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Personmiffin
14/4/2009 at 6:40pm
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I shower fine in my van. I have the hot tap on full and the cold tap on half and the temperature is great. However, when I turn the hot tap off, there is not any cold water coming out of the shower head! So, my question is... how does this actually work then?
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Sounds like the microswitch in the cold tap is broken.

The switch in the hot tap will still power the pump once switched on, and as the cold tap is `open` water will flow until the hot tap is closed.


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Ah, I obviously did not explain this properly. The hot works great and the cold works great individually. So with my settings, I assumed a certain amount of cold water was mixing with the hot water to give me correct temperature. But as I said, if I turn hot tap off first, no cold is coming out of shower head so I do not understand quite how it is working at correct temperature.
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Thermostat ?

Does it get colder if you turn the cold tap on full?



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Yep, it gets cold then.
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i know some systems are fitted with thermostatic mixing valves but this seems to be working the other way.

as long as your not gettin burnt or frozen i wouldnt worry to be honest.

peace

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Think you are right. Having thought about it I would think that although the pump is being actuated by the hot tap, it is pushing a limited amount of cold thro the cold tap. When I turn the hot off of course the pump switches off so that stops the bit of cold coming thro too. I guess.

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