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The
low-cost heating system for heating tiles or for taking the chill off
the bathroom, kitchen, children's rooms or conservatory
(frost
protection) with German brand name thermostat from Eberle
Floor
heating for stone floors, tiles, parquet or e.g. even beneath dry
floors for renovation of old buildings!
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heating mats
for your own particular use - quickly and simply:
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heating: Which floor thermostat:
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Poor thermal insulation? Good thermal insulation?
Which is the right thermostat? Flush or surface mounted - with timer
switch?
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Is the floor heating to be used for
heating or only for taking the chill off the floor?
Anti-chill:
If the floor heating is to be used primarily for heating, do not try to
save money by reducing the area of floor to be fitted.
As an anti-chill measure, though, you really only need to heat the
area where you actually stand or sit.
In this case you can be very economical with the space to be fitted,
e.g. only beneath the dining table.
Heating:
For heating, even a very small area can provide sufficient power to
heat the room, e.g. a red-hot hot-plate.
But of course nobody would want to walk on it!
But the greater the heating area, the more the temperature level can be
reduced.
Explanation:
If a living space measuring 40mē is to be heated and 1200
Watts of heating power are required, this can be achieved, as we
already mentioned using a red-hot hot
plate, or by means of 10mē of floor heating.
The ?temperature of this area heating would then need to be
12 C° above the room temperature.
( Explanation: if
1mē of
floor is 1°C warmer than the room it is in, 10 Watts/°C are given off
into
the room. In our case, 10 mē x 10 Watts per degree Celsius x 12 °C
warmer than the room itself means 1200 Watts of total heating power)
12°C above the room temperature of 22 °C yields a floor surface temperature of
34°C. This
would be unpleasantly warm, but would be sufficient to heat the room.
Measure:
By increasing the heated area to 20mē, you could
reduce the amount by which the temperature of the floor needs to be
higher than that of the room to 6°C.
The floor would then only have
a temperature of 28°C.
Further
measure:
By increasing the heated surface to 30mē, you could even reduce
the amount by which the temperature of the floor needs to be higher
than that of the room to 4°C.
The floor would then only have
a temperature of 26°C.
By increasing the heated surface to
40mē, i.e. the entire room has floor heating fitted, you could
reduce the amount by which the temperature of the floor needs to be
higher than that of the room to 3°C.
The floor would then only have a
temperature of 25°C.
Positive
effect:
This is where the "self-regulation
effect" of the floor heating
comes into play. We are not
talking here about the regulation of the
electronic floor thermostat, but about the self-regulation of
the
floor itself.
Explanation:
If the room is heated e.g. to 24-25°C
due to sunshine, then the room has a temperature of 25°C and so
does the floor, meaning that the 40 mē floor heating then stops
releasing heat into the room.
It limits
itself due to the large area and the lower temperature.
The smaller heated areas of 30
mē, or
20 mē or even 10 mē would, as a result of the higher temperate
unnecessarily continue to emit heat and therefore carry on heating
the room.
Even if there was a temperature of 25°C in
the room, the red-hot hot plate would continue to heat the room at the
full heating output of 1200 Watt.
Laminate floor heating
The advantage with the foil
lined under-laminate
floor heating mat AL-Twin is that it is not stuck to the screed floor with
flexible tile adhesive.
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There is no need for this procedure!
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The
heat is channelled away from the cable by the lining through the
laminate floor to the surface - after all the idea is to heat the
entire area!
The decking structure with the AL-Twin laminate floor
heating is as follows: the impact sound insulation is laid on the
subfloor, then the AL-Twin laminate floor heating, and directly on top
of this the panels of the click laminate flooring.
The laminate floor heating mat is laid directly
on the impact sound insulation with no flexible adhesive!
The impact sound insulation comes on 2-3mm foam rolls with silver or
gold lining.
The 1mm heating cable of the AL-Twin heating mat embeds comfortably
into the soft foam insulation material.
In the case of "hard" types of impact sound
insulation in which the AL-Twin heating cable cannot embed itself, the entire weight applied to the floor is transmitted to the
heating cable!
In laminate underfloor heating the floor sensor is not applied to the
subfloor as with the cable
heating
mat, rather it is laid directly on the impact sound insulation to
measure the temperature directly beneath the laminate flooring. On the
subfloor it would be thermally insulated by the impact sound insulation.
Both the floor sensor and also the power line can expand by a number of
mm, meaning that a hollow must be made beneath the impact sound
insulation in the subfloor - a space where the floor sensor can press
through the impact sound insulation
preventing the load from the floor from impacting on the floor.
The recommended thermostat here is
the SDRON 100 as this has a sensor head with a diameter of 3mm.
Ideally,
this 3mm sensor head can embed itself into the impact sound insulation
(2-3mm soft foam roll) beneath the heating mat without the need for a
hollow tube!
With larger floor heating areas
the heating mats end up even beneath
furniture and cupboards which would normally not be
necessary.
On the other hand this furniture also "claims" its percentage of the room's heat. It is therefore impossible
to avoid heating up all the cupboards and furniture in the room.
Either the cupboards gain their heat via
their doors from the air in the room, thereby cooling down
the room particularly when the cupboards are against outside walls.
Or they gain their heat
directly from below through the floor and no longer extract
any from
the room itself.
There is no need to fear any excessive build-up of heat as the length
of time required for floor heating means that the heat has time to
penetrate through the furniture.
What power mats does the heated area need?
If the heating
areas have been defined
generously in a room, it is easy to exceed the maximum switching capacity of the floor heating
thermostat, especially if the higher power heating mats of 160 Watt/mē or even 200 Watt/mēare
used.
To solve this problem it is possible to
use a lower power version of
the heating mat, e.g. 120 Watt/mē.
120 Watt/mē is certainly sufficient for
heating or for taking the chill off the floor, and this allows you to increase the maximum area for fitting
the heating mats without having to use a "power relay".
The 120 Watt/mē
heating mats can, if required, heat the floor up to 12°C higher than
the temperature of the room; they then release their maximum heating
output of 120 Watt/mē into the room.
In the warm-up
phase the lower-power heating
mat of only 120 Watt/mē naturally heats up the floor a little slower.
This is also an advantage
because, in the long-term, this reduces
the switching frequency of the floor thermostat, which in turn increases its active life.
But if this power
limitation measure is not sufficient and the size of the
heated area requires more switching power than the thermostat can
deliver, then a power relay
can (or must) be used.
This means that the switching impulse (heating current)
of the floor thermostat is
not switched to the heating mats in the floor, but back to the sub-distribution in
which the power protection or power relay uses the switching impulse of
the floor thermostat to switch
directly from the sub-distribution to the heating mats.
If this measure is necessary a higher power heating mat can
then be used, e.g. 160 Watt/Mē
instead of 120 Watt/mē.
If the switching impulse of the floor
thermostat cannot be fed back into the
sub-distributor because
e.g. no more leads can be laid or because no chases for installation
cables can be laid, there is the thumb-size relay with 16A switched
current which,
if needed, can fit in the 100mm by 100mm connection box
where
the heating mats are connected in parallel.
How quickly
do the heating mats warm a tiled floor?
The following table
shows how long it takes to warm up the rooms with different thicknesses
of flooring and different heating power ratings:
1°C increase in temperature in
minutes:
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Floor thickness: |
Dry floor 2 cm |
Thin flooring 3 cm |
Normal thickness 4 cm |
Normal thickness 5 cm |
Thick flooring 6 cm |
Storage flooring 8 cm |
Storage flooring 10 cm |
Flooring on base concrete 15 cm |
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120 Watt/mē |
5.5 min |
8.3 min |
11.1 min |
13.8 min |
16.6 min |
22.2 min |
27.7 min |
41.6 min |
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160 Watt/mē |
4.1 min |
6.2 min |
8.3 min |
10.4 min |
12.5 min |
16.6 min |
20.8 min |
31.2 min |
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200 Watt/mē |
3.3 min |
5 min |
6.6 min |
8.3 min |
10 min |
13.3 min |
16.6 min |
25 min |
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250 Watt/mē |
2.6 min |
4 min |
5.3 min |
6.6 min |
8 min |
10.8 min |
13.3 min |
20.0 min |
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300 Watt/mē |
2.2 min |
3.3 min |
4.4 min |
5.5 min |
6.6 min |
8.8 min |
11.1 min |
16.6 min |
The
figures given in the table only refer to the heating of the flooring
surface itself. The fact that heat is lost into the room during the
heating period itself is not taken into consideration.
If this is to be factored in, roughly 20 - 30% must be
added to the time.
Colour limitations:
Not permitted, possible with
restrictions, possible,
no restrictions.
Selection of heating mat types:
There are two types of heating mat. (both are screened
- jacketed with protective mesh!!)
Single type - one heating wire in the heating cable, 2x one
connection lead at each end.
FH 160W/mē & 100W/mē,
WTS 150W/mē & 200W/mē,
TFS 160W/mē & 200W/mē,
WTN 120W/mē,
Cotton mesh or reinforced glass-fibre fabric
There are two basic types of
heating mat; those in which the heating wire is woven onto a
coarse-mesh cotton fabric and those in
which the heating wire is
applied
to a reinforced glass-fibre fabric.
The advantage of the cotton
type, e.g ( TFS 160-200 Watt/mē ,
WTN 120-160 Watt/mē, WTL 160 Watt/mē ) is that
it is flexible.
This means that the heating mat can be compressed lengthways to create
an intermediate length.
For example, a heating mat of 7 metres
in total
length is required, but no 7m long heating mats are produced. They are
either
3mē, offering 6 metres in length, or 4mē giving 8 metres, but not 7
metres.
The cotton mesh heating mats can
only be compressed evenly, by up to as much as 20% if
required.
In this way an 8 metre-long mat can be compressed to form a 7m heating
mat. The heating wires are then no longer 6cm apart; this distance is
now reduced to 5.5cm. The heating mats can also be slightly skewed diagonally e.g. to
circumvent a wall projection.
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Twin type - One feed heating wire and a second return wire
in the heating cable, 1x two connection leads at each end.
FH-Twin 160W/mē,
Raychem FH-Twin 160W/mē
AEG TBS TB 160W/mē
WT-Twin 150W/mē & 200W/mē,
TFR 300W/mē outdoor
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The "single heating mats" have one heating wire in the heating cable which winds through from the beginning to the end of the heating mat.
There is a 3-4m PTC resistor connection cable at each end of the heating mat, i.e. both ends need to be connected.
Take the example of a rectangular room with the door on one of
the longer walls, and the thermostat is to be mounted next to the light
switch.
In this case, if the heating mats are laid in strips perpendicular to
this wall
resulting in an even number of strips, the
other end with its connection lead is on
the same wall as where you began.
It is then no trouble to feed the connection leads from both ends of
the single-type to the thermostat.
If the 4m PTC resistor connection cable
is not long enough, it would be possible,
although laborious, to lengthen this PTC
resistor connection cable (it can also be
shortened).
You are provided with sufficient lengths of cabling. The "heating
cable" can simply be detached from the heating mat and used as an
extension.
You sacrifice 6-15cm of the heating mat
and gain an additional 1-2m for extension
purposes.
This is of course heating cable and must then also be stuck to the
screed floor or subfloor (flexible tile adhesive).
In the case of the "Twin-Type"
the heating wire winds through the heating cable from the start to the
end of the heating mat, reversing at the end of the heating mat and
returning to the start, meaning that only one end of the heating mat
needs to be connected.
Twice the length of heating wire is
incorporated in a twin-type as in a single-type (from
beginning to end and back again).
This is why a twin-type is more expensive than a single-type.
In the WT-S and WT-Twin the
heating cable is fastened with double-sided adhesive tape to the fibre
glass mesh. If you wish to use the self-adhesive
underside as a laying aid, the protective strips need to be
removed from the double-sided adhesive tape.
However it is also possible to simply roll the WT
or WT-Twin into position without
making use of the self-adhesive effect.
In the WT-S and WT-Twin
the
heating cable is fastened with double-sided adhesive tape to the fibre
glass mesh. If you wish to use the self-adhesive
underside as a laying aid, the protective strips need to be
removed from the double-sided adhesive tape.
The WTR-Twin
is available with 300Watt /mē
at very low heating cable distance of only 45mm (high comfort)!
Use only at thick concrete floor!
The Raychem-FH-Twin is
also self-adhesive and can be used as a
laying aid when trowelling etc.
In the case of the FH or FH-Twin
the heating cable is stitched onto the fibre glass mesh along the
entire length.
The fibre glass carrier mesh is completely self-adhesive on one side to
help laying when trowelling etc.
The FH and FH-Twin with stitched on heating cable.
In the case of the TFS WTN WT3L and
AEG TBS TB the heating cables are stitched into the fabric
carrier mesh, the length of which can be
gathered in.
The AEG TBS TB also has
self-adhesive fabric carrier mesh as a laying aid when laying in
flexible adhesive.
The phenomenon of electromagnetism
must also be taken into account.
It is not known precisely how sensitive humans are to electrical or
magnetic fields.
It is possible, however, that this aspect has been underestimated.
All heating mats are screened, i.e. they
are surrounded by a protective wire mesh
similar to that used in a TV coaxial cable.
This screens in particular the electric field.
In the case of "Twin heating mats"
in which the heating current is fed into the system in one wire in the
heating cable and is returned in a second wire, the magnetic fields
also cancel each other out, meaning that the twin
heating mat is electromagnetically neutral.
Construction thickness of the
heating mat
Cotton mesh or reinforced glass-fibre fabric
There are two basic types of heating mat; those in which the heating wire is woven onto a coarse-mesh cotton fabric and those in which the heating wire is applied to a reinforced glass-fibre fabric.
The advantage of the cotton type, e.g ( TFS 160-200 Watt/mē , WTN 120-160 Watt/mē, WTL 160 Watt/mē ) is that it is flexible. This means that the heating mat can be compressed lengthways to create an intermediate length.
For example, a heating mat of 7 metres in total length is required,
but no 7m long heating mats are produced. They are either 3mē, offering
6 metres in length, or 4mē giving 8 metres, but not 7 metres.
The cotton mesh heating mats can only be
compressed evenly, by up to as much as 20% if required.
In
this way an 8 metre-long mat can be compressed to form a 7m heating
mat. The heating wires are then no longer 6cm apart; this distance is
now reduced to 5.5cm. The heating mats can also be slightly skewed diagonally e.g. to circumvent a
wall projection.
The other type of heating mats, types FH
160 Watt/mē and FH-T 160 Watt/m and types
WT-S 150 Watt/mē and WT-T 150 Watt/mēare
applied to reinforced glass-fibre mesh. This has the
advantage that these heating mats are very
flat meaning that they lie very
low on the floor. The FH1 & WT-S version is only 2mm high, whereas
type FH-T, WT-Twin is only
2.5mm high.
The FH version is only 2,7mm high, whereas type FH-T is
only 2.9mm high.
This is an advantage if, when
renovating older buildings, the doors are already installed and the the amount of available height is restricted.
However, as a result of the "inflexible" glass fibre mesh it is not possible to skew types FH, ST-W, FH-Twin and WT-Twin diagonally or to compress it.
The cotton mesh versions come in the following thicknesses ( TFS 160-200
Watt/mē 3.5mm, WTN 120-160 Watt/mē 2.8mm, WTL 160 Watt/mē
3mm)
A further
difference in
the heating mat types is the type of current feed:
There are heating mats with cold lead connection cables (4m) at
each end of the heating mat(
TFS 160-200 Watt/mē, WTN 120-160 Watt/mē, FH 160 Watt/mē), and others in which all the
connection cables are attached
on one side of the heating mat ( WTL 160 Watt/mē FH-Twin 160 Watt/mē) .
With heating mats in which all the connection leads are attached on one
side, you
do not need to worry where the
other end
of the heating mat ends up in the room for trailing back the
other
connection leads.
These heating mats with only one
connection lead, in which the heating
current in the heating cable runs backwards and forwards, are also
magnetically neutral, as the two
currents running in opposing directions cancel
the opposing magnetic field out.
The electrical field
in all heating mats is shielded by the
protective wire mesh.
To heat the conservatory (or simply take
the chill off the floor), take advantage
of the fact that heating mats of different power levels can be
fitted.
Because despite the good thermal insulation properties of modern
windows and facade elements with k-values of 1.1 or above, the air cools on contact with the colder glass
surfaces, and then falls to the floor
of the conservatory towards the back wall of the house where it
rises again. The result is a draught, and
unpleasant swirling of the
air in the room.
This stream of air from the
windows cools the front section of the heated floor but not the rear
section, where the heating warms the air back up.
This warm air then rises on reaching the wall of the house and warms
the wall.
The entire swirling effect is amplified by the floor temperature
differences in the different parts of the conservatory and the heated
house wall.
To counteract
this effect it is possible to fit a 200 Watt/mē heating mat near to the
windows and to fit only a 160 Watt/mē mat in the inner and
central areas resulting in the
200 Watt/mē heating mat heating the outer area several degrees higher than
closer to the house.
A type of "thermal
curtain" is formed which counteracts the effect of the downflow
of cooler air.
The same effect can be obtained if 120 Watt/mē mats are fitted in the
central area and 160 Watt/mē mats around the outside. The crucial
factor here is that the floor around the edge should be several degrees
warmer than in the middle.
Exception: if there is a radiator or fireplace in the conservatory
this is then the defining heating element in the conservatory and the
countermeasure of floor areas being heated to different temperatures no
longer functions then.
The heated air then rises above the fireplace/radiator.
Which is the right floor
thermostat?
In terms of electronic floor heating
thermostats we distinguish between
- embedded types Eberle Thermostat EB 535, EB F2A,EB F2T, EB 512
;OJ OTN, OCC2D2 Raychem TC & TA SDRON 100, DRON-O-SOL
16A( built into the wall
in an embedded junction box) and
- mounted types EB Easy 3ft, EB 531 (fitted to the
wall with
no recess).
- We also
distinguish between thermostats
with a timer switch (daily timer EB Easy 3ft, daily and weekly
timer EB 535, EB 512, OJ OCC2D2)Raychem TC & TA SDRON 100, DRON-O-SOL
16A and those
- with no timer (only
for switching on and off and for setting the temperature EB F2A, F2T,
EB 531, OJ OTN)
The floor thermostat Eberle EB Easy 3ft with
daily timer has a 360° time
disc with 48 "switch riders" which can be set using a finger
nail, ensuring that the same
switching pattern is kept to every day. The Easy 3ft thermostat
has a 3-way switch: 1. On, 2. Off, 3. Timer.
The two Eberle thermostats EB 512 and EB 535, OCC2D2
Raychem TC SDRON or DRO-O-SOL
have a daily/weekly program
with multiple on/off switching times per day.
There are pre-programmed switching times and also individually
definable switching programs; the EB 646 Instat 8 has a "self-learning heating curve".
This means
that if on one day the EB 535 has not
reached the
desired floor temperature of e.g. 27°C at the required time of 6.00 and
has to heat up for 5 minutes longer to
reach 27°C, on the following day it
would begin 5 minutes earlier to reach the required floor
temperature punctually at 6.00.
If the EB 535 Instat 8 reaches the required floor temperature 2 minutes
earlier on the next day, the thermostat would switch on 2 minutes later
the following day.
The EB 535 Instat 8 can
also be switched from floor temperature regulation to room temperature regulation,
as the EB 535 Instat 8 has a second temperature sensor; the floor
sensor would then only function as a floor limiter. The default setting
is floor temperature regulation.
Depending on the power of the heating
mat only
a limited area of heating mats can be controlled by one floor
thermostat. If the maximum switching power
of the floor thermostat is exceeded, either the power of the heating mat can be reduced
from 200 Watt/mē to 160 Watt/mē or 120 Watt/mē or an additional
relay can be used
mounted types!
R34 16A 3600W At 120 Watt/mē 30mē possible
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Simplicity itself: but switches a
powerful 16 Amps simply set the temperature turn on or off EB 52531  At 120 Watt/mē 30mē possible
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Simple operation: Daily timer thermostat
with switch rider simply set the temperature and turn on or off, or use the timer EB EASY 3 ft 16A 3600W  At 120 Watt/mē 30mē possible
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easy embedded types!
| Easy operation: simply set the temperature and turn on or off TA RaychemT2 FloorTemp Plus° Comfort Thermostat for floor heatingRaychem T2 TA 13A 3000 W At 13 Amps, only smaller areas are possible.
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Simple operation:
At 120 Watt/mē 30mē possible
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Simple operation: simply set the temperature and turn on or off EB F2T &Timer Function
EB F2T thermostat with timer for electric under floor heating and anti-chill systems. The floor temperature is measured by the NTC sensor and regulated by means of the EB F2T electronic thermostat. The sensor of the thermostat is laid in the floor beneath the heating wires in the sensor protection tube, directly beneath the heating layer. The floor temperature can be set on the thermostat to meet your personal requirements and those of the particular room (living room or bathroom) .At 120 Watt/mē 30mē possible
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| Simple operation: simply set the temperature and turn on or off OJ OTN
At 16 Amps, only smaller areas are possible. OTN floor thermostat * Electronic floor thermostat *Type of protection: IP 21 (suitable for bathroom) *Setting range: +5/+40 °C * Measurement voltage: 230 V/50 Hz *switched current: 14 A * max. connected load: 3200 W * With 2-pole ON/OFF switch * Night-time reduction -5 K, possible with separate clock * Isolated output (relay: 16 A) * Dimensions: 80 x 80 x 48 mm * Assembly type: flush-fit * NTC floor sensor (diameter: 6 mm) with 3 m connecting lead * Certificate: DEMKO,CE * To match switch ranges:
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Simple operation: simply set the temperature and turn on or off TēFLOORTEMP
TēFloorTemp thermostat for electrical under floor heating and undertile heating systems or room temperature thermostat for electrical floor heating The floor temperature is measured by the NTC sensor and regulated by means of the TēFloorTemp electronic thermostat. The sensor of the thermostat is laid in the floor beneath the heating wires in the sensor protection tube, directly beneath the heating layer. The floor temperature can be set on the thermostat to meet your personal requirements and those of the particular room (living room or bathroom) .At 120 Watt/mē 30mē possible
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embedded types !
digital daily/weekly program
with multiple on/off switching times per day, selflearning!!
| The low-cost all-rounder from AEG: Daily/weekly timer (programs) With the advantage of being able to switch from floor to room temperature thermostat (floor temperature limited to programmed value) Wide range of settings available! AEG FRTD 902 all in one At 16 Amps, only smaller areas are possible. At 120 Watt/mē 30mē possible At 160 Watt/mē 22mēpossible At 200 Watt/mē 18mē possible Larger areas possible with power protection!
You get 2 devices in a
single unit (only AEG)
The default setting is floor
temperature regulation!! Wide range of setting options, please read carefully! Features:
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The low-cost all-rounder only from Soldron: Daily/weekly timer switch (programs) With the advantage of being able to switch from floor to room temperature thermostat (floor temperature limited to programmed value) Wide range of settings available! OJ OCC2 OCD2 1999  At 16 Amps, only smaller areas are possible. At 120 Watt/mē 30mē possible At 160 Watt/mē 22mēpossible At 200 Watt/mē 18mē possible Larger areas possible with power protection!
You get 2 devices in a
single unit (only available from Soldron)
The default setting is floor
temperature regulation!! Wide range of setting options, please read carefully! Features:
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The low-cost all-rounder: Daily/weekly timer switch (programs) With the advantage of being able to switch from floor to room temperature thermostat (floor temperature limited to programmed value) Wide range of settings available! TC RaychemT2 DigiTemp PLUS° Timer Thermostat for floor heatingRaychem T2 TC 
At 13 Amps, only smaller areas are possible.
Wide range of setting options, please read carefully! Features:
to match switch range:
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| The low-cost all-rounder: Daily/weekly timer (programs) With the advantage of being able to switch from floor to room temperature thermostat (floor temperature limited to programmed value) Wide range of settings available! EB 52535 INSTAT8 10A 2400W  At 8/10 Amps, only smaller areas are possible. Wide range of setting options, please read carefully! Features:
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The low-cost all-rounder: extra thinn sensor only 3mm perfect at laminat heating Daily/weekly timer (programs) With the advantage of being able to switch from floor to room temperature thermostat (floor temperature limited to programmed value) Wide range of settings available! S-DRON 100  At 16 Amps, only smaller areas are possible. At 120 Watt/mē 30mē possible At 160 Watt/mē 22mēpossible At 200 Watt/mē 18mē possible Larger areas possible with power protection!
You get 2 devices in a
single unit Ideal for
Wide range of setting options, please read carefully! Features:
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You get 2 devices in a
single unit
Wide range of setting options, please read carefully! Features:
Tech Data, DRON-O-SOL: |
The low-cost all-rounder: Daily/weekly timer switch (programs) With the advantage of being able to switch from floor to room temperature thermostat (floor temperature limited to programmed value) Wide range of settings available! Alre 130  At 16 Amps, only smaller areas are possible. At 120 Watt/mē 30mē possible At 160 Watt/mē 22mēpossible At 200 Watt/mē 18mē possible Larger areas possible with power protection!
You get 2 devices in a
single unit
Wide range of setting options, please read carefully! Features:
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Performance: 200 Watt/mē |
Performance: 160 Watt/mē |
Performance: 120 Watt/mē |
Additional info |
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Eberle EB 535 10A 2.4 KW |
12mē |
15mē |
20mē |
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Eberle
EB 535 10A 2.4 KW With 16A relay 3.6KW |
12mē+18mē |
15mē+22mē |
20mē+30mē |
The thermostat also controls
heating mats |
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Eberle EB F2A 16A 2.4 KW |
18mē |
22mē |
30mē |
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Eberle
EB 522 10A 2.4 KW With 16A relay 3.6KW |
12mē+18mē |
15mē+22mē |
20mē+30mē |
The thermostat also controls
heating mats |
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Eberle EB 512 10A 2.4 KW |
12mē |
15mē |
20mē |
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Eberle
EB 512 10A 2.4 KW With 16A relay 3.6KW |
12mē+18mē |
15mē+22mē |
20mē+30mē |
The thermostat also controls
heating mats |
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Eberle EB 531 16A 3.6 KW |
18mē |
22mē |
30mģ |
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Eberle
EB 531 16A 3.6 KW With 16A relay 3.6KW |
18mē+18mē |
22mē+22mē |
30mē+30mē |
The thermostat also controls
heating mats |
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Eberle EB Easy 3ft 16A 3.6 kW |
18mē |
22mē |
30mē |
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Eberle
EB Easy 3ft 16A 3.6KW With 16A relay 3.6KW |
18mē+18mē |
22mē+22mē |
30mē+30mē |
The thermostat also controls
heating mats |
Floor night storage heating
With electrical
floor
night storage heating, depending on your local district and the
electricity
provider, there are certain access times
during which it is permitted to heat, e.g. 8+2
hours.
This can mean it is only be possible to
heat in the evenings from 22.00 until 6.00 in the morning
and then again from 14.00 to 16.00.
In the times in between when it is not
allowed to heat, the stored heat energy in the floor plate must
be sufficient
to cover the heating needs. The
floor plate must be thick enough for this: depending on the
heating requirement for the room, from a min.
of 8cm up to 12 or 15cm . Such a solid floor plate of up to 15
cm is expensive not only in terms of the floor itself, but also
with regard to the height which is lost for the room itself as a
result.
When renovating a house you
should check
whether the structural design of the
building
can withstand the added load from such a
heavy
floor plate.
Also, a powerful heating mat of e.g. 200 Watt/mē needs to be fitted for
floor night
storage heating. The
reason for
this is that the warm-up period with a less
powerful heating mat must start earlier in the night in order to
charge
the floor plate with enough heat. The warm floor then of course starts to heat the room - in the
middle
of the night.
Therefore the aim should be to start the warm-up period as late as
possible using a powerful heating mat to shorten this time
(shortly before the end of the night storage period at 6.00).
This still, however, makes little sense if
the house is heated at 6.00 in the morning, but all the
occupants leave to go to work leaving nobody to feel the benefit of the
heat.
But if you do not heat right up until 6.00,
by the late afternoon, when the residents return from work, there will no longer be sufficient heat stored
in the floor plate. The 2 hours of
additional heating time from 14.00 to 16.00 are often not enough to
reheat the cooled house and to store enough heat until 22.00 when it is
permitted to start heating again.
With night storage heating there is a further rule of thumb: the larger the heated area, the lower
the required storage temperature in the floor plate, allowing
the self-regulation effect of the
floor heating to come into play.
Floor heating with restricted
time:
Much more effective than night storage floor
heating is the method in which the permitted heating period is subject
to restrictions. e.g. 2
hours in the middle of the day and one hour in the evening during which
it is not allowed to heat.
Otherwise you can heat as required;
it is therefore not necessary to
"hoard" heat unnecessarily when it benefits no-one. In this case
it is not necessary to have a
very thick floor plate for heat storage. The response time of the floor heating
improves noticeably.
Night storage
floor heating
is better suited to situations in which the rooms are used constantly.
Ask your electricity provider which heating tariffs apply for you.
Even if a heating power tariff
with restricted times is a little more expensive than a pure
night storage electricity tariff, it may ultimately prove cheaper as the
entire house does not always need to be heated.
Underfloor heating, or simply for taking
the chill off the bathroom floor
To take the chill off the bathroom floor
a high-power 200
Watt/mē heating mat ( TFS ) can be used in conjunction with a timer switch to
shorten the warming phase.
If it is to warm the floor in good time a heating
mat with a lower power rating must
be switched on much earlier, thereby
releasing
heat into the room.
As an anti-chill measure this is unnecessary
because the actual heating for
the
room comes from another heating source.
A heating mat with a higher power
rating can be switched on later and then only warms the floor when it is actually needed.
For short
periods of use in the bathroom the more powerful heating mat is
actually more economical than one with a lower rating.
If the floor heating is to be the
main source
of heating in the bathroom a more
powerful heating mat is advisable, especially as the available floor space in which the
heating
mats can be laid is relatively small given that the bathtub and/or
shower
cabinet take up a considerable amount of space.
If high levels of heating are required in
the bathroom, the floor temperature may have to be very high to
provide sufficient warmth (well over 30°C). The powerful 200 Watt/mē heating mat, or
possibly the 160 Watt/mē can provide this.
However, in this case an additional heating source, e.g. a heated towel
rail, may be preferable.
Care should be taken if, instead of concrete, a dry floor and e.g. double-bolted, gypsum-bound sheeting boards
are used.
In this case only heating mats
with a 120 Watt/mē rating should be used.
If the floor heating is the primary heating source and there are double-bolted gypsum-bound
sheeting boards, only use heating mats of maximum 160 Watt/mē,
and not 200 Watt/mē.
Explanation: gypsum-bound sheeting boards lose their internal
cohesion at temperatures significantly above 40°C.
The 120 Watt/mē heating mats,
even with continuous heating and no thermostat control would only be a maximum of 12°C warmer
than the bathroom air and therefore well below the critical
temperature.
Water-contact areas:
If heating mats are to be laid beneath the
tiles in a wet area, i.e. where the
water from the shower hits the tiles, protection class I heating mats should be laid, such as EPB-type or FH,
FHT types.
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