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

["Alancc" <alan.cc@xxxxxxx>]

Yes there is a thermostat under the cover, these get stuck on when the
contacts weld together.

Alancc
----- Original Message -----
From: derekclydesdale <derekclydesdale@xxxxxxx>
To: <ukha_d@xxxxxxx>
Sent: Tuesday, March 12, 2002 2:13 PM
Subject: [ukha_d] Re: AD10's - Whats the biggest load you're switching?


> 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.
> >
>