Re: x10 over three phase

[chris@xxxxxxx (Chris Davenport)]

>
>At 15:16 05/03/99, you wrote:
>>separate circuits with their own circuit breakers.  I must say that
>>45A for a shower is A LOT!!  If you don't like paying your
electricity
>>bill I suggest you take your showers really quick :-).  But that's
>>probably only a peak requirement such as when the unit is starting
up.
>
>I would expect not- 45A at 230V is 10.35kW.  10.8kW showers are not
>uncommon, particularly among those who frequent hotels and are aiming
for
>the same sort of 'fire hydrant' shower experience... at about 7p per
kWh, a
>10 minute shower would cost about 12p

Nigel, I stand corrected.  It's been many years since I last had an
electric shower and I'd forgotten the numbers.  I'm in rented accomodation
at the moment which doesn't have a shower :-(, and the new house we're
building will have a gas shower.

<snip>

>>  I think there is also an IEE regulation that says
>>you have to have a cut-out switch in an adjacent room.
>
>Never seen that one before- you might be thinking of extractor fans? 
And
>it should really be in the same room, out of reach, unless it can be
locked
>off in some way.

I've been racking my brains trying to remember why the last house we
renovated that had an electric shower had an isolation switch in the
adjacent bedroom.  Can't think what the reasoning was now; so many houses,
so much time...

<snip>


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Chris Davenport
chris@xxxxxxx

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