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Electric showers only take water from the mains cold water supply. They heat the water when you turn the shower on, by passing it over a heating element inside the shower - in a similar way to how a kettle works. When you shower, you don't use up and stored hot water - so electric showers are ideal for families and households where there is a limited supply of hot water. Electric showers are always ready to use, any time of the day or night
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What could be a source of resistance in a household electric circuit?
Heat
Can I put an electric shower on a timer switch?
Most timer swiches are designed to operate with loads of up to 13 amps or 3 kW. Electric showers use around 8 kW (30-35 amps), so you would need a high-current timer.
How many watts does a radiator use?
Do you mean how many watts are used to make hot water? It varies, but a typical home electric hot water heater consumes about 4,500 watts. Industrial hot water heaters might use 20,000 watts or more! I have a little warmer that keeps my coffee warm as I type this, it consumes about 300 watts. Of course it only heats 6 ounces of water....
An electric Styrofoam cutter makes use of a hot wire to cut or melt into various shapes and sizes .Why does the wire need a high resistance?
it has to heat up so it cuts the foam.
Which of the following is an example of heat transfer by radiation A. an electric space heater warming a room B. a fire warming a group of campers C. the Sun warming the Earth?
Radiation is when heat shoots out like a ray, so all the examples given show radiation.
How do you Improve efficiency electric shower?
The unfortunate answer to this is that you can't. They transfer almost all the heat to the water. The shower unit itself hardly gets warm. It is worth descaling an electric shower if you live in a hard water area as this will improve the heat transfer. Also most showers have only one heat setting which is on full all the time and the temperature is regulated by increasing or decreasing the water flow. Therefore the only way of reducing the electricity usage is to fit a lower wattage shower. However this will have a lower flow and you might spend more time in the shower so making the overall costs the same or even greater.
How does an electric heater give out heat?
by fire . an electric heater is a metal, and a metal is a good conductor of heat. so it can produce heat
How long should you take a shower but it has to be fast?
you have to sing a song and be crazy! Don't slip! Birds love it when you sing to them! So do cats! Do it in the shower
Why are you cold when you get out of the shower?
When you get out of shower, there are water droplets on your body. Some of the body's heat is loss to them before they evaporate. So we felt colder. YP
How does heat create electricity?
because it moves so fast that it turns to heat
Can you use electric heater to heat alcohol?
I think So
Is a heat pump electric or gas?
All the heat pumps that I know of are electric. Some may have gas backup-- in very cold conditions , heat pump will not work, so some kind of backup is needed.
What type of heat transfer is an electric blanket?
convection
What could be a source of resistance in a household electric circuit?
Heat
Why did gas prices go down so fast?
Because the electric cars are coming!
What holds heat longer soil or water?
Soil absorbs heat much faster than water, but water does not have air in between like soil so it doesnt lose heat as fast, so water holds heat longer
The sun's heat causes atoms to move so fast that they crash into each other?
Yes... yes it does. For that matter, the Earth's heat causes some atoms to move so fast that they "crash into each other."
