Wattage of Tesco value kettle elements?

[DC]

Hi all, I am thinking of upgrading my current boiler to a nice shiny Boil Pot and was wondering about what wattage elements to buy for say a 70L pot? I am currently using 2 Tesco value kettle elements in my 60L plastic boiler and they seem very adequate for boiling up to 10 gallon batches I am just wondering what wattage the Tesco value kettles are? So I can get some sort of idea of what wattage elements to buy for my new shiny boiler upgrade?

Cheers DC

[oakwell]

have a play with the water heating time calculator on here. I've found it pretty accurate and you can model different scenarios.

[DC]

Hi Oakwell, Cheers for the heads up about the water calculators, I have had a quick look and they look great but I actually need to know how many watts a Tesco value kettle actually is before I can start looking at water heating calculations.

My Tesco kettle elements are about 2 years old not sure if they have changed wattage over the last few years or so Come on Tesco element Guru's some one must know how many watts a Tesco value kettle is?

Cheers DC

[Naich]

The ones I've got, which are about the same age as yours, are 2.4 KW.

[oakwell]

according to the tesco direct website the element in the current value kettle is 2.2 kW

[Martin G]

Hi Oakwell, Cheers for the heads up about the water calculators, I have had a quick look and they look great but I actually need to know how many watts a Tesco value kettle actually is before I can start looking at water heating calculations.

My Tesco kettle elements are about 2 years old not sure if they have changed wattage over the last few years or so Come on Tesco element Guru's some one must know how many watts a Tesco value kettle is?

Cheers DC

Think the idea may have been that if you know how long yours takes then you can work it backwards to find the wattage?

[DC]

Hi Martin G, thanks for the heads up about the working out the wattage by reversing the boil times etc, very clever indeed. But I haven't measured any boil times lately.

Cheers DC

[chris2012]

If you've got a multimeter, you could measure the resistance of the element, then do: P = (230^2)/R (from P=V^2/R)

[oakwell]

Postby DC » Wed Jun 12, 2013 11:54 am
So I can get some sort of idea of what wattage elements to buy for my new shiny boiler upgrade?

the water heater calculator should give you what you need.