Traumatic S3002 heater (not water)

Which power setting were you using?

Spokes wrote:Thanks for your help, stuck up in Harrogate at the moment in the poring rain, tried the suggestions above, luckily heater works on gas. Could it be a fuse?

A van of the age of yours will typically have the following:

230v supply from one of the circuit breakers in the consumer unit to a discrete isolation switch located in the wardrobe or cupboard, the switch unit may include a 10A fuse (mine does but some don't). The on/off switch (dial) that has three 'on' settings; 500W, 1000W & 2000W and a central dial calibrated from 1 to 9 that is the thermostatic control for the unit.

Check the RCD and circuit breaker are on and that other 230v devices in the van work. Locate the isolation switch, check the fuse is ok and switch it on. Set the on switch to 2000 and the thermostat to 9 and in about 5 mins you should feel some heat.

Not sure if this is the same problem as we had with our heater. The heating suddenly stoped working and the light in the switch was not lit. After a bit of thinking I realised the switch is has a fuse in it, above the switch.
The fuse holder had melted. As a try and see I bought a new switch complete with a fuse. The first time I tried the heating the fuse blew again. I have know cheap fuses to do this so I bought some slow blow fuses and this cured the problem.
We find the heater on gas is more efficient and warms us up quicker. During the winter we some times leave the electric heating on the lowest setting when we are out for the day if only to dry the towels in the bathroom.