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Thats a british gas special :) When they fitted that switch a year ago, i questioned it to the installer (who spent 30 minutes on the phone to try and find out if 6mm cable was okay for an 8.5kw) - he said it was fine.

I uploaded a photo of the switch so you can clearly see exactly whats happened: http://www.flickr.com/photos/lgladdy/4284156447/sizes/l/ Does that change the diagnosis at all, or match what you'd expect?

This would make sense. there is electrical tape all around it. Problem is, to strip back to clean would not give me enough room to wire it in, and looking online, you can't buy 45A termination blocks. I'm guessing i couldn't just "make do" with a 30A termination block in this instance? I'd...

Hey guys, We've got a mira sprint electric shower, its rated 8.5kw at 240v. (something like 7.8kw at 230v), and the voltage at the shower is about 243v (i assume this fluctuates a little, but that was last night) Towards the end of 2008, the shower switched stopped working, as either the...