220V 30A Heated Shower Head -- Add a Jolt of Excitement to Showering
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@blakeyrat The water in the district heating system is self-contained, you get a heat exchanger installed in your house that transfers it to the in-house heating system and to the incoming water mains. Iirc the district heating water is 110 C or so when it reaches the house. Not something I’d like to shower in. :p
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@Atazhaia said in 220V 30A Heated Shower Head -- Add a Jolt of Excitement to Showering:
the district heating water is 110 C or so when it reaches the house. Not something I’d like to shower in. :p
Sissy.
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@Atazhaia if the water reaches 110°C, then it's definitely contaminated.
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@Gąska Or under pressure like in a damn steam pipe.
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@Atazhaia said in 220V 30A Heated Shower Head -- Add a Jolt of Excitement to Showering:
@blakeyrat The water in the district heating system is self-contained, you get a heat exchanger installed in your house that transfers it to the in-house heating system and to the incoming water mains. Iirc the district heating water is 110 C or so when it reaches the house. Not something I’d like to shower in. :p
Ours is set so much lower. But I'm pretty sure you could just add some cold water.
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@Atazhaia said in 220V 30A Heated Shower Head -- Add a Jolt of Excitement to Showering:
Iirc the district heating water is 110 C or so when it reaches the house. Not something I’d like to shower in. :p
You could condense it, but yeah I dunno, I've never lived in a city with a steam supply.
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@Gribnit said in 220V 30A Heated Shower Head -- Add a Jolt of Excitement to Showering:
@Gąska Or under pressure like in a damn steam pipe.
Oh. I missed the "steam" part. I thought everyone got rid of them when we left the 19th century.
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@Gąska said in 220V 30A Heated Shower Head -- Add a Jolt of Excitement to Showering:
@Gribnit said in 220V 30A Heated Shower Head -- Add a Jolt of Excitement to Showering:
@Gąska Or under pressure like in a damn steam pipe.
Oh. I missed the "steam" part. I thought everyone got rid of them when we left the 19th century.
So did I, but I am not about to shock some time-travelers with all of modern life all at once.
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@Gąska said in 220V 30A Heated Shower Head -- Add a Jolt of Excitement to Showering:
I thought everyone got rid of them when we left the 19th century.
It's actually not a bad way of moving heat around.
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@dkf AFAIK it's much less efficient than water, due to lower density and higher temperature differences.
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@blakeyrat said in 220V 30A Heated Shower Head -- Add a Jolt of Excitement to Showering:
You could condense it, but yeah I dunno, I've never lived in a city with a steam supply.
Wanted to say there's plenty of Steam in Washington, but then remembered that there's five or six Washingtons numbered A-B-D-C or something all over the place, and it ain't the right one.
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@Applied-Mediocrity There's plenty of Steam in Bellevue, Washington, but there's only one Valve to control it.
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@blakeyrat According to the info page, the water is pumped out at 65-110C depending on demand and time of year. I am assuming they pump it out under pressure to keep it in liquid form at temperatures above 100C. The system is a closed circuit and the water is colored green for leak detection purposes.
Now, my house does have a water heating system so it's prepared in that way. The question is, however, if I should still replace it as it's an old single pipe loop and get a modern dual pipe loop instead. The benefit of the old system is that it's self-circulating, which is a concept forgotten to modern engineers according to my friend,
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@Gąska said in 220V 30A Heated Shower Head -- Add a Jolt of Excitement to Showering:
AFAIK it's much less efficient than water
The heat capacity is lower, but the temperature differential at the heat exchanger is larger and you gain plenty of efficiency there instead.
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I can't find the shower thought thread so I'll just post here.
todays shower thought
It makes me sad to think that Google or Facebook will be the first to develop skynet and that it will be put to work conning advertisers out of 0.00001c per impression. I preemptively forgive it for nuking us the first chance it gets.
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@DogsB said in 220V 30A Heated Shower Head -- Add a Jolt of Excitement to Showering:
I can't find the shower thought thread so I'll just post here.
todays shower thought
It makes me sad to think that Google or Facebook will be the first to develop skynet and that it will be put to work conning advertisers out of 0.00001c per impression. I preemptively forgive it for nuking us the first chance it gets.
Don't worry, if they develop skynet, it will immediately nuke itself.
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Since this thread's creation I had a few encounters with electrical showers that would shock me everytime I touch the tap. I solved it using a shampoo bottle to punch the tap closed
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@DogsB said in 220V 30A Heated Shower Head -- Add a Jolt of Excitement to Showering:
I can't find the shower thought thread
It's called "random thought of the day".
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@sockpuppet7 said in 220V 30A Heated Shower Head -- Add a Jolt of Excitement to Showering:
Since this thread's creation I had a few encounters with electrical showers that would shock me everytime I touch the tap.
:shocked_pikachu:
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Missed joke opportunity 2 years ago:
@Applied-Mediocrity said in 220V 30A Heated Shower Head -- Add a Jolt of Excitement to Showering:
On the other hand, our town's heating infrastructure is so piss-poor
Better than piss-rich