David006

my stepdaughter was graded out of 4 ( don't ask) at her tech school on many subjects...in English she got a 4 in Thai she got a 3..go figure....she can communicate quite well with me. in English.when she deigns too...
...Reminds me of getting low marks in French and English at gramer skool...lol

floridaguy, on 2012-05-13 22:53:43, said:

AAAH Sears! ...acres of tools and  DIY stuff.....drool...........a wonderland.....what a way to spend a few hours on a wet Sunday buying lots of neat stuff you may never use while the spouse is buying boring shit like food or.......still got my 30 year old Craftsman socket set....only thing that's  broke is one of the plastic case catches.....probably a market for a container load among aficionados...lol ......do so miss my reciprocating saw!

just a thought on bringing 110v to 240v environment...when we moved from Canada to Oz I brought all my power tools and bought a used transformer at 1000w....burned out using the skill saw ( 800w) after a while  so bought another 2000 watt.... Eventually replaced all for 240v tools as the power /torque was not there.
A friend from the same company took his white goods and home appliances and wired up his kitchen with alternate outlets from a 2000 watt transformer....I believe he went back to the US so never heard how the appliances stood up

seems that a lot of retailers/service providers are quite happy to sit on their hands , it is as though they have the shop  front as a place to go to...is it apathy?.( with the exception of the more aggressive Indian touts of course.)
I always wonder why they don't die of boredom......
In any retail market you have all the produce/product vendors grouped together ...they are always there so I guess there is enough business to go around?
When you look around at the number of vendors or manufacturers of similar or identical products in the world you gotta wonder...everything from soup to nuts as they say.
As many posters have said it is all about product/service differentiation in order to make a buck....apparently not a concern in many instances?

phoneguy702, on 2012-05-14 00:39:20, said:

Okay gonna look at ours now you have said that...are these straps or switches current shunts or water bypasses?...guess I'd better google..
....to get real hot water I have to cut down the flow to a dribble and have to jump around to get wet...

Since the output temp is a function of input water temp I was even considering putting two in series plus a makeshift hose solar array.

in practise hardly ever use the heaters and with the current heat it is never cold enough to be refreshing!

Next time if there ever is one ,will try and find gas heaters

lol....gotta say rather a strange question re consumption...sort of like asking for specs on a lawn sprinkler  .lol
Most heaters have a flow setting.
Why do you need to know...water usage would be based on water volume/pressure and the amount of time you spend in the shower no?
Rain showers are pretty and fun I suppose but the hand-helds are better for cleaning nooks and crannies..lol
Could always buy a plastic bucket and a hello kitty scoop?

Re the heaters...we have three and the water never gets hot enough to scald even though the temp setting is at max. If you buy lower wattage units you'll probably find it don't get hot enough even.
Think if tampering with settings by little hands is problem take off the control knob and put a blind grommet in the hole or mount the unit out of reach? Would stay away from electronic controls based on the KISS principle.