Electric shower advice please.....

[Jay Cee]

VP Sent me this file, so they clearly know about the fault.

 

[Tina Payne]

Hi, update on our shower, we finally had an engineer call at the manufacturers expense. He came and put some "U" shaped washers internally behind the Echo button and now all is working well. Thank goodness for that, but what a rigmarole!! Thank you everyone for your support and information. Happy Showering.

 

[Baddegg]

Your welcome Tina, glad you got it sorted,

 

[DPG]

Glad you got it sorted in the end!

 

[Kiefer]

Fitted 9.5 kw aquas aquamax shower today (customer supplied) and new full rcbo consumer unit, all good except the shower is absolute s£&t! Even on the highest setting the water is only moderately hot, water pressure seems fine and no different to any other showers I’ve fitted, one thing I did notice was when I clamped the meter tails with the shower running on full heat it only ever pulls approximately 15amps,new 10mm cable run in void under the floor for approx 18mtrs to a chase in the wall upto isolation switch with pvc wall panels over that,plenty of free air around the cable,admittedly I’ve never had to clamp a shower before but does that seems low for a 9.5kw shower?
Thanks as always

I’m just after getting mine fitted today, which I purchased several months ago. I’ve used it once and it’s the same as you described. The hot water is only warm and not too powerful (not even on the hand held part) yet, when the cold is on, it’s very powerful. (Both parts) When I put the eco button it, it is better but it drops temperature and is fairly cold. It must just be the way they are?? For the price of them, you’d expect to get hot water and definitely more power!?

 

[Baddegg]

I’m just after getting mine fitted today, which I purchased several months ago. I’ve used it once and it’s the same as you described. The hot water is only warm and not too powerful (not even on the hand held part) yet, when the cold is on, it’s very powerful. (Both parts) When I put the eco button it, it is better but it drops temperature and is fairly cold. It must just be the way they are?? For the price of them, you’d expect to get hot water and definitely more power!?

The eco button Micro switch is not making contact mate, the company that makes and supplies these to Victorian plumbing will tell you to put a washer between the shower unit and the wall behind, basically an admission of design fault....if contact VP and tell them you want ya money back

 

[Kiefer]

The eco button Micro switch is not making contact mate, the company that makes and supplies these to Victorian plumbing will tell you to put a washer between the shower unit and the wall behind, basically an admission of design fault....if contact VP and tell them you want ya money back

Hi mate. I read the eco button is meant to be more for the “summer months” which will reduce the kw down to 5 kw. When I pushed it in, it made my shower more powerful, from which it was set at the warmest point. As I said, the cold shower is really powerful but when I put it to hot, it loses a lot of power and isn’t “hot” and just warm.

 

[Baddegg]

Hi mate. I read the eco button is meant to be more for the “summer months” which will reduce the kw down to 5 kw. When I pushed it in, it made my shower more powerful, from which it was set at the warmest point. As I said, the cold shower is really powerful but when I put it to hot, it loses a lot of power and isn’t “hot” and just warm.

The water will be more powerful in eco mode as the shower doesn’t have to heat the water so much...the force of water is nothing to do with the shower that’s dependent on your water pressure from the mains,

 

[Gary Gemmell]

One element in the shower always has a higher resistance than the other one 20amp the other 15amp (bigclivedotcom did a shower teardown) - soz i should have read that it was sorted above lol

I would go with Creda showers all the time had mine for 7 years and not a problem and i have a 30 min shower every day which really should burn the shower out within a few years - Mira are pony and trap too many problems with em!

The eco mode microswitch just switches off the main element which is usually 20amp @Kiefer!

 

[Kiefer]

The water will be more powerful in eco mode as the shower doesn’t have to heat the water so much...the force of water is nothing to do with the shower that’s dependent on your water pressure from the mains,

Ok got you. Should the shower not be hotter than what it is, when it’s just on normal mode? It’s warm but not hot like you’d expect!

One element in the shower always has a higher resistance than the other one 20amp the other 15amp (bigclivedotcom did a shower teardown) - soz i should have read that it was sorted above lol

I would go with Creda showers all the time had mine for 7 years and not a problem and i have a 30 min shower every day which really should burn the shower out within a few years - Mira are pony and trap too many problems with em!

The eco mode microswitch just switches off the main element which is usually 20amp @Kiefer!

cheers! I don’t think I’ll need to use the eco button anytime as the normal (turned fully to hot) setting is like warm anyway. I’d definitely expect “hot” water from it?