The flowing electric crane water heater for a bathroom and

If there is no hot water in the house for a long time, this can dishearten modern man. Everyone solves this problem on their own - someone installs a storage tank, the other uses a compact instantaneous water heater. But, there is another option, how to get hot water in the apartment at any time - using a mixer-water heater. We offer to learn more about it and evaluate the capabilities of the device.

A modern device - an electric tap for heating water, will allow you to enjoy the benefits of the civilized world even in the long-term lack of hot water supply. Below we learn its design, the way the device works, the characteristics and features that must be considered when choosing.

General information about the equipment

1. A faucet with a water heater resembles a mixer, only increased in overall dimensions.
2. Thanks to this, we managed to compactly arrange a powerful heating element and other thin equipment., which ensures safety when using the device by humans.
3. The device differs from the standard in the presence of wires to connect to the network, otherwise it is almost identical sanitary equipment.

How the device works

The mixer-electric heater has 3 modes of operation:

Regulation of water temperature in almost all models of this type of water heaters is made by reducing or increasing the pressure of the liquid flowing through it.

Tip: lowering or raising the lever, it is possible to establish a certain water temperature with an accuracy of up to one degree.

Tip: You can purchase a mixer model where the temperature controller is installed on the side of their case. This design is a little more convenient - the pressure of the water is monitored by the electronics that control its temperature, reducing or increasing the heat.

To ensure the electrical safety of a person in electric mixers, a protective cutout device or RCD is installed, which is compactly placed on the power cable. If a breakdown occurs, the supply of electricity will be stopped in a split second.

Features of the water heater mixer

High competition in the plumbing market forces manufacturers to invent devices that will not be driven out of it at the very first moment.

An exception was not the faucet with an electric water heater, which became popular among consumers due to its advantages:

1. Water heating is almost instantaneous, the mixers go to the set temperature mode for 5 seconds. In fact, the water heater can provide any amount of hot water. You can compare it with the flow-through, some models of which are not designed to fill the bath, and this device copes with this task quite successfully.

1. The temperature of the water, regardless of the pressure remains constant - you need to once set up this device for yourself and you can no longer think about boiling water from the tap.
2. Overall dimensions are very small, if for comparison with a faucet water heater take other types of similar devices.
3. Does not affect the appearance of the room. Many simply do not guess about the appointment of this type of device.
4. Relatively low price, starting at $ 100. When comparing products with other types of water heaters, it is safe to say that in this respect the product is more than affordable.

Among the shortcomings, the following should be noted:

1. High power consumption (3 kW / h), although you could pay for such convenience.
2. Low throughput - on average, this faucet can heat 4.5-6 liters of water per minute. For example, a gas column more than 2 times overlaps this parameter.

At the same time, the designers claim that this volume of hot water is enough for a full bath. Devices cope with this task best.

We choose the crane and we mount

The mixer-water heater is a serious device in which it was possible to combine two incompatible things - electric current and water, and next to a person. Therefore, the device should be maximally stuffed with various protection.

Before you choose a running electric water heater on the faucet, remember that it is considered normal when there are such safety elements in this heater:

1. RCD - it is able to quickly protect a person from electric shock during breakdown. It will also ensure that the product does not break due to voltage drops.
2. Protection against excessive water heating. For this there is a special sensor that is built into the heating chamber. It should turn off the power when the water temperature reaches +60 ° C. When it goes down, the heating element will automatically turn on.
3. Protection against dry running. If there is no water in the water supply system or the pressure in it is below 0.4 bar, a special sensor will also turn off the power supply. When the pressure in the pipeline exceeds 7 bar, the device will also turn off the power to the device.

1. Protection against water hammer. Necessary thing, since it can disable expensive equipment. For this purpose, silicone damping and elastic plastic are installed in the case of the sink mixer device.
2. To protect all electrical equipment, special waterproof casings are used according to the international standard IPx4.

All the above measures allowed us to make the operation of the product as safe as possible for the consumer.

Installation of the heating mixer is made in the same way as usual.

The exception is:

• connection occurs only to the cold water pipe (there are, however, combined models for which the instruction allows the use of hot water from the water supply system);
• The electrical part of the mixer is connected to a separate branch of electrical wiring with a cable cross-section of at least 2.5 mm2. There must be a protective earth circuit.

Conclusion

Do you want to always have hot water in your apartment or house? There is no need to purchase bulky boilers and very powerful instantaneous water heaters. It is enough just to install a tap in the dwelling with an electric water heating system.

The device is compact, does not take place in the bathroom or in the kitchen, safe to use. The video in this article will provide an opportunity to find additional information on the above topic.