Are Kyros heaters night storage.. Seem a bit small for nsh.

binao

Friend looking at flat with funny looking Kyros heaters.
Agent said work on off peak.

flashg67

Possibly, but when I was researching electric heating, they seemed to be regular electric radiators

binao

Are they what some peeps have described as expensive magic dust rads

JJ_Egan

Guys in Energy forum may well know more .

coffeehound

You are right and the agent is wrong:  they are not storage heaters, they are standard instant wall heaters

https://rointe.com/uk/radiator/kyros-radiator/

daveyjp

"low consumption technology"

Ask them for details about what this means.  I assume it means they are very low output as thats the only way of having low consumption electric heater.  A 10w radiator is "very low consumption" technology, unfortunately it won't provide much heat.

A 1,000w heater will use 1,000w per hour whether the heater costs £10 or £500.

matelodave

Rointe Kyros are posh fairy oil rather than Fischer magic dust, but are not storage heaters and, as they do not store heat from off-peak electricy and have to use peak rate leccy when they are in use, they have very expensive running costs.

As daveyjp says for the same rating of heater, whether it's £25 from Argos, £500 for Rointe or £1000 from Fischer it will produce the same amount of heat from the same amount of leccy and cost the same amount to run.