smoking power shower

[hepster]

just pulled the shower pull cord from the ceiling.i bought a like for like replacement (mk) wired it up and the led light came on when pulled,heard the power coming on but water had no force like usual,smoke then came out the base of the shower,turned the power to the house off and the shower was black inside,any idea whats wrong?

 

[Spark123]

Power shower as in just a pump which runs off your a normal hot and cold water (header tank type) system?
I'm suspecting just a coincidence tbh, can you post some photos of the offending item?

 

[First-time-buyer]

cross connected pull switch..

ie.. live to neutral, neutral to live.?

 

[Taylortwocities]

Tosh, it would still work even if L-N reversed. What do you think, the motor would run backwards ???

More likely to be a loose connection.

 

[household]

Recently called to look at similar problem , took swith apart neutral was loose , cured burning smell and over load tripping

 

[ban-all-sheds]

More likely to be a loose connection.

Would a loose connection at the switch cause the appliance to catch fire?

 

[XtraRaptor]

Did you make sure everything was clean before you connected the new pump into the circuit?

Could be that something has been dis-lodged and jambed the pump rotor.

Is it possible to remove the motor from the pump unit and trying to turn the pump by hand (just to see if it is free) or running the motor on its own.

Nick.

 

[ban-all-sheds]

What new pump?

 

[tim west]

Tosh, it would still work even if L-N reversed. What do you think, the motor would run backwards ???

Think you could be onto something here, a shower that sucks the dirt off

 

[BS3036]

What new pump?

Probably time to ask OP what he means by 'Power Shower' then...

 

[ban-all-sheds]

Doesn't matter what he means - he replaced the ceiling switch, not the whatever-he-means....

 

[JohnD]

I think he's lost interest

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[XtraRaptor]

What new pump?

Sorry, mis-read the post.



Nick.

 

[BS3036]

Doesn't matter what he means - he replaced the ceiling switch, not the whatever-he-means....

Very true. But it would be nice to know what 'whatever-he-means' was because that's what the smoke seems to be coming out of.

In the case of my 'power shower' the smoke would be coming of a water mixer valve, which makes no sense at all.

I presume the aim is to get to the bottom of the matter?

 

[NotHimAgain]

just pulled the shower pull cord from the ceiling.i bought a like for like replacement (mk) wired it up and the led light came on when pulled,heard the power coming on but water had no force like usual,smoke then came out the base of the shower,turned the power to the house off and the shower was black inside,any idea whats wrong?

Why did you replace the switch - had it stopped working?

If so maybe a fault in the shower pump damaged the original switch. The new one is now once again revealing the fault, but I expect it will fail soon too .