LED Showerhead "Color Fusion" changes water color!
fuzzi...@yahoo.com
showerhead. It's embedded LED lights change the color of the water
coming out based on the water temperature! From Blue for cold to Red
for hot. No batteries, no wiring. Its also a low-flow water conserving
showerhead and looks very nice. Just twist it on the way you would any
other showerhead! It's powered by the water running through it. Its a
unique item. Check it out at www.dvnation.com. Its at the bottom of
the main page.
C. Massey
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Just what every frugal person has on their shopping list...
Now I just need strobe lights and a fog machine to go with it... Wait... I
already have a fog machine in the shower...
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"C. Massey" <ch...@host.invalid> wrote:
> Just what every frugal person has on their shopping list...
>
> Now I just need strobe lights and a fog machine to go with it... Wait... I
> already have a fog machine in the shower...
>
Get another! And, hey, how about this 36-inch mirrored ball? Now all you
need is the BeeGees! Disco NEKKED!
PaPaPeng
This gizmo should be a MUST HAVE for the showers of elderly folks and
nursing homes. We get occasional reports of bad scaldings and even
scalding deaths in nursing homes because the overworked caregiver did
not test the temperature before putting her/his charge into the
shower. This device seems an excellent safety reminder.
Rod Speed
Makes a lot more sense to have the system regulate
the temp instead of just reporting it in that situation.
C. Massey
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Yeah, but how many hips get broken from the old people discoing in the
shower?
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Don K
Hardly! It's not going to differentiate between a scalding temperature
and a nice, warm, comfortable temperature. They will both show red.
If you want a safety device, you should invest in an automatic temperature
control valve with a safety temperature cutoff rather than spending
$169 on a novelty gizmo.
Don
PaPaPeng
wrote:
>Hardly! It's not going to differentiate between a scalding temperature
>and a nice, warm, comfortable temperature. They will both show red.
I did think it over. It should be relatively easy for the
manufacturer to add a circuit or bimetallic contact so that the LEDs
will turn yellow at a preset comfortable shower temperature. Red its
too hot. Yellow OK. Blue is cold. I still haven't figured out how
the LEDs light up without a power source (batteries?)
>
>If you want a safety device, you should invest in an automatic temperature
>control valve with a safety temperature cutoff rather than spending
>$169 on a novelty gizmo.
Quite aside from $169 there is also the cost of hiring a plumber to
install the control valve. Or is this a DIY screw on? Any URL
source?
Anthony Matonak
> ... I still haven't figured out how
> the LEDs light up without a power source (batteries?)
They have a power source, hydro power. They have a small turbine
that is spun by the water pressure which then produces electricity.
You'll note that the water pressure coming out of these kind of
things is significantly lower than regular shower heads.
Anthony
Beeblebrox
> I did think it over. It should be relatively easy for the
> manufacturer to add a circuit or bimetallic contact so that the LEDs
> will turn yellow at a preset comfortable shower temperature. Red its
> too hot. Yellow OK. Blue is cold. I still haven't figured out how
> the LEDs light up without a power source (batteries?)
it says it's powered by the water going through it. Hydroelectric power;
think Hoover Dam.
PaPaPeng
Presumably the mechanism is similar to the no batteries require LED
flashlight that you shake to charge up the the electrical storage
unit. Seems ot me an unecessary complexity just to light up a shower
spray. Batteries, including button batteries, are so cheap these
days it would have been more sensible to use batteries to power the
LEDs.
Beeblebrox
sounds pretty ridiculous to put in batteries when there's a potential
power source already flowing through the thing. I don't see how it's
similar to a shake flashlight at all. Running water is already present,
just add a tiny wheel inside, generate power from water.
Don K
>
> sounds pretty ridiculous to put in batteries when there's a potential power source already
> flowing through the thing. I don't see how it's similar to a shake flashlight at all. Running
> water is already present, just add a tiny wheel inside, generate power from water.
It's similar in the sense that changing the magnetic field near a
wire causes current to flow in the wire.
Don
Don K
Home Depot has a bunch selling from 20 bucks to a few hundred.
Here's a 30 dollar one.
http://www.shower-faucets.com/06623000.html
Don
Dennis
>Presumably the mechanism is similar to the no batteries require LED
>flashlight that you shake to charge up the the electrical storage
>unit. Seems ot me an unecessary complexity just to light up a shower
>spray. Batteries, including button batteries, are so cheap these
>days it would have been more sensible to use batteries to power the
>LEDs.
We're talking about a light-up shower head for god's sake. Sensible
doesn't enter into it. ;-)
Dennis (evil)
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PaPaPeng
<beeblebr...@barlick.net> wrote:
> Running water is already present,
>just add a tiny wheel inside, generate power from water.
I am not aware there is such a device that can directly convert the
mechanical motion of tiny wheels into electricity. You still need a
moving permanent magnet inside a stator coil plus the related wiring
to deliver the electricity to the LEDs. That magnet and coil has to
be of a certain size. Too small and there isn't enough juice to do
any useful work (power the LEDs). Too small and it will be physically
too fragile for service inside a showerhead. To fit a miniature
turbine powered generator into a showerhead is precision engineering
and complexity. No I won't buy one of those showerheads to take it
apart and see what make it tick. But you will have to provide a more
believeable technical description.
Beeblebrox
> On Sat, 29 Apr 2006 07:10:50 GMT, PaPaPeng <PaPa...@yahoo.com> wrote:
>
>
>>Presumably the mechanism is similar to the no batteries require LED
>>flashlight that you shake to charge up the the electrical storage
>>unit. Seems ot me an unecessary complexity just to light up a shower
>>spray. Batteries, including button batteries, are so cheap these
>>days it would have been more sensible to use batteries to power the
>>LEDs.
>
>
> We're talking about a light-up shower head for god's sake. Sensible
> doesn't enter into it. ;-)
>
> Dennis (evil)
now there's the only decent argument i've heard in this whole thread.