Ich habe dieses Gerät im beigefügten Bild. Es ist etwas alt.
Früher habe ich es beim „Lüften“ ausgeschaltet und auch, wenn ich morgens zur Arbeit gehe. Ich schalte es dann wieder ein, wenn ich gegen 18-20 Uhr nach Hause komme.
Letzteres ist auf Sicherheitsbedenken zurückzuführen und dient vor allem der Beherrschung des Brandrisikos.
Ich habe dann online gelesen, dass wir auf die Automatik setzen und die Heizung eingeschaltet lassen sollten, um Energie und Geld zu sparen. Denn beim Aus- und Wiedereinschalten müssen sie mehr arbeiten, um die gewünschte Temperatur zu erreichen.
Ich bin mir nicht sicher, da es sich um ein etwas älteres Gerät handelt.
Soll ich es eingeschaltet lassen oder ausschalten, während ich mich außerhalb des Hauses befinde?
Vielen Dank im Voraus!
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Von Dangerous_West_1029
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Holy shit, that looks scary
This is a rather old, but reliable gas heater.
If it was maintenanced properly, there is no issue to operate it unsupervised. The system is even prone to shut-off more often than desired, as safety was always a big concern. So in case the flame extinguishes, the gas supply will stopp automatically.
But there is one issue which can be dangerous when your are at home: carbonmonoxide poisoning due to bad exhaust and bad ventilation. But as I said, this will be checked during maintenance and I believe devices like these are even supervised by the „Bezirksschornsteinfeger“ (chimney sweeper).
Regarding temperature setting: the knob is a thermostat, which will control room temperature by turning on and off the gas supply to the burner unit. If the desired temperature was reached only a small pilot flame remains burning to reignite the burner. If that small pilot flame extinguishes the bimetallic thermostat will stop the gas supply in total.
Generally, leaving the heating on consumes more energy than turning it on and off. Reheating being less efficient than constant heating is an urban myth. With this heater I’m not even sure if it has a Thermostatic Valve. In that case it won’t even self regulate so I’d just leave it off if you don’t have issues with high humidity.
As your heater seems ancient I assume you don’t have a room temperature controller (usually a little device on a wall somewhere where you set the desired temperature)? Cause that would be the only reason not to turn off the radiator. If you have one of these and turn off the radiator (at least the one in that room) the system would desperately try to reach the set temperature and circulate hot water without heating anything leading to energy losses.
put it on 1. Man this are old but amazing.