6 ohms on a heating element it willbe knackered
Electric Showers - the inside! replaceable parts? etc
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your working it off one element. these two elements.
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then a 10.5kw has 3 elements
OK then its 18 ohms each!
Showers are such a problem that I stay well clear of them.
Last one I saw had been arcing on the input connector block and had got so hot that the outer case had turned brown and distorted for around 60 mm on one side.
I often wonder if there are not several fatalities from electric showers when water and electricity are so closely mixed with someone who is all wet!
Once I got a shock in the shower and discovered the shower head was connected to the mains earth connection but the drain was obviously connected to the earth. There was about 35 volts between the mains earth and the actual ground because of the phase unbalance. But that was in the Seychelles. I always take my test meter on holiday!
Tony
Showers are such a problem that I stay well clear of them.
Last one I saw had been arcing on the input connector block and had got so hot that the outer case had turned brown and distorted for around 60 mm on one side.
I often wonder if there are not several fatalities from electric showers when water and electricity are so closely mixed with someone who is all wet!
Once I got a shock in the shower and discovered the shower head was connected to the mains earth connection but the drain was obviously connected to the earth. There was about 35 volts between the mains earth and the actual ground because of the phase unbalance. But that was in the Seychelles. I always take my test meter on holiday!
Tony
do admit they are a deadly combination, nothing better than standing in a customers wet bath and trying to test it while its running.
the shower you have hasnt got a solenoid valve.
it has an internal tap to turn off the water and the spring you speak of is the return spring for the pressure switch.
as for the elements they should measure 11.5 ohms and 12.8 ohms all being well
it has an internal tap to turn off the water and the spring you speak of is the return spring for the pressure switch.
as for the elements they should measure 11.5 ohms and 12.8 ohms all being well
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