I fitted a Dimplex Quantum heater!

tracytcb

danrv 

Good to know. Just wondering if you’ve decided to keep it now.

Yes. My old one is in a bit is disrepair anyway since dismantling it. Maybe had another couple of years life in it.

But since the lady at Dimplex explained it, it all now makes sense. I was just used to the old fashioned manual control ones. Had no idea they changed all the regulations in 2018. So any new ones will work the same.

danrv

tracytcb said:

danrv 

Good to know. Just wondering if you’ve decided to keep it now.

Yes. My old one is in a bit is disrepair anyway since dismantling it. Maybe had another couple of years life in it.

But since the lady at Dimplex explained it, it all now makes sense. I was just used to the old fashioned manual control ones. Had no idea they changed all the regulations in 2018. So any new ones will work the same.

Thanks. So no problems retaining heat until late evening? Charging probably stops around 7.30am.
The Unidare conveniently stops charging at 3.40pm due to the neglected timeswitch. This controls the meter so E10 hours and charging coincide.

tracytcb

danrv said:

Thanks. So no problems retaining heat until late evening? Charging probably stops around 7.30am.
The Unidare conveniently stops charging at 3.40pm due to the neglected timeswitch. This controls the meter so E10 hours and charging coincide.

Well I put it on Out All Day last night. Came on at 7 for an hour or so. Not really any heat left in it tonight. May have to leave it on home all day for it to store enough heat. Though I am still monitoring it and experimenting with settings. 

I have Economy 7. Starts charging at 00:17 and goes off at 07:17. 

paulhgc

tracytcb said:

danrv said:

Thanks. So no problems retaining heat until late evening? Charging probably stops around 7.30am.
The Unidare conveniently stops charging at 3.40pm due to the neglected timeswitch. This controls the meter so E10 hours and charging coincide.

Well I put it on Out All Day last night. Came on at 7 for an hour or so. Not really any heat left in it tonight. May have to leave it on home all day for it to store enough heat. Though I am still monitoring it and experimenting with settings. 

I have Economy 7. Starts charging at 00:17 and goes off at 07:17. 

you can also add extra boost 

tracytcb

paulhgc said:

tracytcb said:

Well I put it on Out All Day last night. Came on at 7 for an hour or so. Not really any heat left in it tonight. May have to leave it on home all day for it to store enough heat. Though I am still monitoring it and experimenting with settings. 

I have Economy 7. Starts charging at 00:17 and goes off at 07:17. 

you can also add extra boost 

Yes but that costs a lot more peak time pennies. 

paulhgc

tracytcb said:

paulhgc said:

tracytcb said:

Well I put it on Out All Day last night. Came on at 7 for an hour or so. Not really any heat left in it tonight. May have to leave it on home all day for it to store enough heat. Though I am still monitoring it and experimenting with settings. 

I have Economy 7. Starts charging at 00:17 and goes off at 07:17. 

you can also add extra boost 

Yes but that costs a lot more peak time pennies. 

tracytcb said:

paulhgc said:

tracytcb said:

Well I put it on Out All Day last night. Came on at 7 for an hour or so. Not really any heat left in it tonight. May have to leave it on home all day for it to store enough heat. Though I am still monitoring it and experimenting with settings. 

I have Economy 7. Starts charging at 00:17 and goes off at 07:17. 

you can also add extra boost 

Yes but that costs a lot more peak time pennies. 

no you boost it overnight 

tracytcb

paulhgc said:

tracytcb said:

paulhgc said:

tracytcb said:

Well I put it on Out All Day last night. Came on at 7 for an hour or so. Not really any heat left in it tonight. May have to leave it on home all day for it to store enough heat. Though I am still monitoring it and experimenting with settings. 

I have Economy 7. Starts charging at 00:17 and goes off at 07:17. 

you can also add extra boost 

Yes but that costs a lot more peak time pennies. 

tracytcb said:

paulhgc said:

tracytcb said:

Well I put it on Out All Day last night. Came on at 7 for an hour or so. Not really any heat left in it tonight. May have to leave it on home all day for it to store enough heat. Though I am still monitoring it and experimenting with settings. 

I have Economy 7. Starts charging at 00:17 and goes off at 07:17. 

you can also add extra boost 

Yes but that costs a lot more peak time pennies. 

no you boost it overnight 

Can't do that on Economy 7. Night time rate is 7 hours and no longer. My off peak feed clicks on at 00:17  and off at 07:17 so cannot be extended beyond that. 

See a previous comment in this thread regarding this issue that someone is trying to bring up with Dimplex. 

danrv

Casp55 said:

I will now tell you about the only problem I have found, but this may not be such a big deal to some people, because if they are working and the heater is set at "out all day" then they are unlikely to ever need to use the feature.

Because I am home all day I have found on very cold days the heater has used well over 50% of its stored energy by 6.pm. Although the heater does manage to keep the place warm until 11.pm you can see that it is struggling, because the fan will run the entire evening, where during the day it will cut in and out. When I bought these heaters that was not a concern to me, because it said in the instruction manual that you could have the heater take on an extra charge during the night of between 1-4 hours to compensate for this. However, I have found this is not true. I have set my heaters to take on the full extra 4 hours of charge but it makes no difference. I have spoken to the Dimplex technical guys and they have told me that the heaters can only take on an extra charge if the off peak tariff allows it. Of course with Economy7 this is not the case, but they do not mention this in the user manual. A false stament and very misleading.

Yes, this is it here.
I have the extra hours with Economy 10 and it’s in one block. I would keep this tariff if unit cost was the same as E7 and there was more choice.
Agree that the manual should state the extra boost charge can only be used with E10 (3 hrs extra).
Would have thought though that the normal 7 hour period would be enough with a bit of setting up.
I think the Quantum fully charges in around five hours.

tracytcb

danrv said:

Casp55 said:

I will now tell you about the only problem I have found, but this may not be such a big deal to some people, because if they are working and the heater is set at "out all day" then they are unlikely to ever need to use the feature.

Because I am home all day I have found on very cold days the heater has used well over 50% of its stored energy by 6.pm. Although the heater does manage to keep the place warm until 11.pm you can see that it is struggling, because the fan will run the entire evening, where during the day it will cut in and out. When I bought these heaters that was not a concern to me, because it said in the instruction manual that you could have the heater take on an extra charge during the night of between 1-4 hours to compensate for this. However, I have found this is not true. I have set my heaters to take on the full extra 4 hours of charge but it makes no difference. I have spoken to the Dimplex technical guys and they have told me that the heaters can only take on an extra charge if the off peak tariff allows it. Of course with Economy7 this is not the case, but they do not mention this in the user manual. A false stament and very misleading.

Yes, this is it here.
I have the extra hours with Economy 10 and it’s in one block. I would keep this tariff if unit cost was the same as E7 and there was more choice.
Agree that the manual should state the extra boost charge can only be used with E10 (3 hrs extra).
Would have thought though that the normal 7 hour period would be enough with a bit of setting up.
I think the Quantum fully charges in around five hours.

It is enough. But it only full charges, it seems, if you tell it you will be home all day. 

It will only charge enough overnight for what you tell it you want the next day. 

So if you say you will be out all day it comes on for an hour or so around 7 and then a few hours at 5 30 pm (you can change those times if you want). So the night before it will only charge enough for that amount of output the next day. However, that didn't seem enough for today. 

Set it on Home all day and t gets a full charge.

Set it to say that you don't want it on at all the next day and it takes no charge at all overnight.

RelievedSheff

It all sounds rather complicated. How are you supposed to predict how much heat you are going to need the next day?