Turning shower on higher then low blows electrics

When turning the shower on it runs fine on the low setting but turning to medium or high trips the fuse on the electrics.



Shower has been running fine past 3 years and fault only just started.



What part could cause this and is there a replacement



(model Energy 2000x)
Asked 12 years ago by Anonymous

It may be a faulty element in the heating tank (there are two, three in 10kw showers) you can check them with a multi meter you should have a reading of around 12>18 ohms.  

If you don’t have a multimeter  we sell them at £10 each with a guide on how to use them for checking and testing the various parts of your shower 

Apart from helping to fix your shower, they are really useful for checking you have a power supply to appliances, for checking fuses, letting you know much power you have left in batteries

(so you know if they are dud or not)  and lots of other jobs, in short they are well  worth the £10.

http://www.shower-warehouse.co.uk/erol.html#55x878
A replacement heat exchanger of the right wattage can be ordered online via the link below.

http://www.showerdoc.com/shower-spares/gainsborough/GNS-PARENT-50-Gainsborough-Energy-2000X

Answered 12 years ago by Anonymous

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