Re: x10 over three phase

["Paul Miller" <pmiller@xxxxxxx>]

I believe you may have a pull cord away from the shower (out of reach) or
if
a wall switch its meant to be outside of the bathroom, normally by the door
entrance (that's where mine is!)

Paul

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Chris Davenport [mailto:chris@xxxxxxx]
> Sent: 08 March 1999 11:15
> To: ukha_d@xxxxxxx
> Subject: [ukha_d] Re: x10 over three phase
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> >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>
>
>
> --
> Chris Davenport
> chris@xxxxxxx
>
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