Something new

[64 kiwi boni]

Hay, guys , i am doing a renovation at the beach and wanted  to show you what i found to use in the new bathroom for the shower

This is a electronic thermostatic mixer valve that does away with the shower mixer or taps you would usually have to run your shower.

the module mounts in the ceiling and a data cable runs down in the wall too this control knob. you simply touch it to start and stop the flow, touch left or right to adjust the temp and scroll left or right to adjust the flow rate, its something new and felton asked me if i would trial one for them.

https://www.felton.co.nz/tate/tate-smartflow-digital-shower-mixer-chrome/

Edited October 24, 2020 by 64 kiwi boni

[64 kiwi boni]

and today it’s all about insulation

nasty bloody itchy glass insulation to install 

[64 kiwi boni]

Might just go for a swim later on 

[Ringo64]

Very cool! Not sure as an IT guy I want electronics near my shower but maybe that’s just me  

Man, what a lovely spot you got there!

[64 kiwi boni]

Ringo ,it’s a shit spot 

[64 kiwi boni]

This thing with getting older, just doesn’t sit right with me.

when your young you just don’t think about getting old 

I have just spent my life going hard, doing skids,burning woman, and loosing pets . Now ... 

i kind have changed my mind 

losing harry , has reminded me that life is about your friends,you ,and all the guys on foreverpontiac , my Taupo rod and custom club , my mates from waiheke rod and custom 

and all the other clubs that over the years I have shared beers with are more important 

here sitting on the deck at the beach 

with a beer in hand,

i am sad about harry, but he would want me to get that bloody 64 driveable so he could cruise in it !

even if he was just s dog,,he was a petrol head  too 🥺

 

[64 kiwi boni]

4 hours ago, Ringo64 said:

Very cool! Not sure as an IT guy I want electronics near my shower but maybe that’s just me  

Man, what a lovely spot you got there!

Mate ,as a IT guy you would love a pcb thermostaticly controlled shower that doesn’t changed temperature while your in there and your good lady turns on the sink faucet to rinse a cup 🤪

[64 kiwi boni]

Ringo, you live in such a awsum location 

its way warmer where you are than here.

but here ... less people .

like I could go down to the beach right now and there would be no one for a mile 

[Ringo64]

7 hours ago, 64 kiwi boni said:

Mate ,as a IT guy you would love a pcb thermostaticly controlled shower that doesn’t changed temperature while your in there and your good lady turns on the sink faucet to rinse a cup 🤪

😂 . Our water heater just went out a couple weeks ago. Decided to upgrade to a tankless system hybrid. She hates it cause it takes a min or so longer to heat to the degree of the sun that she likes but man, so far, that thing is very cool and I like it. Saving a good chunk on gas. Never realized how much our old one ran till this. 

7 hours ago, 64 kiwi boni said:

Ringo, you live in such a awsum location 

its way warmer where you are than here.

but here ... less people .

like I could go down to the beach right now and there would be no one for a mile 

Less people is something right now I’d like to see. Yesterday, I drove out to almost the Everglades to get away and usually that road is empty. Season is here so all the people from up north are down and that drive had a lot of people on it.

I also haven’t been to the beach since this whole pandemic started.

Also could go for a little cooler weather. Been a hot summer but Always want what you don’t have  

[Frosty]

9 hours ago, 64 kiwi boni said:

Mate ,as a IT guy you would love a pcb thermostaticly controlled shower that doesn’t changed temperature while your in there and your good lady turns on the sink faucet to rinse a cup 🤪

Are you saying no more shrunken willies mate? Say it ain’t so? Send me the schematics and prints!

[JUSTA6]

While novel N cool, gotta go with Ringo on mixin electronics N water.   So how long to get parts when it screws up?  How much of the wall or shower has to come back out to work on it?   LMAO .....  this coming from the guy that couldn't understand why you couldn't JUSTA get up N chance the channel on the TV.   Instead you spend 10 mins searching the house for the remote.

[Frosty]

JUSTA - there were remote control when we were kids. JUSTA not the battery driven kind. Dad would whack one of us up the side of the head with a slipper or newspaper, and say "Hey kid, change the channel to Channel 4. It's time for Flipper!". We'd get up and turn the channel to Channel 4 and rub the back of our heads on the way back to our seats. It worked!

[Ringo64]

2 hours ago, JUSTA6 said:

While novel N cool, gotta go with Ringo on mixin electronics N water.   So how long to get parts when it screws up?  How much of the wall or shower has to come back out to work on it?   LMAO .....  this coming from the guy that couldn't understand why you couldn't JUSTA get up N chance the channel on the TV.   Instead you spend 10 mins searching the house for the remote.

I have a TON of tech in my house. I love it but none of it operates critical items or things like this are a little too close to shocking me for my comfort. Maybe in 5 years or more when they perfect it I'll be down  

[TWO LANE BLACK TOP]

1 hour ago, Frosty said:

JUSTA - there were remote control when we were kids. JUSTA not the battery driven kind. Dad would whack one of us up the side of the head with a slipper or newspaper, and say "Hey kid, change the channel to Channel 4. It's time for Flipper!". We'd get up and turn the channel to Channel 4 and rub the back of our heads on the way back to our seats. It worked!

The homemade aluminum foil flags on the rabbit ears were also a cool accessory.... Although they only worked correctly as long as you were standing there with your hand on the antenna.....So dad could watch Cronkite with a clear picture.....After he used the "No batteries required remote" to change the TV channels....

Edited October 26, 2020 by TWO LANE BLACK TOP

[64 kiwi boni]

4 hours ago, JUSTA6 said:

While novel N cool, gotta go with Ringo on mixin electronics N water.   So how long to get parts when it screws up?  How much of the wall or shower has to come back out to work on it?   LMAO .....  this coming from the guy that couldn't understand why you couldn't JUSTA get up N chance the channel on the TV.   Instead you spend 10 mins searching the house for the remote.

, yes True JustA, but you would have a water pump at your place? thats power with water, and electric jug, water bed, fish tank ? 😜

thing with this mixer valve is the power supply has a transformer down to 12 volts dc, plus the power supply too the transformer is on a rcd circuit (residual current device), that trips the circuit if there is a imbalance between the active and neutral withing 30 milliseconds)

 basically you couldn't fry yourself if you stuck your fingers in the power socket

[Frosty]

2 hours ago, Ringo64 said:

I have a TON of tech in my house. I love it but none of it operates critical items or things like this are a little too close to shocking me for my comfort. Maybe in 5 years or more when they perfect it I'll be down  

Sissy! 

Edited October 26, 2020 by Frosty

[JUSTA6]

4 hours ago, Frosty said:

JUSTA - there were remote control when we were kids. JUSTA not the battery driven kind. Dad would whack one of us up the side of the head with a slipper or newspaper, and say "Hey kid, change the channel to Channel 4. It's time for Flipper!". We'd get up and turn the channel to Channel 4 and rub the back of our heads on the way back to our seats. It worked!

Got that backwards buddy.  Dad we are watching flipper or I'm gonna mess up the tin foil on the rabbit ears.   DAAAAD you can watch what you want in the living room.  We can't even go in there. 

[JUSTA6]

2 hours ago, 64 kiwi boni said:

, yes True JustA, but you would have a water pump at your place? thats power with water, and electric jug, water bed, fish tank ? 😜

thing with this mixer valve is the power supply has a transformer down to 12 volts dc, plus the power supply too the transformer is on a rcd circuit (residual current device), that trips the circuit if there is a imbalance between the active and neutral withing 30 milliseconds)

 basically you couldn't fry yourself if you stuck your fingers in the power socket

Have installed ground fault plugs on everything close to water, including outside sockets and the 1st plug in my garage.  Saves me a trip inside when I pop the breaker on the ground fault.  Was more concerned about repair......When, it screws up.  Looks like your setup is/gonna be, buried in the wall.

[Ringo64]

1 hour ago, Frosty said:

Sissy! 

 I lived through my childhood. Definitely being a sissy now as I think I'm on my 9th life.

[Last Indian]

Ok! Ok! Seriously! It’s 110! It’s not like you’re going to feel anything! I’ve been zapped several times in my life, (lucky bastard)! You just need to let go!  Ok so 50 volts or less and less than 1 amp can have you looking down on your own body! But it won’t hurt!😁

[64 kiwi boni]

10 hours ago, JUSTA6 said:

Have installed ground fault plugs on everything close to water, including outside sockets and the 1st plug in my garage.  Saves me a trip inside when I pop the breaker on the ground fault.  Was more concerned about repair......When, it screws up.  Looks like your setup is/gonna be, buried in the wall.

ah, thats why its in the ceiling space mate, if it does shit itself for at least the next 5 years its under warranty, after that, well.... i will worry about it then, 

10 hours ago, JUSTA6 said:

Got that backwards buddy.  Dad we are watching flipper or I'm gonna mess up the tin foil on the rabbit ears.   DAAAAD you can watch what you want in the living room.  We can't even go in there. 

wtf !!! you had 2 tellys as a kid

[64 kiwi boni]

7 hours ago, Last Indian said:

Ok! Ok! Seriously! It’s 110! It’s not like you’re going to feel anything! I’ve been zapped several times in my life, (lucky bastard)! You just need to let go!  Ok so 50 volts or less and less than 1 amp can have you looking down on your own body! But it won’t hurt!😁

yeah !! justA, whats wrong with a bit of electricity 

 

[Frosty]

16 hours ago, JUSTA6 said:

Got that backwards buddy.  Dad we are watching flipper or I'm gonna mess up the tin foil on the rabbit ears.   DAAAAD you can watch what you want in the living room.  We can't even go in there. 

If you said that to my dad!!! You'd have an ear ache and a butt ache and you'd miss "Flipper" because you were in your room crying:

 

[JUSTA6]

7 hours ago, 64 kiwi boni said:

ah, thats why its in the ceiling space mate, if it does shit itself for at least the next 5 years its under warranty, after that, well.... i will worry about it then, 

wtf !!! you had 2 tellys as a kid

The COLOR TV was in the living room.  We had the Black N white in the basement.

1 hour ago, Frosty said:

If you said that to my dad!!! You'd have an ear ache and a butt ache and you'd miss "Flipper" because you were in your room crying:

 

Yea I walked with a limp for most of my childhood.  Remember..... our teachers could drill ya through the wall with a paddle as well. 

[Last Indian]

13 hours ago, 64 kiwi boni said:

ah, thats why its in the ceiling space mate, if it does shit itself for at least the next 5 years its under warranty, after that, well.... i will worry about it then, 

wtf !!! you had 2 tellys as a kid

We had JustA one black & white! Which I never saw since I was the antenna! 🥺