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Sarah
So, I'm checking why the heating won't work in a little apartment in France. There are 4 wall-mounted electric heaters and there is a timer on the wall which should be controlling them all via a pilot wire. There is a note on the timer in badly scrawled French about the new heater meaning the timer no longer works. This is true, all the heaters work if you use the 'manual' heat dial on each, but do nothing if put on 'automatic' setting. I then unhook one of the heaters from the wall in order to paint the wall, and discover this interesting wiring (see photo). I guess this is the 'new' heater they mean. It looks like someone has cut off the old heater cable and attached it to the new heater, leaving out a couple of wires. I don't really understand French wiring, but I presume they have connected the positive and neutral wires (blue and brown) but left the earth (green) and pilot wires (black). I don't know what is under the tape. I guess the answer is to take the tape off, connect the earth wire if there is an opportunity, and then to join the black wires together in some way - but how? To each other, outside the heater? Will that mean the other heaters all work, as the pilot wire will just bypass this heater? I don't want to do anything that might damage the other heaters or blow something up, naturally. Would be grateful for any help!