Electric shower advice please

[rocketmanbkk]

Friends

Went to see a shower.

Triton Tsi80 or something.

Anyway, no power light comes on to the front, no water hot or cold.

Took front off & with my Fluke (!) electric tester is lit up red & sounded.

No idea about these but there's power going in.

Any thoughts please?

Thanks

Rct

 

[Plumbstar Tom]

faulty solenoid?
Supply to it blocked or accidental shut off

Electric showers work on a very basic principle, cold water in, though heating element, through flow control, out handset. The flow control slows it down and it spends longer at the element/s and gets hotter. So the temperature gauge is actually the control the changes the flow. Obvious there are other factors like thermal cut outs, micro switches etc

 

[rocketmanbkk]

Thanks.

 

[Shower Engineer]

Be careful about using a volt stick, it will only check the live and most probelms are the neutral in the pull switch. Use a multimeter with probes to be safe and sure.
Is the neon lit on the pullswitch? If it is and it goes out when you turn the shower on then it will be a faulty pull switch.
If you have 230V to the shower then check out the following link to test the solenoid.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NzJjzWqxesc

 

[rocketmanbkk]

Thanks. The pull switch has no light, it's old. I think it's the pull switch too. It doesn't click on/off as it should. Thanks.

 

[rocketmanbkk]

Great video.

 

[SimonG]

Had one last week. Pull switch was goosed. Getting a live neutral 🙂

 

[stevetheplumber]

get into the habit of using a two pronged tester either a multimeter or a twopole one like this
Fluke T90 Voltage & Continuity Tester | LOW prices on Voltage Testers
and always test live to neutral and love to earth and neutral to earth it could save your life

 

[rocketmanbkk]

To be honest Steve, I don't really know how to use them. I'll buy one this week though. Thx

 

[SimonG]

get into the habit of using a two pronged tester either a multimeter or a twopole one like this
Fluke T90 Voltage & Continuity Tester | LOW prices on Voltage Testers
and always test live to neutral and love to earth and neutral to earth it could save your life

I have a set like that. Absolutely priceless, especially with some of the diy electrics out there.

 

[rocketmanbkk]

Changed the pull switch all ok. Took me a while, sweating!