Originally posted by troy
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My own electric shower was earthed and had an RCD protection on it.
The RCD tripped off many times and I just reset it and carried on.
One time in the shower I could smell an acrid burning and eventually had a look inside the shower.
There was a loose connection on the over temperature protection switch was was arcing and had burnt back and off all the red insulation on the main live feed, and also the heat generated from the arc had started to melt the plastic enclosure.
Luckily no water was getting inside .
So I cut back the damaged cable, put the cable lug back on with pliers, and connected it back on the output side of the over temp cut out switch , thus bypassing it, and it all works fine again.
Don't do the last paragraph at home, it invalidates all guarantees , h & s , etc, get a new shower, I did as a temporary thing and as I could.
Might do a thread on my shower.
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