Baker Steve
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I have read some of rmeldo's threads here from 2008 and wondered if the project was successful. This is a topic dear to me, as I have three old but sound night-storage heaters that are hard to control, and have often thought about automating them. Now that I have a better idea of what PICAXE controllers can do (and can't do), they seem ideal for this.
Electrical heating seems to be coming back into vogue, at least in the UK (although with our power costs it's hard to understand why). There are now at least two commercial ranges that use 'intelligent' controllers, Elonur's Ecombi (Spanish) and Dimplex Quantum (UK?). They are costly, especially the Dimplex ones, so retrofitting a controller to old heaters is appealing. Has anyone tried this?
Electrical heating seems to be coming back into vogue, at least in the UK (although with our power costs it's hard to understand why). There are now at least two commercial ranges that use 'intelligent' controllers, Elonur's Ecombi (Spanish) and Dimplex Quantum (UK?). They are costly, especially the Dimplex ones, so retrofitting a controller to old heaters is appealing. Has anyone tried this?