13A shower

SLIPSHOD & SLAPDASH · Feb 2, 2016

One of our guys gets asked to look at a 9.5kw shower. 'It must be faulty cos the spur fuse keeps blowing' says the customer. Must be a switch/circuit breaker we think. This is what he found

Thats wire wrapped round the open fuse

sprocketflup · Feb 2, 2016

Cant really tell from the pic, what size is the cable feeding said shower? Looks like 2.5, in which case them 13A fuses have been doing a sterling job :slap

steptoe · Feb 2, 2016

is that the normal,?!

lets use the immersion heater circuit now we have a combi fitted,

I see quite a few of those,,,,,,

ProDave · Feb 2, 2016

I once removed a 4KW shower. Yes that's right, a 4KW shower. It must have re defined the meaning of pathetic cold dribble of water under which to try and wash your body.

Sharpend · Feb 2, 2016

ProDave said:
I once removed a 4KW shower. Yes that's right, a 4KW shower. It must have re defined the meaning of pathetic cold dribble of water under which to try and wash your body.

That's the scots for you Dave, it's cheaper to run a 4kw as opposed to a 9kw

SLIPSHOD & SLAPDASH · Feb 3, 2016

I can beat that. Did a PIR on a flat not touched since the early 50s and it had a 3kw shower. It was a cream colour cylinder about 100 mm round with a 15mm pipe either end. You opened a stop cock to regulate the flow & temp. It felt mega hot to me and the tenant was happy with it.

steptoe · Feb 3, 2016

SLIPSHOD & SLAPDASH said:
I can beat that. Did a PIR on a flat not touched since the early 50s and it had a 3kw shower. It was a cream colour cylinder about 100 mm round with a 15mm pipe either end. You opened a stop cock to regulate the flow & temp. It felt mega hot to me and the tenant was happy with it.

maybe 12"-16" long?

sounds like those little stand alone immersion heaters that simply heat the water as it was drew off the cylinder,

were massively popular with NIHE in the 80s & 90s

sprocketflup · Feb 3, 2016

Hand wash heater unit :slap

SLIPSHOD & SLAPDASH · Feb 3, 2016

steptoe said:
maybe 12"-16" long?

sounds like those little stand alone immersion heaters that simply heat the water as it was drew off the cylinder,

were massively popular with NIHE in the 80s & 90s

Dont remember it being that long, but this was at least 10 years ago. It worked very well, better than all those silly dribbly hand wash's

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