Electric Convector Heater - Heat settings -Thermostat

[JohnD]

What do you think I’m using the heater for, one in my living room, other in my bedroom !

The heater’s heat settings do not respond to room temperature and it appears the heat setting operates via a timer rather than temperature.

The higher you turn the knob, the warmer your room will be. The reverse is also true.

 

[Wyleecoyote]

Not expecting too much, expecting how it was described, such as “Adjustable thermostat control with easy-to-use dial” therefore regarding of its cheapness, that’s how it was described when new and although the link I posted is similar to my heaters, my heaters cost considerably more.

If I was to use a plug in thermostat, which plugs into the wall sockets and it is set to switch off power to the heater when a desired room temperature is reached and it’s also set to switch power on, when it detects a level of coldness within the room; therefore, it would effectively be activating the heater in response to the room temperature; unless, like the heater, such a product is described as being thermostatically controlled but isn’t !

 

[Wyleecoyote]

The higher you turn the knob, the warmer your room will be. The reverse is also true.

You appear to be a know it all but have no idea what you’re typing about !

 

[Rodders53]

That control is a thermostat... but it detects the temperature of the air near it (the heat source) not some other place in the room (where you are)...
It's why it switches on / off with the variation in temp of the heater...

and not when you/the room reach a wanted temperature... It can't as the sensor is in the heater not somewhere else in the room!

You are just not understanding how the device works / can work / the laws of physics Jim (as Scotty would say).

 

[Wyleecoyote]

I do understand how the heater is operating and regardless of how warm or hot the room has reached, whilst the heater is plugged in and in use, and on heat setting 2, exactly every 6 minutes, the heater cycles on for a few minutes, then off.

Although, when the heater is turned off and unplugged from the wall outlet, it takes just short of 3 hours, before the warmth of the room has dropped, to feel the need to turn the heater on.

So, you honestly believe, that even when the heater is on and in front of an open patio door, with a outside winter temperature of 4°C, the heater still cycles on every 6 minutes then off, rather than remaining on throughout the entire duration the patio door is open !

Do your own monitoring of your own electric heater before you start stating I don’t understand in such a manner.

If your electric heater operates differently to that of mine, then provide the make and model, and I’ll make enquiries with the manufacturer, to clarify whether the “Adjustable thermostat control and easy-to-use dial” is just that, rather than what I’m currently encountering with my heaters.

 

[jj4091]

You have posted a picture of a heater that works as described by all the posters who have answered your question, but seem not to be able to accept that it operates in the manner described by everyone. Why are you describing hypothetical scenarios for the use of the heater. Obviously the ambient temperature of the location will affect the operation of the thermostat but it will still be the temp of the appliance that determines if it switches on or off. Please tell us the make and model of your heaters that you feel should work in a different manner. Then everyone might be working on the same page. Your post 17 would be the ideal scenario but I suspect that you feel a thermostaically controlled heater should operate the same as the boiler in a central heating system. Well it does, if you have ever observed a gas central heating boiler it will cycle on and off or modulate as the room stat heats up to the set temp.. This is to protect the boiler from overheating by being on too long. Exactly the same protection that the heater stat. provides.

 

[Wyleecoyote]

Yeah I have posted a link of a heater similar to my heaters; although regardless of how described and what others believe, the “Adjustable thermostat control and easy-to-use dial” is not a thermostat which reacts to the warmth of the room it’s heating.
Who wants a heater that reacts to the temperature of the actual heater.

There is no hypothetical scenario, and what I have described is how both my heaters operate and how they are used.

I only discovered the “thermostat” operation whilst a patio door was open, during a cold winters day, and the heater, which was adjacent to the open door, was cycling ON and OFF.

Surely, if the “Adjustable thermostat” was in fact a thermostat, why not detect the coldness from outside, via the open patio door and continuously produce heat without cycling ON and OFF !

Upon closing the patio door and all other doors and windows shut: with the heater on and also on heat setting 2, it continued to cycle ON for 2 minutes then OFF, for exactly 6 mins, repeatedly and continuously.

On heat setting 8, the heater would cycle on for 7 minutes, then cycle off for 2 mins.

Purely to clarify my heater’s operation and in response to your reply; this morning, I placed my heater outside, on an enclosed second floor balcony, when the outside temperature was 2 °C, with my heater set to heat setting 2, it still continued to cycling On and Off every 6 minutes repeatedly.

Why not, especially due to the outside temperature, remain ON continuously.

The other heater, of exactly the same make and model, which initially, this morning, had not been used at all; but despite my living room being a comfortable temperature of 22 °C, when plugged in and set to heat setting 2, that heater also proceeded to cycling On and Off every 6 mins repeatedly, despite the warmth and temperature of the room.

The operation of a gas boiler thermostat is irrelevant as whether gas or electric, the interpretation and definition of a thermostat is the same; a device which regulates temperature, thus it determines and regulates the temperature of its environment.

I don’t need to provide the make and model of my heater for your approval of my understanding of their operation; implying I’m incapable and your knowledge is superior.

I expect a product described with a “Adjustable thermostat control and easy-to-use dial ” as my heaters were and are the heaters within the link; to react to the temperature of the room being heated, and not to cycle On and OFF every few minutes during a 3 hour period when the room has reach the temperature, implied by the Adjustable thermostat; hence, why I bought heaters with an “Adjustable thermostat control” in the first place.

 

[jj4091]

Adjustable thermostat control and easy-to-use dial” is not a thermostat which reacts to the warmth of the room it’s heating.

It's not supposed. That is what everyone is telling you

Surely, if the “Adjustable thermostat” was in fact a thermostat, why not detect the coldness from outside, via the open patio door and continuously produce heat without cycling ON and OFF !

No because it is inside the appliance and probably near to the element controlling the switching of that element

On heat setting 8, the heater would cycle on for 7 minutes, then cycle off for 2 mins.

Again it seems to be working as it should

The operation of a gas boiler thermostat is irrelevant as whether gas or electric, the interpretation and definition of a thermostat is the same; a device which regulates temperature, thus it determines and regulates the temperature of its environment.

Exactly, the room stat IS IN a different envoironment

I expect a product described with a “Adjustable thermostat control and easy-to-use dial ” as my heaters were and are the heaters within the link; to react to the temperature of the room being heated,

Well unfortunately they do not, and I can't really see why you can't accept that but seem determined to carry on a futile argument instead.