Can you fill it with gin?
Waterpik, I've recently bought an improved mains operated model suitable for use in a UK bathroom, it has a standard shaver plug on it, designed to run safely off an UK shaver socket - and it cleans just as well.
What they say is it can't be powered from an isolation transformer shaver socket.
It is purely the fact that the Wiring Regulations have restrictions on BS 1363 sockets in bathrooms which make it unsuitable, not the fact that it uses electricity.
So a longer lead on the base unit would be one solution - take the power from a socket far enough away.
Another solution would be to get a 50-100VA 230V:230V isolating transformer, mount it in a suitable enclosure remote from the bathroom and use it to supply a plain (i.e. transformerless) shaver socket. OK - still non-compliant, as it wouldn't be a BS EN 61558-2-5 shaver unit, but it would be as safe.
Waterpik, I've recently bought an improved mains operated model suitable for use in a UK bathroom, it has a standard shaver plug on it, designed to run safely off an UK shaver socket - and it cleans just as well.
The only exception to the reg prohibiting a LV socket outlet in bathroom zones relates to shaver outlets which comply with BS EN 61558-2-5, which may be located in zone 2.What do the regulation say about feeding a socket from an isolating transformer ? A DIY 50 watt shaver socket. ?... I AM NOT SUGGESTING THIS AS THE ANSWER TO THE OP's NEED but wondered if there was a limit on shaver power designs.
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