Burnt Out Storage Heater Elements

[SLIPSHOD & SLAPDASH]

Any one seen burnt out storage heater elements like this ? The second from the left is still working. It may look it from the pic, but there was no water damage. I don't do to many storage heaters, but have never come across this

 

[SPECIAL LOCATION]

Any one seen burnt out storage heater elements like this ?

Short answer...

NO!

:coat

 

[steptoe]

yes, very recently in fact,

I simply put it down to overheating over a prolonged period of time,

that was just what it reminded me off,

everything tested out fine, replaced ALL the elements, even the still working ones and nothing else seemed amiss,

even checked the overheat stat and that seemed fine.

EDIT

perhaps proDave may be able to shed some more info, He seems quite au-fait with storage heaters.

 

[SLIPSHOD & SLAPDASH]

I also thought it may be prolonged overheating. Have been educating the customer its not doing them any favours leaving the heaters on 24/7. I also replaced all 4 elements and it worked fine.

 

[Riggy]

Not that rare to find elements in such a state, though rare to see so many in one heater. I'd guess you'll have a high pfc at the property. A mess like that is usually close to the transformer in my experience.

 

[Marvo]

How old is the storage heater?

 

[kerching]

Had exactly the same just before Xmas.....Creda 18 with 2 elements, one mangled and the other mangled AND in about 8 pieces! 20+ years old

 

[ProDave]

I also thought it may be prolonged overheating. Have been educating the customer its not doing them any favours leaving the heaters on 24/7. I also replaced all 4 elements and it worked fine.

I've seen heaters like that, but never so many.

But what's this about being on 24/7?

Storage heaters are meant to be on for 7 hours overnight, not all day. If you are going to do that you might as well change them for panel heaters

 

[SLIPSHOD & SLAPDASH]

An industrial estate that used to be one big place was divided up into numerous units of various sizes.  The landlord has his own check meters for each unit, all with duel rate meters. All the heating is from storage heaters. Inside each unit is a further time clock (Sangamo with spring reserve) that controls the heaters.  I sometimes think i might as well bang my head on the wall rather than keep trying to educate  a few of the tenants they are only conning themselves by altering the timeclock. They think they are getting cheap daytime electric.  

 

[Sidewinder]

So is that what the inside of a storage heater looks like, or not as the case may be...

 

[Andy™]

seen them like that a few times. usually just a small hole or deformed bit, not usually destroyed as bad as that

 

[boltonsparky]

On 24/7... glad I'm not paying that electricity bill!

 

[utterlyfab]

This may be my problem