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Shower is running cold

My shower is not heating the water. If you turn it up to highest setting 10 it is very luke warm, essentially though it is cold.

I have gone through your instructions to test the heater can assembly, thermal cut out and solenoid valve with my digital multitester but still cannot work out what is wrong, so do not know what to order. Can you help any further please? My gut instinct is that as there is no hot water that the heater assembly has gone. The following is what happens when I test with my multimeter.



Solenoid valve: multimeter reads 3.75 ohms

TCO: multimeter beeps continuously showing continuity

Heater tank: this doesn't work as you indicate in your instructions. There are 4 rods (Blue wired R1 & R2; Brown wired R3 & R4). When checking for continuity to determine pairs of blue/brown wired rods I get a continuous beep no matter which ones I connect together! When I check for resistance I get readings of 16 and 12.1 ohms when connecting the two sets of rods (R1 + R3; R2 + R4). If I then pair the rods the other way around (R1 + R4; R2 + R3) I get readings of 12.1 and 15.8 ohms.

Tanks for any help.
Asked 12 years ago by Anonymous

Your resistance readings appeared to suggest that theelements are OK however I am not sure that I fully understand your descriptionof how you checked

 

The simple method is below

 

With the power off

 

Put the black probe into the large connector block that theblack wire goes to.

 

Put the red probe on to the rods that come out of theheating tank that the brown or red wires go to, then check the resistancereading.

 

If you still have good resistance on both elements thencheck that you are getting power to both elements (you could have a faultymicro switch not allowing the power through to the elements)

 

 

 

Answered 12 years ago by The Shower Doctor

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