Bathroom water heaters

Installation has 40a mcb radial to electric shower. The bathroom has bad hot water supply. Could another instantaneous (or storage type I if not possible) water heater be installed on some circuit provided the switch is outside room and changeover type so both appliances can’t run at same time? Thanks 

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  • That sounds like one option. Although 40+A change-over switches are neither small nor pretty, and probably isn't that convenient (too easy to forget to switch back after a shower, so no hot water elsewhere). An automatic  'shower priority switch' (a.k.a. a load shedding relay) is sometimes a neater solution if the supply isn't meaty enough for both (e.g. www.meteorelectrical.com/.../garo-1-row-shower-priority-metal-board.html )

    Depending on the supply and other loads you might be OK just wiring both in normally (there are plenty of domestics with two or more instantaneous electric showers on a normal single phase supply which have given years of trouble free service, regardless of what the OSG might say about diversity).

    Or these days of pressurized hot water cylinders, a simple immersion arrangement (especially one that can do the bulk of the heating from an off-peak supply) can be a quite workable solution, if you have the space.

       - Andy.

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  • That sounds like one option. Although 40+A change-over switches are neither small nor pretty, and probably isn't that convenient (too easy to forget to switch back after a shower, so no hot water elsewhere). An automatic  'shower priority switch' (a.k.a. a load shedding relay) is sometimes a neater solution if the supply isn't meaty enough for both (e.g. www.meteorelectrical.com/.../garo-1-row-shower-priority-metal-board.html )

    Depending on the supply and other loads you might be OK just wiring both in normally (there are plenty of domestics with two or more instantaneous electric showers on a normal single phase supply which have given years of trouble free service, regardless of what the OSG might say about diversity).

    Or these days of pressurized hot water cylinders, a simple immersion arrangement (especially one that can do the bulk of the heating from an off-peak supply) can be a quite workable solution, if you have the space.

       - Andy.

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