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Ragnar,
if this is a large 100L unit, the ceiling would have to be very high up. I find it more likely that Paul is right in that it is a smaller unit. Like Sven wrote, the water is probably fairly warm to start with, which reduced the amount of water you need to heat and store.
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True, and 100l units aren't really required for a shower, maybe it's a 30l unit or something like that. The only time I remember seeing such a beast used much it was in a Hungarian castle that had ceilings close to 4m or maybe even higher, there it looked like that.
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We used to have the really large electric "geysers" here years ago.
The house to which I moved as a kid around 1970 still had a lot of pre-WWII fittings in it, and there was one of these monsters over the tub in the bathroom.
I would guess it was around 25 Imperial gallons in capacity (about 30 U.S. gals. or 113 liters).
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Sven, That thing it's in now looks like a metal surface-mount "handy box" that is severely rusted. I'd venture to say that that is a plastic mounting block, used to surface-mount the socket. The discolourisation that you see on the block and cover is more than likely a build-up of mould. Yuck!. However, the socket may well be out of reach, but with India's record of typically poor installation methods, this could probably be called a Top-Dollar job!.
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Here's 2 pictures of Indian sockets that I found on the Net: Strange looking animal!. {Message edited to fix up image tag} [This message has been edited by Trumpy (edited 03-05-2004).]
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Weird looking animal yes, but it's actually practical.
The left outlet can accept either 5 or 15 amp BS-546 plugs.
The right outlet is a "universal" and is commonly used in travel adapters.
You can connect:
American 15-amp (two or three pin) Europlug, Australian/Chinese/Argentinian, BS-546 5-amp BS-1363 Italian/Chilean 10-amp, Swiss probably also Israeli (haven't tried that last one)
I recognize that picture. It appears that the sockets were in a hotel....if so, it would make sense to put in such universal outlets so the user doesn't have to fiddle with dodgy adapters when connecting his dual-voltage appliance.
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Wouldn't plugging an Argentinian plug into this socket be dangerous?.
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Why? It's the same as the Australian one..except the polarity is reversed. And mains voltage in Argentina is 220-240 or something like that. Polarity is not an issue really...unless you're EXTREMELY gung-ho on safety.
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I would think polaritiy in Aus/NZ/Argentine appliences is pretty much irrelivant as the vast majority of them are identical to European versions anyway and would be designed to ship with unpolarised Europlug / Schuko (CEE 7/7) and they would more than likely comply with the European low voltage directives etc.
Have NZ/Aus followed the Cenelec move to 230V ratings ?
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The left outlet can accept either 5 or 15 amp BS-546 plugs. Sorry Sven, but the dimensions aren't right for that, and the 15A BS546 plug has a much larger earth pin than the 5A. This outlet looks like the type designed to accept a 3-pin 5A BS546 plug, or the 2-pin 5A version (the latter has the line/neutral pins slightly closer together than it's 3-pin variant). I have a couple of old BS546 adapters that have the same arrangement.
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