 7 meter. Have you come across this before??

I have found no way to save money with a storage heater. You can work out the maths with standard rate, electric heaters only vs storage heaters with economy 7. There is barely any chance for a person to utilize the storage heater in any practical way, which saves them money over using electric power when needed. On top of this storage heaters are huge and expensive, whereas electric heaters are cheap, flat or even just portable. Assuming a property is well maintained, has decent windows/doors and reasonable insulation and humidity control, a small 4-500 square foot home can be heated with an electric heater on the 1 or 2kw settings, depending where you live in the UK. Up north you will almost certainly need 2khw. Currently power is 28p per kwh standard rate vs 36p/21p for econ7 peak/offpeak. If i am a person who comes home at 6 and needs heat until 11pm then i only need 5-10kwh of heat per day. Storage heaters (even the best spec) can charge up to 25kwh of heat, but even still will lose a large chunk before you arrive home at 6. Remember they lose 55% of their heat in the first 24hrs. For a storage heater to be worthwhile, it needs to save you 25% on your heating. This ALSO ignores your more expensive daytime usage. So for you to get 5-10kwh of heat that evening you need to store no more than 6.25-12.5kwh of heat, since 25 will be lost by 6pm that day. So we can tell so far its more expensive already.... You need to store 25% more at least... which kills your off peak energy saving price. And your daytime electricity is going to be more expensive too... If you use 5kw for cooking, washing, electric shower, PC, TV, Gaming you will spend an extra 40p per day on inflated peak rates. --------------------------------- The ONLY scenario where you save money, is where you want to get the absolute most heat to use there and then. Almost like you are fighting to keep yourself freezing to death and need to max out the heat for an entire daytime before charging up again the next. Bear in mind, this would mean storing up 25kwh (£5.25 per day...£187 per month) in winter months, just for heat. Which is an amount of heat very few people in the UK need outside of the extreme regions of Scotland, where they are probably burning logs anyway. ALL of your summer use is inflated, because you are not storing heat then. You are paying over the odds for everything else at peak rates. I literally cannot model any scenario other than one close to above where you are not at home 24/7 fighting for your life to keep warm, anyone who works, sleeps, goes out in the evening does not need 24/7 heat. They need bursts...

💥BE WARNED!!! 💥If you are in receipt of benefits and are absolutely happy with storage heaters within your property and live within a housing association be vary wary if you have the option to have air source heating system installed as you may lose your winter warm home discount and cold weather payments as I have done and I am indeed much worse off than I was with having the night storage heaters as now my property is now deemed as energy efficient which it most certainly is not . I’m registered disabled suffer with COPD and I’ve lost my winter lifeline due to Rishi Sunak’s government so this could be quite possibly my last winter as already I have had to turn my heating off due to the cost of running this air source system as I just can’t afford to keep it running to keep me warm.

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If the insulation was functional in these types of heaters, then they'd make some sense. But it never is, so the whole concept of storage heaters is nonsensical.