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triton shower....

  • 20-05-2011 3:33pm
    #1
    mygti
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 30 ✭


    hi all , i have put in a new bathroom in my house , i got a new shower installed , a triton ....but the thing is when u pull the cord and start the shower its fine for 2 mins the it goes cold , then i adjust the dial to make it hotter then is gets nearly too hot ....is the shower faulty , its only a mth old , cost me over 300e .......should i get an engineers involved from triton?:eek:


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  • #2
    Bruthal
    Closed Accounts Posts: 13,422 ✭✭✭✭Bruthal


    Is it going completely cold or cooling a fair bit, or just slightly? It can be hard to tell when in it as any temp drop will feel cold. There are 2 elements in them, one for half heat and both on for full heat. Fully cold would be the same as having the shower running on cold which it has a setting for on the dial.

    If the shower if going fully cold then the pressure switch or the overheat temp cutout could be faulty, both of which are in the heating element circuit, or a problem on a connection in the element circuit. If one half of the element is stopping working then it could be a connection onto that half the element. The fact you can get it to get hot by turning up the dial(this really just reduces water flow to get higher temp) suggests one of the 2 elements is going off. But hard to say without seeing it of course.

    Warm water in the attic tank can make them showers run hotter especially on sunny days, and then some fresh colder water is introduced into the attic tank during use as the attic tank tops up and can make the shower temp drop a little.

    Might be worth calling the triton engineer alright since its so new if its a drastic temp drop.


  • #3
    knighted_1
    Closed Accounts Posts: 870 ✭✭✭knighted_1


    http://www.tlc-direct.co.uk/Technical/DataSheets/Triton/T90Si.pdf


    page 23 fault number 3 (and 2 for remedy )




    when new shower installs go in lots of muck can get blocked in the pipes causing problems like this


  • #4
    Bruthal
    Closed Accounts Posts: 13,422 ✭✭✭✭Bruthal


    knighted_1 wrote: »
    http://www.tlc-direct.co.uk/Technical/DataSheets/Triton/T90Si.pdf


    page 23 fault number 3 (and 2 for remedy )

    when new shower installs go in lots of muck can get blocked in the pipes causing problems like this

    Blocked filter is a possibility alright as well. This would cause a reduction in pressure though, or more accurately, flow rate, so if your in the shower thats working normally, and the blocked filter now causes flow to reduce, then the shower will become too hot to stand in at first, before going cold from cutting out on the thermal cutout switch. A blocked shower head would be unusual after only a month.

    Interesting the electrical diagram of the shower on page 12 of the manual(actually page 10 of printed manual, 12 on document) shows item 11 as thermal cutout. That should actually be the pressure switch.

    Is the flow rate good OP, or has it reduced sinse the shower was installed?


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