Good morning all,
sorry but I've got another electric shower question.
First I will explain our current setup.
We have an old Mira electric shower, its connected to a switch outside the shower room which looks to be a kitchen cooker type switch, this is then run directly to the consumer unit by what looks to me to be 6mm cable, it is run in 2m of stud wall then 8m of ceiling void. It is run back to a plug in 16a fuse, no problems with it except you have a warm trickle or nothing.
The comsumer unit is an old wylex unit which has been converted to plug in fuses, there is no rcd.
What is going to be the best way to upgrade the shower to something useful?
We have an unused 32a plug in fuse and so could swap it for the 16a(inc the base part) any problems with doing that? that should allow me to put a 7.5kw shower and hopefully that would be adequete or would it be worth purchasing a 40a set? or is that too high for 6mm with that run?
What about the rcd side of things? outside has a set of rcd protected outside sockets so no worries there.
Can you but rcd switches for the shower? or plug wylex rcd units?
Or is it ok too continue without rcd protection as it is currently and has been for the last 40 years (looking at the bathroom decor!)
Thanks for all your advise in advance
sorry but I've got another electric shower question.
First I will explain our current setup.
We have an old Mira electric shower, its connected to a switch outside the shower room which looks to be a kitchen cooker type switch, this is then run directly to the consumer unit by what looks to me to be 6mm cable, it is run in 2m of stud wall then 8m of ceiling void. It is run back to a plug in 16a fuse, no problems with it except you have a warm trickle or nothing.
The comsumer unit is an old wylex unit which has been converted to plug in fuses, there is no rcd.
What is going to be the best way to upgrade the shower to something useful?
We have an unused 32a plug in fuse and so could swap it for the 16a(inc the base part) any problems with doing that? that should allow me to put a 7.5kw shower and hopefully that would be adequete or would it be worth purchasing a 40a set? or is that too high for 6mm with that run?
What about the rcd side of things? outside has a set of rcd protected outside sockets so no worries there.
Can you but rcd switches for the shower? or plug wylex rcd units?
Or is it ok too continue without rcd protection as it is currently and has been for the last 40 years (looking at the bathroom decor!)
Thanks for all your advise in advance