Plumbing

Megaflow cylinder immersion heater stat setting

Anonymous user 23/02/2024 - 3.32 PM

Hi Folks We have a Megaflow 280l h/w cylinder heated by off peak electricity. Our bills seem way too high so have been logging o/p energy usage over night. It looks as if for normal nightly usage without storage heaters on will be around 5kWh going up to 7kWh or even 9kWh if somebody has a bath. The Megaflow is very well insulated so not much heat is being lost there. The water temperature, however, does seem to be very hot. I have looked at the immersion heater and see that it has an adjustable stat with five positions but no labelling. It was set in the leftmost position so I have moved it back one slot. So far that seems to have made zero difference. My guess is that the slots could be 80 degrees, 70 degrees, 60 degrees, 50 degrees and 40 degrees. Does anybody know if that is right or know a better answer? Thanks Pete Postscript 1/7/20 We have finally received a reply from Baxi with the details: "The thermostat range is 10-70 degrees C. and each setting rises by 15 degrees C. 1 – 10, 2 – 25, 3 – 40, 4 – 55 and 5 – 70" Hope that is useful for other folk. P.