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night storage heater

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I have night storage heater. Dimplex xl24.

There is a ceramic part connected between Neutral and Phase. I cannot read the writing on it, It is old one.
What is it, what is the reason to have it, Is it a capacitor.

Your answer would be highly appreciated.
 
I can't see any reason for a resistive heating element to require a capacitor in circuit. Controls are by thermostatic bimetal strips.
 
Is there any possibility to produce sparks betwen bimetal strip gap. Therefore capacitor can be connected between phase and neutral To avoid this spark. Is it true.
 
mahinda jayasinghe said:
Is there any possibility to produce sparks betwen bimetal strip gap. Therefore capacitor can be connected between phase and neutral To avoid this spark. Is it true.

It would be connected across the contacts to do that.

Can you post a picture of the device?.
 
Heater control ?

Is this device close to the thermostat (but above it) ?

I used to have electric storage heaters and one of them had a tangential fan so it could warm a room fast. It had a ceramic high wattage resistor across the mains, I assumed it was to increase the air flow past the thermostat and so improve its response speed through convection currents.

I think the resistor was about 1k ? (it was about 15 years ago ...)
 
This is the device connted, please see the photo.
 

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