Saturday, October 13, 2007

Setting an instant heater


After some market research, I narrow down on an instant heater. This is against the normal storage heater what we find in most of the bathrooms.

Instant heater has advantage like providing hot water at the instant instead of requiring to switch on some time before. Also, the water is heated on a need basis opposed to traditional way of heating bulk water even if the need is less.

Also, the instant stuff is very cheap compared to storage heater.
However, the disadvantage is high voltage consumption. Guess this consumption will be compensated to the less amount of heater usage on an overall calculation.

After getting the heater, I was able to assemble the set by myself. Had connected the plug to live, earth, neutral as per the guidance from an electrician. However, the fuse went off when I tried to switch it on. Then the electrician had to come to fix the fuse. Seems like the electrical socket connection in the wall was faulty. After changing the line, the heater worked smooth.

No hassle still then, we are getting hot water at will (not our will, but the EB dept's will).

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