Do we all know what an electric shower-head heater is? Well here is a picture of one, not the one I had in my bathroom, but similar.
Turns out, I took a normal shower this morning. As you turn the water on from the knob, the water flow from inside the water-heater shower-head turns on the heater from a floater switch. Which gets activated from the flow of water through the shower head. The water comes out hot. No problem so far.
I have been using it for years without any problems. Today?s shower was no different. As I turn off the water, the switch inside the shower-head turns off the heating filament inside the unit. All good and set so far.
I go to work and I come home in the afternoon to eat in my house. I instantly smell a strong burning smell coming from somewhere. Burning plastic. I run towards my inverter to see if that burnt out. All fine there. I run in the room to check if the iron is left on there. Nop, nada. So I pass by the bathroom and smell the burning plastic smell even stronger. I pull off the shower curtain and this is what I see.
Yikexxxx. The burnt remains of my water-heater unit.
Seems like the switch inside got stuck and left it on. The unit burnt itself and melted out. If the shower curtain was ignited it could have been a disaster.
I will put a cut off hard switch next time.
Thanks god all it good and nothing else got fried.
AZB
Turns out, I took a normal shower this morning. As you turn the water on from the knob, the water flow from inside the water-heater shower-head turns on the heater from a floater switch. Which gets activated from the flow of water through the shower head. The water comes out hot. No problem so far.
I have been using it for years without any problems. Today?s shower was no different. As I turn off the water, the switch inside the shower-head turns off the heating filament inside the unit. All good and set so far.
I go to work and I come home in the afternoon to eat in my house. I instantly smell a strong burning smell coming from somewhere. Burning plastic. I run towards my inverter to see if that burnt out. All fine there. I run in the room to check if the iron is left on there. Nop, nada. So I pass by the bathroom and smell the burning plastic smell even stronger. I pull off the shower curtain and this is what I see.
Yikexxxx. The burnt remains of my water-heater unit.
Seems like the switch inside got stuck and left it on. The unit burnt itself and melted out. If the shower curtain was ignited it could have been a disaster.
I will put a cut off hard switch next time.
Thanks god all it good and nothing else got fried.
AZB