South american design

>Why do you need electricity for a shower?
They lack hot water tanks so they don't actually have a hot water line.

Why does it have to be in the shower head though? Couldn't they set something out of the shower?

Holy shit that would easily kill you

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What's that?

youtube.com/watch?v=FoqcJYdgW54

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don't blame the enitre continent for shits only Brazil does

actually yes, there's this new model but i haven't seen its price yet

a shit electrical technician's day of work

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Now we can, but back then this was the simplest and cheapest solution that could be devised. Though people are very set in their ways, and external water heaters are still pretty expensive, so the electric showerhead remains in widespread use.

Non one believes me when I say that there's no harm in them, the ones posted in these threads are always terrible installations, though the whole point of these is that you can install them yourself instead of calling a professional.

That's a Brazilian thing, not very common here at least

btw tanks are shit, been there, done that, didn't get enough hot water pressure, took it off

Do brazilians really do this? Lol.

it is, but normally is better wired

youtube.com/watch?v=FuQ_AAkkgIg

Been there. It's true and scary.

this one is poorly installed. only in favelas you will find shit like this.

You might have never seen it, but it is very common here

it is commom in all third world

they already aren't using

and paraguay

> very
Not really. Like out 100 households maybe 20 at most have them. Vast majority of houses have gas heaters

I hear it's only common in South America, in Mexico and central American countries, and in poor countries of Asia and Africa they don't exist.I don't know for sure how true that is, though.

no. it is commom in all third world
SEA, central asia, all of it

Poors here use wood and fire. They dont even have the gas

>gas heaters

I've never in my life heard of anyone being so much as injured because of electric showers, but people dying in their showers because of scent-less gas leaking from their heaters is something that you'll see on the news once or twice a year.

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i was going to reply to him >becase mexicans have a lot of gaspiping like the argentinians
but you proved me wrong before typing it

>people dying in their showers because of scent-less gas leaking

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I think you are thinking about carbon monoxide, which is not the same as natural gas used in household heaters

Hot water tanks are ancient, dated tech. No new development has them and hasn't for a decade now.

why change what works fine?

.... i don't know if they work fine tho, never had one
gas is far more expensive than electricity in here

They don't work fine, they're incredibly inefficient and waste a shit load of gas with cycle heating, they literally constantly heat the water thats in them as it cools to make sure its always at the right temperature, so that's burning gas every time the water temp drops a few degrees all day long just so you can shower in the morning.

They are also momentarily finite which can be a problem with big families/shared households if they all shower around the same time each day taking turns as the tank can empty out faster than it can heat more water.

They're basically being phased out entirely here in place of tankless on demand systems, which can be both gas and electric (though gas takes a bit longer to reach full temperature, about 30 seconds)

We don't have it in ex-USSR

IT IS SIMPLE, CHEAP AS FUCK AND IT WORKS
GET OVER IT AUTISTIC FUCKS

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I just use a boiler that I turn off when not in use

>cz
switch that out for a taurus, a brazilian gun manufacturer

youtube.com/watch?v=2fn6GFSwTEw

SIMPLE CHEAP AND IT WORKS

what the fuck are you talking about

TAURUS DOESN'T FUCKING WORK YOU MOTHERFUCKER, IT IS DIFFERENT FROM OUR SHOWERS.

It's peak performance design.

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Nice kot

>all these oh so terrible posts
Say geniuses, what's the difference with a regular electrical heater? The problem with these isn't the shower itself, but how they installed it. It would be the same thing if you had them install a heater.

youtube.com/watch?v=FuQ_AAkkgIg
It's literally just some coils run though the water, holy shit how is this even legal to sell?
Because they are poor and stupid, they'd rather die than spend $150 on a cheap water heater

the way i see it, there's two complaints here:
- the heater in the electric shower is right above your head. or in the case of lanklets, near your face. you can hear the resistance thingie crackle and that scares these millenials
- the shitty rigs that are usually posted aren't properly grounded, and the cables are all exposed to water and moist
what usually happens however is that, instead of killing millions of people per day (since southamericans shower daily) is that these cute devices get fried and usually take down the whole house electric grid with them, all because of a hilariousy sloppy job at installing them

Don't compare yourself to me, faggot.
We use portable water heaters, which is 100x worse.

youtu.be/c2stI1pLkm8?t=4s

Hey their revolvers work, I just wouldn't touch any of their semi autos

>earn 400 usd a month
>150 is a "cheap" heater

For an entire house and for something that you'll only need to buy once and it will increase the value of said house if you sell it, yes

i actually earn 170 USD a month

how many """gallons""" do you recommend for a "family" of 8?

A 50 gallon tank is probably more than enough if you don't stay in there all day, those are around $300-$400 in the US, should be cheaper where you live.
And again, it will make the resale value of the home go up

Wait isn't that electric water heater better though?