(05-05-2025, 01:40 PM)Praktica Wrote:(05-05-2025, 09:35 AM)zqwerty Wrote: Yes thermostats always fail to be full on heat which is probably because you will always need to cook even if you have no heat control.Simmerstats are $25 each, $80 for 4 on Trademe - they are ones originally used on most NZ stoves. I replace the ones on our stove myself - they seem to last around 6 years.
The ring thermostats may be faulty as well. They also will fail to full on heat with no regulation except to be able to turn OFF.
Ages ago (30 years) they cost about $50 each and there is labour time cost on top of that from a registered electrician.
A very sad event happened to a member of my family centered around a stove in a granny flat connected to my parents house, not caused directly by the thermostats being faulty but by actions taken because they were not working properly but no one realized that; Great Aunt Ediths (96 years old) seeming inability to boil an egg without boiling the pot dry was not due to oncoming failing mental abilities and/or her age, but that the heating rings were always on high because the thermostats were faulty.
When my mother and father went on holiday to the North Island from Chch they were so worried about her burning the place down as a possibility whilst she was on her own that they moved her into permanent hospital care where she eventually died quite quickly, she said to me it was so noisy there, and she was right. When I went to visit her she begged me to move her back to our home but I didn't know about the stove thermostat faults then, thought Mum knew what she was talking about, it was only later when I moved into the vacant flat I realized what had happened. As an aside, I could always smell 4711 perfume on hot days even years later.
I never told Mum, she would have been so upset, she was always a worry wart.
Quite a horrible story really, unexpected and unbidden.
If anyone is interested it is the heating coil on a bi-metallic strip that fails and causes this fault of the thermostat to not control the heat by altering the time duty cycle.
Thanks for that.. Ill be asking the sparky too..
Have had an Awesome Day.
Spoilt rotten... So much fun.. Lots of laughs.. So much so that none of us thought about taking photos. But I will remember it forever.
Gayle and Erin started doing the dishes, then in the middle they stopped and said Change over, so Fanny ended up having to wash while Dianne dried lol.. Sooo Classically done.. Ive never know her to do dishes lol.
And no Im not opening my Queen Anne chocolate fish until After Fanny leaves lol.
We were in the middle of sort of slagging off rest home David and he rang.. It was like ESP.. The room went silent lol.. But it was loud when I finished talking to him..
It was like a witches Coven lol.. but he is such an egg at time he's very easy to make fun of lol.
But I have invited him around tomorrow afternoon for Cake.
They told me I couldn't, so I did.!!