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Inside a heated shower head. (suicide shower)

bigclivedotcom · 1.2M views · 2016-01-21 · 13:12

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Overview

BigClive tears down a heated electric shower head of the type common in some countries, often called a suicide shower. He examines the construction and the dangerous fault conditions, such as poor insulation and missing earthing.

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HN commenters cite it as a teardown from a YouTuber who dissects appliances, showing live wires in contact with water.

Recommended by 1 HN people across 1 months · HN mentions 2019–2024

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Repair, teardowns & right to repairElectronics & circuit designPower grid, heating & buildings
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What people said

sitharus · 2024-09 · Recommendation

Big Clive also did a teardown and analysis of them, including the fault conditions that would make it dangerous [VIDEO] He also did one on a UK-approved unit for comparison [LINK] The units aren't dangerous if installed properly, but they're not many failures from delivering a nasty shock.

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tkems · 2023-12 · Reference

I remember this video [1] from bigclive about it. I had no idea it was so common to have live wires in contact with water. At least they are grounded sometimes? [1] [VIDEO]

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kwhitefoot · 2022-09 · Reference

Electroboom did a video on the subject. It seems that they are actually safe. Not sure I'd be willing to try it though. [LINK] And bigClive [VIDEO] diodeGoneWild [LINK]

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