Creda Storage Heaters - Accelerator Resistor

[Baird99999]

Hi all,

I have a pair of storage heaters that my electrician is trying to repair and is having no luck. They work but do not produce enough heater. The instructions suggest that a faulty accelerator resistor may be at fault. We have changed everything else in the heaters. Does anyone know what an accelerator resistor looks like and where it would be on the heaters?

The models are 79142 and 79163.

Thanks

Damion

 

[ProDave]

The accellerator heater just closes the boost flap while it is receiving it's charge overnight.

It's normally only relevant to commercial use, where it's normal to have the boost control turned up to let the heat out in the daytime, with no need to keep the heat in for the evening.

In a domestic environment, you normally turn the boost control down in the day, and turn it up in the evening to let the last of the heat out.

So long as you turn the boost control down before you go to bed, that will have the same effect as the accellerator heater.  Try that first.  If you are still short on heat, then perhaps one element has gone, or the input thermostat is faulty.

The eccellerator heater is just a wire wound ceramic resistor underneath the bimetalic strip that operated the boost flap.

 

[Andy™]

as above.

the heater is wrapped around the bimetalic strip to push the flap down