Electric Shower Help

hopestreet · 19 Jul 2017

Morning,

Anyone with any knowledge of electric shower faults?? Shower has been working fine up until yesterday when went to switch on but not functioning correctly

Pull switch is working correctly as light appears but once switched on the light on shower unit is fading before finally going out completely. All connections in fuse box, pull switch fine therefore I assume a shower issue...

stem · 19 Jul 2017

I would suspect its the shower isolating pull switch. They have a habit of getting their switching contacts burned / pitted, so when the shower is operated and starts to draw current the contacts can't carry it anymore and nothing happens.

winston1 · 19 Jul 2017

There is no need to operate the pull switch every time you use the shower. It is there for isolation when doing shower maintenance. Looks like you have worn out the switch.

ban-all-sheds · 19 Jul 2017

winston1 said:
There is no need to operate the pull switch every time you use the shower. It is there for isolation when doing shower maintenance. Looks like you have worn out the switch.

Get a better switch.

Mine has been operated over 10,000 times and it is fine.

winston1 · 19 Jul 2017

ban-all-sheds said:
Get a better switch.

Mine has been operated over 10,000 times and it is fine.

You mean you have had to maintain your shower over 10,000 times? Get a better shower.

aptsys · 19 Jul 2017

stem said:
I would suspect its the shower isolating pull switch. They have a habit of getting their switching contacts burned / pitted, so when the shower is operated and starts to draw current the contacts can't carry it anymore and nothing happens.

You wouldn't use the pull cord to isolate the shower whilst under load, so you shouldn't get pitting of the contacts.

stem · 19 Jul 2017

It's not always operating the switch that causes arcing. I've known the isolator to arc under load. The shower was still working, but the arcing was causing radio interference. That was what drew the owners attention to it.

ban-all-sheds · 19 Jul 2017

winston1 said:
You mean you have had to maintain your shower over 10,000 times?

I did not say that. I said the switch has been operated over 10,000 times.

winston1 said:
There is no need to operate the pull switch every time you use the shower.

You don't know that.

winston1 said:
It is there for isolation when doing shower maintenance.

It is there to do whatever it is used for.

Taylortwocities · 19 Jul 2017

winston1 said:
but instead of saying "I disagree" you default to being insulting and rude.

I wonder why that could be?

securespark · 19 Jul 2017

Well, I swapped our shower switch 18 years ago (MK) and it has worked fine since then.

And I switch it on and off daily.

WabbitPoo · 19 Jul 2017

securespark said:
Well, I swapped our shower switch 18 years ago (MK) and it has worked fine since then.

And I switch it on and off daily.

Why?

securespark · 19 Jul 2017

Just because I can!

EFLImpudence · 19 Jul 2017

Or - Because it's there.

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