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Electric shower works only when the heqting is on

  • 10-04-2008 12:13AM
    #1
    superfly35
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 380 ✭✭


    Hi everyone,

    I have just move in a new house, and I got a problem with the electric shower in the ensuite. The electric shower is a Mira Events XS.

    I 've just seen the installation tonight. As far I 'm aware of there is in the attic the tank, the shower in the ensuite is in the first floor, the pipe are taken one from the hot water and the other one from the cold water.

    In the electric shower, produce hot water only if the heating is one.
    At the same floor there is also in a bathroom another electric shower which work completly fine.

    Do you have any idea?
    Basecally the electric shower in the ensuite only works when the heat is on otherwise the water still cold.

    Many there is a fuse or something like that should be replace?

    Thanks
    Superfly


Comments

  • #2
    Thomas_S_Hunterson
    Closed Accounts Posts: 6,151 ✭✭✭Thomas_S_Hunterson


    Maybe it's a power shower (ie with a pump to increase pressure) and not an electric shower (electrically heated)?

    A quick google would indicate that it is.

    This type of shower will give a nice powerful shower, but will require the water to be hot. And be careful, they can drain a hot water tank in minutes when turned up!


  • #3
    superfly35
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 380 ✭✭superfly35


    Hi Sean,

    Thanks for the information about power shower, because I didn't now that exist.

    So I goole it, and that effectively a power shower and not a electric one, dammed. So that mean I have to use the immersion, each time I want a shower.

    Thanks for the help
    Superfly


  • #4
    DublinDilbert
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,423 ✭✭✭DublinDilbert


    superfly35 wrote: »

    In the electric shower, produce hot water only if the heating is one.
    At the same floor there is also in a bathroom another electric shower which work completly fine.

    The reason you have one electric shower and one pump shower is that your domestic electricity supply can not supply 2 electric showers at once!

    If you do install 2 electric showers you need to install a priority unit which means only one electric shower can be powered up at any time...


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