Hi
We recently had a horizontal cylinder installed with a main hot water supply from a gas boiler. The immersion heater was hooked up to a solar panel diverter to utilise excess power generated by the panels. This worked great for the first few months, but suddenly the diverter was reporting a problem with the immersion heater.
After sending the diverter off for testing and three new thermostats the issue was still not resolved, so I eventually convinced the heating engineer that the heating element must be at fault and he replaced it the other day.
The old element was completely burnt out and the engineer said that diverter must be supplying too much power which cause the burn out. During the replacement I noticed that the engineer has rotated the cylinder so that immersion unit is now at the bottom of the tank whereas before it was at the top.
So would the diverter have burnt out the element, as the engineer suggests or would the fact the heating element was near the top of the cylinder (and possibly not submerge) have been the cause?
Thanks
Paul
We recently had a horizontal cylinder installed with a main hot water supply from a gas boiler. The immersion heater was hooked up to a solar panel diverter to utilise excess power generated by the panels. This worked great for the first few months, but suddenly the diverter was reporting a problem with the immersion heater.
After sending the diverter off for testing and three new thermostats the issue was still not resolved, so I eventually convinced the heating engineer that the heating element must be at fault and he replaced it the other day.
The old element was completely burnt out and the engineer said that diverter must be supplying too much power which cause the burn out. During the replacement I noticed that the engineer has rotated the cylinder so that immersion unit is now at the bottom of the tank whereas before it was at the top.
So would the diverter have burnt out the element, as the engineer suggests or would the fact the heating element was near the top of the cylinder (and possibly not submerge) have been the cause?
Thanks
Paul