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Re: AD10's - Whats the biggest load you're switching?


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  • Subject: Re: AD10's - Whats the biggest load you're switching?
  • From: "derekclydesdale" <derekclydesdale@xxxxxxx>
  • Date: Tue, 12 Mar 2002 14:13:46 -0000
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I've been using one to switch my IH as well.

However, it only gets used in the summer months - so it's probably
only switched a few hundred times.

Keith, what you say about Thermostats is interesting.  One problem I
have is that my immersion produces boiling hot water - ie. almost too
hot to shower under.  There is no obvious thermostat on my tank, and
I was of the opinion that immersion heater elements had no thermostat
and were always on.  I was thinking of buying a "strap-on"
(oops!)
model that fits around the tank, but is there a another way
of "regulating" the immersion element?  Do they have some sort of
setting internally?

Derek

> No. Not yet.
>
> Its turning the load OFF that can cause the problem as the contacts
can arc
> when opening. With an Immersion heater, there is a strong
possibility that
> the load is already off because of its built in thermostat
therefore there
> will be no arcing and it should last for a long time.
>




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