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Is your heater switched off at the wall switch, if not you will be reading through any other heaters on your E7 system
Faulty Dimplex storage heater.
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One hopes that was not the case, but another, perhaps more likely, thought occurred to me ...
.... The OP has measured the resistances of each of the three elements. If he did so without disconnecting them from one another, he would, of course, not only get answers identical for all the (in parallel) elements, but would also get an answer that was a third of the resistance of one element.
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ooh Ah!
If it is a fuse, 'thermal cutout' or something like that, then very much so - but it would mean that electricity was not getting to the elements, and (maybe I'm wrong), I thought you had confirmed that electricity had got to the elements.
Does the legend of the diagram not indicate what #8 is? If not, what markings (if any) are on it.
Of course, if that item is a protective device which has 'failed', that may well be for 'a good reason' - so there could be other problems as well.
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Wherever you got the diagram from, there should be a parts list that identifies what it is.
But looking at the shape of it, i think it is an accelerator resistor. One of these http://www.storageheater.co.uk/dimpex/xl-xt/xl/dimplex-xl12/accelerator-resistor.html
But if that is gone how can you possibly have been able to state
And no way to delete the thumbnail even though I edited the post where the image was inline, and took it out of there.
Update: swapped the 3 heating elements with the 3 from a working heater, It still works and the problem one still doesnt. Just to check for future reference I used the multimeter in the 0 - 200ohms range and all 6 elements had a reading in the 8ohm region.
Baffled.
Baffled.
If you mean that each element measured about 8Ω when measured separately (and disconnected), then there must surely be something wrong with your meter or the way you are using it. Even allowing for the fact that the resistance would rise a bit when it got hot, an 8Ω element would be about 5-6kW, which would make no sense.
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