Cheers, previous occupants.
The weather will start getting cold soon, and I'd sort of managed to work out how the complicated multi-zone, multi-time-slot electrical storage heating network worked, but with one limitation. I had no idea which zone referred to which room, or indeed how some of the heaters were controlled.
The only control on 3 of them is a single unmarked momentary push button. That's really helpful.
So I thought, how about I take the heaters apart to see what's inside. So I start with the one in the hall way. Front panel comes off easily enough. Then there's another panel inside. That comes off easily too. Then a layer of insulation. Then some bricks. The bricks come out - dunno, what they're made of - but they're about 10 lb each. Then there's a heating element. That comes out. Then some more bricks. They come out. Then there's the back panel. Doh. I've started on one with pure passive controls.
OK, let's try another one. Ah. This looks promising. Pic. But, what do all those switches do. Fortunately, it was easy enough to work out that the first 2 switches represent the zone number in binary - eventually confirmed by tracking down the installation manual, deeply concealed on the manufacturer's web site.
Cliffs
1. Moved home. No manual for electronically controlled heating
2. Try to reverse engineer heating system.
3. Strip 'unintelligent' heater - fail to find electronic brain
4. Strip rest of heaters. Examine brains.
5. ?
6. Profit
The weather will start getting cold soon, and I'd sort of managed to work out how the complicated multi-zone, multi-time-slot electrical storage heating network worked, but with one limitation. I had no idea which zone referred to which room, or indeed how some of the heaters were controlled.
The only control on 3 of them is a single unmarked momentary push button. That's really helpful.
So I thought, how about I take the heaters apart to see what's inside. So I start with the one in the hall way. Front panel comes off easily enough. Then there's another panel inside. That comes off easily too. Then a layer of insulation. Then some bricks. The bricks come out - dunno, what they're made of - but they're about 10 lb each. Then there's a heating element. That comes out. Then some more bricks. They come out. Then there's the back panel. Doh. I've started on one with pure passive controls.
OK, let's try another one. Ah. This looks promising. Pic. But, what do all those switches do. Fortunately, it was easy enough to work out that the first 2 switches represent the zone number in binary - eventually confirmed by tracking down the installation manual, deeply concealed on the manufacturer's web site.
Cliffs
1. Moved home. No manual for electronically controlled heating
2. Try to reverse engineer heating system.
3. Strip 'unintelligent' heater - fail to find electronic brain
4. Strip rest of heaters. Examine brains.
5. ?
6. Profit
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