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OT: Shower down
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Our shower unit stopped working last week.
The Low Water Pressure light came on, and no water flowed -
a check of the plumbing revealed no problems, so I isolated
the unit and removed the front cover - to reveal a severely
scorched mains connector block!
The Neutral side had completely melted, leaving the bare
metal inner, and the Neutral mains feed wire insulation was
melted away.
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Move somewhere less spikey.
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So I replaced the bad wires and chok-block and re-connected
everything, and it now works OK.
Problem is, what could have caused the melt-down in the
first place, and, given that it is a shower unit over an
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Two thing really, one is a genuine 100% life threatening fault and the
other is a poorly made connection.
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enamelled cast-iron bath, am I likely to be fried if it
goes again while I'm under it?
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To avoid danger of electicution your bathroom must be an iso-potential
area. This means that every bit of metal (radiators, showers,
light-fittings etc.) must be at the same potential and cross-bonded to
earth. Get a competent electrician in there before someone dies.
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STFU, you silly sod.
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Well, he's half right in a half arsed half baked half a story way.
The only good bit is the last sentence, as I think the cable rating
should be checked by someone competent.
It's too late for me to explain equipotential bonding in a special
location so i'll let Grimly take the mic' :)
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But but but... doesn't all that nasty electric current travel down the
shower water spray?
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You! Get away from the bank now.
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I will as soon as I've unplugged all the plugs so that the lekky can't leak
out in the night and come up the stairs and make big sparky noises and set
the roof on fire and attract all the people in the spinning space ships and
take us away to nasty places where they do experiments and things. If you
don't turn the taps off properly the water glows in the kitchen when the
little particles from the pipes all make it excited.
(OK, a bottle of cava and a few glasses of fino.)
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He's totally, *totally* wrong in this particular case.
So you can STFU too.
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LOL
And the award for fastest with the predictable replies goes to.......
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