What kind of fucked shower knob turns counterclockwise
Australian, just like their toilets spinning water the other way.
If I remember correctly Mythbusters disproved that. It depends entirely on the way you pull the plug.
Well, essentially, it’s that the coriolis effect, while a real thing, is much weaker than most other factors in play. If everything else is neutralised or near to it, the coriolis would indeed be the remaining decider, but that’s very unlikely in practice.
The coriolis effect has nothing to do with this. The coriolis ‘force’ is not a real force, it’s just the product of things trying to move in a straight line on a rotating surface which to observers on that surface looks like a curve which implies a accelerating force. Usually this applies to things flying through the air, because the are moving independent from the ground. Something that is not a force can not influence something like the water in a thub.
What people confuse the coriolis force with is the centrifugal force of the earth’s rotation. But this force increases radialy but is tangetialy evenly distributed, which means it’s symmetrical so it doesn’t matter which hemisphere you’re in. It doesn’t point ‘left’ or ‘right’ it only points ‘out’ or ‘up’. Unless you’re right on one of earths rotational axis none of those effects matter.
USA checking in with one almost exactly like the picture
The ones at my gym.
In seriousness, it’s often about water pressure and how your hot water is fed. If you have very high water pressure normally but a solar hot water system where gravity and input pressure play a role, you’ll naturally have an imbalance on hot and cold. When you turn the handle on the shower you’re lining up two holes in the shower cartridge (in the handle) with the two hot and cold water pipes, the resulting mix comes out a third hole which feeds the shower head. As you turn the handle, one hole opening gets smaller and the other bigger- thereby changing the ratio of hot : cold. When you already have a huge pressure of cold water pumping in, the degree of rotation needed to go from warm/almost just right to PURE HOT WATER is minuscule. Usually the cold will stay pretty cold for about half of the handle range of motion too.
If water input pressure being high is a problem you can put a reducing valve on your system overall or you can buy Venturi style pumps which add pressure into your hot water system.
You’ll normally find when it’s pressure imbalance that it’s easier to balance the temp when the tap isn’t open full bore. But who wants a weak-ass shower stream!!
Observe while I shower comfortably with:
When I first moved to Japan over twenty years ago they were already about a hundred years ahead of typical US toilet/bath technology. For me, using one of these faucets where you can just set the temperature by number was like Liko getting beamed from her hut directly onto the damn Enterprise.
Growing up in rural France, we had these at home for as far as I can remember. They may not have been the norm 30 years ago, but at least common.
Interesting, so it adjusts the flow of hot/cold in the fly to keep a consistent temp? That’s amazing, thought I imagine it would have the same issue I have at the end of the shower where it’s on 100% hot just to eke out a bit more time
Yes, but that is not a fair comparison, these are European.
This technology is only possible with degree Celsius. It is impossible to adapt to degree Fahrenheit.
You might have a point there
Except British homes which have two separate showerheads, one fully hot and the other fully cold.
The trick is to spin.
British when straight into inventing the radar and completely skipped over the invention of warm water.
Ah wel… the British have always been a bit particular to be honest.
I really don’t understand how this is still not the standard everywhere… The cheapest ones aren’t even that expensive and already way better than the alternative… Don’t think I’ve not showered with one of these in the last 25 years, except for in some kind of social housing projects homes.
What is this?
Thermostatic faucet
Okay I’m gonna be real. I didn’t understand the meme at first and thought you were showing a melted door handle and the guy in the meme was trying to melt another door handle with his mind
I was fully prepared to read a bunch of comments about how are door handles so sensitive to heat due to their metallic composition and how you absolutely cannot melt things with your mind that the actual comments tripped me
You need at least the heat of your hand to melt metals. Or at least at least the heat of a cold but not cold wave winter day.
Weird.
I saw “melts tungsten” and my brain decided this was in German.
Same lmfao
I think it’s so late here that I assume Lemmy is sprechening Deutsch by default
So there are lots of good answers, but there’s one I haven’t seen: The type of shower control in the photo is probably low quality, cheap, meaning the internal parts do a poor job of mixing the hot/cold water.
Adjusting the water heater may help, but you might also consider upgrading the shower faucet.
Your water heater is set too hot or you don’t have a mixing valve after your water heater
i adjusted my heaters max temp to what i like and just turn shower/faucet to the hottest setting in winter or lower in the summer.
My heater only heats while water is flowing through. Otherwise it cools down.
This may have consequences not killing things that like thriving in warm water.
Could be an issue in some cases, but mine only heats while water is flowing through. Otherwise it cools down. Also the input water in my region is clean and drinkable, so it hasn’t enough food for germs.
Inline heating is pretty safe to do that, aye. I’d worry about listeria in a tepid storage tank.
The cartridge is likely bad. They get clogged up with lime scale over time and start to perform worse and worse. Either replace the cartridge or the whole faucet itself.
Probably American build.
Yep, if China had products at this quality and price point muricans would never shut up.
Turn down the temperature of your water heater.
Because it is hard to make a cheap valve that has a wide mixing ‘sweet spot’.
Rich people showers don’t have this problem
i saw a comment on a meme like this that said some water mixing thing was broken
There are several possible causes to this problem, but that one is the most common.
You should just move to a more tropical area. Where I live, I only ever use the “Cold” tap and sometimes, even that is too warm.
That’s how it is for me in the summer, and Jersey ain’t exactly tropical. But it’s kinda nice being able to just turn on the shower and get in. The cold water is likecold in the summers, and it’s usually humid, so a shower with no hot water ends up very refreshing.
Nah, Brougham.
All the way to the left, then back off 1/16".
Burn me, baby.
i can just turn the hot on and use that only. the water heater is so far away (have a walk-up, and it is in the basement) that the water is usually just about right when it gets all the way up here.
