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So, my thoughts as an Electrical Engineer from Brazil: It's pretty rare to get a shock from the shower head directly even if installed incorrectly due to the fact that the tap water in droplets doesn't conduct a lot of water and the shower head is made out of plastic. In properly installed residences, it has its sole running circuit from its own breaker to the shower and uses 220V power (we have both 110V/127V and 220V over here) to dissipate less heat in the wires. It is way more common that due to not installing the ground wire or the resistance correctly that it contacts the pipe (in older houses made out of steel) and give you a shock on the handles when opening or closing the water. In that case, a quick fix that most Brazilians do is either use a rubber mat or a rubber flip-flop (which is ubiquitous over here). To conclude, here the houses are made from brick and mortar and it's way more resistant to electrical fires compared to places like the US or Canada, where the insulating materials can be a hazard for high powered electrical appliances. In my opinion, having a gas pipe installed only for the shower is more hazardous than the solution we've got here, since heat is rarely a problem in a tropical country like ours.
The "grounding 220VAC" thing sounds insane, but otherwise it sounds like you guys have it locked down on these things. i would agree that a gasline is usually more dangerous than a 220VAC connection, especially when run through a GFCI or while operating in a home with RCI. Atleast there are those omnipresent fail safes that pop automatically, and electricity doesn't linger and present a massive fire hazard.
@@toilet_cleaner_man the electric shower I have as a backup to the solar assisted boiler I have in my house is a the same brand as his but it is a much much larger and has a maximum load of 7800w lol so it is connected to a 220V and a 50A breaker with thicker gauge wiring.
I just ground my new shower head with an eight foot copper rod buried in the ground. Ah, the happiness of opening and closing without the slightest fear of those inconvenient shocks when our nail is excessively cut. In time, you totally summed up the situation. And yes, I can bet that there are more accidents in the US and Canada due to gas leaks, or even the explosion of the water tank than we have fatal victims of shock from that shower. I've lived in a building whose builder was from Canada, it was an old building but they used a gas heater in each apartment that heated a 100-liter tank, one day the manometer gave out, and if my father hadn't gone to check it (he had started making noises), probably an accident would have happened. It's like the engineer already said, for each place the more they use it, the more they become experts in that subject and mitigate the risks.
@@toilet_cleaner_manIn Brazil we use RCD, which is almost a GFCI, except that it goes together with the circuit breakers, if there is any current leakage it trips, in Portuguese this piece is called Disjuntor DR.
Actually in Brazil most of the house's are made of bricks and concrete, and not wood like in the US and Canada. So is more difficult to it actually burn in a fire.
@@arthurizando the wires can still catch on fire though. It happened to me, but luckily where they caught on fire was where the wires connect to the meter outside the house.
I just renovated the electric installation in my bathroom here in Brazil, and I had to run 6mm wires for the shower into a 32A circuit breaker. You definitely DO NOT plug these into a regular outlet.
I would shit myself cuz I'd zone out for 5 seconds and then he'd touch a wire and a godamn boom would ring out, the lights would go out and then I'd have a heart attack
Let's also remember that water is a poor conductant. If it was salty water then it would be a whole diferent story. Here in Brazil we have the majority of showers eletrically heated and a minority heated by a buthane/methane mixture. It is common to read about asfixiation accidents related to gas heating, but in 53 year I've never heard of a deadly accident involving eletric showerheads. The wire gauge and breaker are highly regulated when you build a house.
i have all three types. the main building in my house has central heating for water, the annex uses suicide showers, and i have an apartment in rio de janeiro that uses butane, which is by far the worst and most dangerous type. oh, i actually have a fourth type. at one of my farms there one which uses iron piping that goes through the fireplace's chimney and get heated that way. it also has a suicide shower on top of that but since it's the middle of nowhere it's exclusively powered by gas generators since power lines don't go there, so it doesn't get much use.
I could be wrong, so feel free to correct me, but I'm not aware of anything called buthane. Butane would be closest, but is typically only used in lighters and not for home heating. Usually, "natural gas" (at least that's what it's called where I'm from but I'm sure it varies country-to-country) is usually methane and ethane. Water is heated differently in different countries, and I don't know what the benefits and downsides are in each case. In terms of water heater tanks, the risk is always a steam explosion or Boiling Liquid Expanding Vapour Explosion (BLEVE). It doesn't matter what the heat source is, but they are absolutely devastating. In terms of that, it may be smarter to heat smaller amounts of liquid directly at the source; similar to these shower-heads or on-demand heaters rather than a huge vat of water that could, if enough safety systems fail, reach the boiling point. I'm not particularly for or against any of these systems, but thought I'd add my two cents; maybe someone will teach me more!
@@massdefect1 Butane in mixture with propane happens to be used for heating, though in my area (Poland) pure propane is more popular as there are problems with butane when it's stored in negative temperatures (it doesn't evaporate or something like that). Natural gas is used when you have access to gas pipleine, but otherwise you install one of those huge white tanks in the backyard, which gets refilled with propane, or mixture of propane and butane. Maybe some countries (e.g. in warmer regions of the world) use pure butane. Mixture of propane and butane is used in those small 11kg gas cylinders to which you can connect the kitchen stove (if it's gas powered and you have no access to gas pipeline, or to that huge backyard tank).
I'm from Brazil. Here, most houses use an electric shower and accidents rarely happen. The showers reach 7,500 Watts and most of the time copper cable of 6 mm² is used.
@@scotts1668 i did the math, Watts are Volts * Amps so for 220V, its 220*19= 4180Watts, and for 150V (idk if the amps may change but) 150*19=2850Watts. If yours is 7000W that means you are dealing with 31Amps. (suposing a 220V AC) lol thats a pretty ineficient sh1t
@@scotts1668 It could be 7500W, he's 5000w so im not surprised if you find a little more powerful one, but i think it would burn the electric wires therefore. unless you have your instalation with 8mm^2 copper wire, wich is very expensive and useless for your bathroom. Just think a normal house needs 4.5KW and you are spending 5kW in a fking heater lol
I live in Brazil and never heard of someone being electrocuted in shower, even though most houses do not ground their showers. Always wanted to know how the hell it is possible. Great video!
My grandmother was eletrocutd once, but she has survived. The place used to be 220v (Santos-SP) and not grounded. In all houses that I know the electrical shower is always grounded
We have two of these showerheads in our house. The first one was installed by an (unauthorized) electrician. It shocks me occasionally when I touch the faucet. I don’t like using it lmao. The second one was installed by my mom who is definitely not an authorized electrician either, but she still managed to make a better job with the second one. It does not shock me! Although the ground cable is definitely just hanging out in the air. It terrifies me still. Thanks mom!
As a brazilian, providing you install it according to the specs, I can tell you it's super safe and more eco friendly than gas shower. Also, pretty much every brazilian I know got a few electrical discharges from "suspicious" places, like when you go to some sketchy air BNB, or some hostel in the middle of nowhere, or some high poverty area. I've got a few of those myself from the shower faucet, and it's not "terrible". Not pleasant, but def not gonna kill you or anything. PS: Also in those sketchy places we would shower using rubber sandals to prevent that lol.
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Greetings, I'm Brazilian and really here in Brazil 90% of households use electric showers, and there are very few reports of accidents involving electric showers. Few residences use gas showers, in buildings and buildings it is more common to use showers with gas heating due to the number of residents, if they were electric showers the installations would not support such an electric current. Our electric showers range from 5,500W to 7,800W with very high currents. Our houses are prepared with their own installations and exclusive for this equipment, copper wires of up to 10mm² and circuit breakers of up to 50A are used to support it! Hugs!
Here in Brasil (HUE-land) we use these showers everywhere with no problems because: 1- the power grid of our houses are made with this kind of shower in mind (50+ amps). 2- we don't use them this close to our body, it's a hot country and we install our showers higher, close to the ceiling, the power outlet usually come from the ceiling, far from most people's reach. PS: our standard ceiling is 9~10 feet tall, again, hot country.
@@Shadownrun2 another huehuehue here. I think there's something more to it, many Brazilian homes (including mine) haven't got ground circuits and yet nobody gets electrocuted.
Mehdi: "So if this is installed absolutely correctly by a professional..." We, brazilians: "Lemme look on youtube how to fix my shower without powering my house down..."
@@KamuiPan 1.in eastern Europe, if you've got enough money, you can even buy your doctors degree. A title means nothing, if it's holder can't do shit he's supposed to 2. Power outlets right next to shower pipes would be a total nightmare for ne as a learned electrician. 3. As he demonstrated, these things pull a shitload of current even when heating just a little. Normal house wiring is rated for 19.5A (breaker at 16) when installed inside walls or a max of 29A (breaker at 25) when placed inside a double ceiling or similar, where there is air around the cable, meaning it has a very good potential of setting your whole damn house on fire with burning cables if you're not careful enough. To be clear, I'm talking about usual 2.5mm² wires, usually used for outlets. There are some applications (like in everyday European bathrooms WITHOUT a outlet or inside most campers/ trains/ buses where they only use 1.5mm² changing this to 16.5/16A to 21/20A
@Joshua M Generally speaking, most sinks don't have the option for hot water(maybe because here is so hot that it warms up by itself), however, the few that actually have it work pretty much the same way as the shower heads. This video is pretty nice, even though it's in portuguese: I'm sure sure you will at least be able to see how the user end works. ua-cam.com/video/4P9W9hDZZgg/v-deo.html
How tf people kill themselves with gas heated water?? Darwin award for sure. With a water heater tank heated by a gas pilot light, the water gets heated in a central location the distributed. Having a carbon monoxide detector is best for safety, but if properly maintained you shouldn't have a worry about CO. I'll take my chances with gas any day rather than an electrical circuit a foot from my head heating water. Much safer to have centrally heated water via electric too, with instead of a gas pilot light you have two (an upper and lower) resistors that heat the tank of water.
@@MisterPlanePilot Unfortunately it happens sometimes here. I had a very young online friend who died due to a bad installation of a gas shower, it was very tragic. But I do see generally a trend to be couples who die together this way, probably they were having sex, spent a long time in the shower and the instalation was bad as well so they eventually pass out together.
Gianluca Ghettini well it deepens, it seems to me that it changes the frequency not the duty cycle like in PWM where there is a fixed frequency and changes the on and off duration (or it just has a thermostat)
Afaik, it wouldn't be a PWM because it's turning off and back on (i.e. 0hz->normal hz), right? You'd be better off just making an timer based on the clock of the oven that ticks it on and off.
I've always been freaked out by the exposed wiring over the shower heads here in Brazil. It's just kinda creepy to have that in the shower. Also it was common to be shocked when turning the knobs
@@DinnerForkTongue yup, this problem is caused more by the "we finish it later" attitude that Brazilians have, everything is temporary, forever, not an inherent problem with the showers
@@devforfun5618 O negócio é que o ditado "não existe nada mais permanente do que uma solução provisória" é *_global._* Não é exclusividade de nós brazucas não.
@@DinnerForkTongue é, mas ironicamente na terra da liberade é mais facil voce levar uma multa por uma instalação que não segue as normas do que no Brasil
Actually not, if overheating starts by the lack of neutral the element will just melt together with the plastic connections it's design to do it, the place will probably smell of burned plastic but that' it, I never have heard of any fire cause by a shower like this. Actually there's more deaths linked to fires or accidents in home boiler installations then with these eletric showers.
It's called testing your hypothesis. He assumed it would be dangerous, and he tested it out. It's science-y.... I have to give him credit that he actually tests out his hypothesis as opposed to just assuming it's unsafe without testing it.
Although it doesn't seem like it, these electric showers are very safe nowadays (I say nowadays, because in the past, in the first electric shower models, the piping was all metal, so the risk of getting shocked when turning on the valve was high, and the the shower was activated using a disconnector switch and the risk of you turning on the shower while wet was also very high) they are even safer than gas showers, here in Brazil it is very rare for accidents involving electric showers, when it does happen, it is usually because the person forgot to turn off the circuit breaker to change the resistance, or else, for some reason, probably incorrect installation, it caught fire, on the other hand, every year when winter arrives, cases of people who died of asphyxiation due to monoxide are very common. of carbon that leaked from the gas heater,
@@JoseFerreira-nk5kq Yeah exept if the connection of the neutral conductor is loose and it's not grounded, or you touch a bad isolated phase (wet and only isolated with scotchtape), you gona die. Change the conductivity of the water (Drop salt or dirt in the tank on the roof) and it will kill you too. In fact there is a lot of science behind.
Well I Installed and replace the resistance in a bunch of these back in Brazil. We do have thicker wires running for those, and there were some older models that the case was made of metal and would give you a little shock when installed improperly and touched. Even 110v house would usually have a second phase to run things like this in 220v, specially in the south where it gets really cold in the winter. Houses in Brazil are not made of paper like here so that helps with the not setting everything on fire as well. A funny comeback is that other countries are the brave ones for running piped gas everywhere and within their house. Either way I have never heard of anyone gettin hurt with these showers, and Brazilians alone probably take daily showers equivalent to the rest of the world together.
Speaking truths! Americans freak out when they see those shower heads but forget they have open flames sometimes on 20+ year old boilers in their basements and piped, pressurized gas running within their walls, and that added to the fact that homes here in the US are built out of wood. 😅 but those showers are the dangerous ones. Go figure!
@@guedesfhp both are dangerous, it's just a matter of time before one baboon messes with things they don't understand and KAPOOF, they're with Jesus. They're playing Russian roulette but with their House
The "House in Brazil are not made of paper" made me giggle 😂 One problem when I see with this kind of video, is that even the most technical ones seems to ignore the fact that safety regulations do exist outside of north America. Like, there as a bunch of rules and regulations to make sure that the wiring of the house are done correctly, even if we have to admit that most people want to ignore that, but electricians have to follow the guidelines regardless. I'll be -hopefully- a electrical engineer by the end of this year, and a lot of my dally activity is read those boring norms to not kill myself in the future. lol
@@Marcos_Tired Of course there's safety regulations outside of the US, but I do question how many people ignore those considering even in the US, I've seen some.. Not very legal wiring (Hell, I live in one of those houses right now loll). Early congrats on becoming an Electrical Engineer btw! Electrical Engineering is the field I want to go into, but I'm only 18 and at the very VERY beginning of even learning what anything means haha! Hope life serves ya well, take it easy and have fun!
8:15 ElectroBOOM: “When the water comes to your eyes or your mouth, it can really hurt” Also ElectroBOOM: *_lets try it out_* Its like he _wants_ to die
Here in Brazil about 90% of the houses do not have grounding and we connect the ground wire in the neutral. edit: taporra tem BR pra caramba aqui kkkkk
Using an electric shower requires some care that we learned as a child in Brazil. The shower should not be close to the head; the temperature selector switch must not be touched while it is on; taking a shower using rubber slippers is recommended in places where the electrical installation is precarious; and there must be a circuit breaker just for the shower. Electric shocks in the bathroom are common, but they are usually minor. I believe that the main risk of electric showers is the fires they can cause. We already had a shower that caught fire in my house, and it has also occurred to me that I was in the bathroom on a day of hydraulic instability and the shower element turned on by itself, causing a near fire that I managed to prevent by turning it off immediately (if I hadn't been there seeing it, it would have caught fire).
I can imagine this guy's phone conversation with his wife: "Honey, why is the fire squad at our home again?" "Oh, I was trying to see if I could electrocute myself with a shower head. Turns out, no, it won't electrocute you, but it may set your house on fire." "Uh-huh." " Oh! And I got a new sponsor, too!"
It's funny because these showers, especially from the Lorenzetti brand, are widely used throughout Latin America because of the low cost, I'm from Costa Rica and here at least 80% of showers are of that type. These showers are dangerous only because most people install them improperly without connecting the ground to save money on hiring an electrician. I myself have one well installed and the only problem is the durability of the heating elements, after 4 years it is common to replace them or the entire shower.
Usually when designing a house's eletrical circuits we have one that's physically isolated from the rest specifically for a shower, so that it can have it's own breaker and thicker wires. Not a native speaker so I might have explained it poorly. Basically we know one of the outlets in the bathroom will be the shower, so we design it accordingly.
@@LinuxIsNotAnOperatingSystem Chuveiro elétrico em locais muito frios não adianta. Onde eu moro aqui no Brasil, nos dias mais frios faz próximo de 0°C e o chuveiro elétrico já não dá conta de esquentar bem a água, imagina em um lugar tipo Europa, Canadá onde é frio de verdade, abaixo de 0°C, lá tem que ser chuveiro aquecido gás, normalmente as casas deles tem grandes aquecedores centrais de água que funcionam a gás.
They are quite safe to run if you properly follow the code (which you didn't). In Brazil the way we set them up is by getting a split phase 220v dedicated circuit with very thick wiring just for the showerhead. You can't get shocked by the water and it is against code to wire it to a regular wall socket or without ground. You are supposed to use Wago connectors that can handle very high amperage and the shower head have to be set up very tall, cables should be unreachable and perfectly isolated inside the wall conduit (walls are supposed to be made out of concrete and not cardboard like in north america btw).
Hey, im from brazil and we use this kind of shower a lot. The biggest problem is not being eletrecuted by the water itself. The major problem is on the faucet. When we touch it, we get shock.
@@ritzevespa i belive its a matter of cost and simplicity. No need for pipes for hot water, neither a stead supply of gas or wood. Just a simple pipe for water, a proper wire for the outlet. Its a elegant solution imho
Dad : “What were you watching” Brain : “don’t tell him you are watching an electrician electrocute himself. Huh, what other videos are available on internet ?” Me : “It was a pornography video”
I think one of the funniest things about those shower heads is that yes, depending on how the bathroom wiring was done and if the shower power connection is not properly set you will get shocked. On our old home we had one of those and had an outlet in the same box for an ofuro (Japanese bathtub) electrical heater since my grandma didn’t trust those bathtubs with integrated heating. The idea was pretty much like the idea of American’s and UK bathrooms that have high output concenters do just the bathroom for stuff like heated toilet seats, shaver dedicated plug and shower and bathtub heating.
I'm brazilian and I never heard about death in use of eletric showers. In Brazil is more common to see news about deaths in bathrooms that use gas heated showers (because of gas leak)
Poor installation or failing units will make anything dangerous, however, does the gas there not have an added odor? In the U.S. if there's a gas leak you can smell it.
TheKingHostile In China, it is required to install a gas detector which connects to an electrical valve. Once gas detector detects gas the system will automatically switch off. The main system has a pressure valve as well. Also with the odour I just don’t see how anyone can die from gas...
@@rockbandandghmaster it's a bit trickier than that. Of course gas has added odor in it. I'm from Argentina but i've been in Brasil. Because of the terrain, it is way too hard and expensive to get master natural gas pipes on the neighborhoods. They even have trucks selling compressed gas as if it was icecream. But it's mostly used for other stuff. They're quite strange people most of them doesn't even know what a bidet is hahahaha
@@mtulio-t9z Also if you think any news site is going to have a breaking news section because of an electric shock accident, you are very naive, there are worse things happening on the world.
Brazilian here. The wires are usually very well isolated, and there is usually a breaker installed specifically for the shower head. The design of the one you have is pretty much standard.
It's very normal to install one of these. I guess here in Brazil it is a knowledge passed through generations. And yes, there is a very thick wire in our houses to power the shower. I never heard about someone died by one of these.
Cool video! These showers are indeed pretty common here in Brazil, as they are cheap and require no further heating installation on the house. Since we have quite mild winters, there is no need for general heating. Most places I lived there was a 220V line for the electric shower (Brazil is a mess, we have cities that are 127V and cities that are 220V). But I have already seen some stupid houses with 127V wiring for the shower, which requires thicker wires (and which often are not). Not every house has ground wiring, as it is a relatively new requirement for civil construction, so a lot of people just leave the ground wire off. Two of those showers already exploded in my head (NOT AT ALL A GOOD SCENE TO BE EXPERIENCED), one it was of poor install of the electrician (wires were loose in the connection, they eventually heated up, melted and the phase connected to the neutral, short circuit ftw). The other time the shower was off for a long period, so the resistor was quite oxidated. When I turned it on it shorted and heated up, the shower became red. Oh well, every day taking a shower below these 32A beauties, the joy of living in Brazil :)
In order to keep the power draw the same, if you double the voltage, the current gets divided by a factor of two. Wire is rated by how much current it can handle, so doubling the voltage is an easy way to avoid thicker wires. (I’m not an expert on the matter, so my explanation may be a little off)
Where I work the shower installation used extremely thin wire for a 127v connection, you know the kind that you'd plug lightbulbs with. It's caused the wires to melt on the shower AND the wall. No freaking clue how that got approved. Now we've put in a request for re-wiring the damn thing, and once it's done we'll be good in tha hood.
Don't you have natural gas in houses? A small water heater - either with natural gas or electricity - on the wall of your bathroom can solve the problem, costing $100 - 200. We used to have them in Iran 15 years ago (when we moved to an apartment with hot water, but I think they are still popular)
@@saeedgnu Nope. Gas heating for Brazilian homes is *_WAY_* overkill unless you live in the southern mountains. Ours is a warm country, cold days are few and far between. So much so that our "cold" is less than 20°C.
I love how in order to cross the 10 minute mark he goes off on random tangents when something unexpected happens, like him getting confused from the oven, but unlike other channels it's 1) really fucking funny to watch and 2) still kind of educational and related to the main topic in a way
Its been waaaaay to long since I’ve come across such an interesting and thoughtful UA-camr, he not only keeps his content factual correct but also interesting and he cares about the smaller UA-camrs in the community. A breath of fresh air that this god forsaken site so desperately needs.
0:56 "Since you can buy these in Canada, you would assume that it's tested and safe." Only if it's approved by CSA, cUL(us) or cETLus. Almost certainly the unit you bought has no government oversight and is being sold illegally. For some reason Amazon seems to get a free pass for selling unlicensed products.
Brazilian houses are made using powerful Wires in the bathroom to ensure that the electric shower does not have a problem with the wires not holding.Last month I installed my first shower and it didn't cause any problems and I don't know anything about wiring, and my house doesn't have a ground wire.
The only reason I gather courage to see his video is because I know he is really a smart man that wouldn't do anything that will seriously hurt himself. He knows a lot about this to make it look more dangerous than it actually is. With that said, I would hate to know he got his calculations wrong and done himself right in. But I doubt anyone would upload that video if it did happen. A "bad news" update from someone maybe? But not the actual video, UA-cam will demonitise and remove it straight away.
most places in the world especially first world countries use water heaters to heat up the water, but knowing gas powered shower heads exist, the electric powered ones sound better
@@Gekiko7167 In Brazil we do it too, solar is still uncommon but is used mostly on houses. Apartments use boilers frequently, and quite more people dies from boilers than eletric showerhead.
Brazilians have love and pride about electric showers. They are the main manufacturers of these devices, or at least that's how it seems in Mexican stores. In order to use one of these devices, you must have an independent power line, direct to the electrical box in your home. That line should use cables capable of supporting the maximum amperage of the shower. That line needs its own thermomagnetic switch and, preferably, an independent ground line. Please, an electrician is definitely required.
@@girlsdrinkfeck yeah dude it's standard in even the highest quality apartments. I've literally never seen a heated water shower that isn't heated by one of those suicide showerheads
Good on you for again promoting Bigclivedotcom's video. I agree, he covered the topic very well. (I'll have to look into diodegonewild, sounds interesting) gestures like this are why I am happy to support you on Patreon. Keep up the great work!
lol Bigspazdotlame channel has nothing on electroboom. B Clive disrespects viewers and involves them in arguments they have no idea he is referring to. I commented on one of his videos years ago and received a bunch of backlash that had nothing to do with my comment and was all about him talking about how smart he was 😂 I will never watch a Big Clive video again
Homes in Brazil have separate thicker wiring and higher amp breakers for the shower, if it trips due to heat or whatever, only the shower breaker goes down, only happens when theres something wrong in the installation like bad connections or thin wires. Usually each 110v wire goes into separate 25 amp breakers, and we use at least 5mm wires for the shower alone. Also, this varies based on the wattage used on the model, they vary from 4500w to 7500w for 220v and only up to 5500w for 110v. In Brazil some coastal cities do use 220v/phase while others use 110v+110v for the shower. Also, the wires are connected to a wall socket behind and above it, the connection usually blocked by a plastic cover. Showers like these are the standard here, noone ever gets electrecuted unless they did a horrible installation. Also, there are tons of different models. Brazilian homes usually also have separate wiring and breakers for different rooms like the kitchen.
@Popcorn Vendor Brazil is a vast country with very different places, some of which if were separate, they wouldnt even be considered "third world." There are rich developed cities with very low crime rates, but with such a bigcountry and with places that are indeed violent and dealing with misery, the average ends up being really bad. You can travel within Brazil and feel as if you are in a whole different country.
@Popcorn Vendor well electricians are fairly common here (Argentina, literally next to Brazil) and they'l install anything you want for money. Of course some people do it themselves and end with a house on fire but that's the dumb people anyways. Also this shower head is Brazil only since i never seen one here.
@Popcorn Vendor You know people in 3rd world countries are not stupid as in some 1st world countries (for example only in 1st world country people are stupid enough to not know that plastic surprise in kinder eggs is not eatable so they need to ban them). By the way you are right that Brazil is 3rd world country but reasons you stated are have nothing to do with it. Strictly speaking "Third World" is a political, rather than an economic, grouping it define non-aligned and neutral countries (countries aligned with NATO are the First World, the Communist Bloc the Second World).
So I'm from one of these countries that use a shower like that. Here's some insights: 6:10 - There is no live wire with you in the shower here because the bathroom is already adapted to such showers - just to show how ubiquitous those showers are. Shower heads are installed much higher than Mehdi's (I needed a ladder to install my shower) and there's no loose wires whatsoever, they all go through the wall. 7:39 - Yeah, those things draw a lot of current. Long hot baths could mean a significant raise in your electrical bill. Pretty much everyone here had a parent that got really mad for their kids taking too much time in the shower for that very reason. 7:41 - Yup, but bathrooms' wiring around here are all adapted to this kind of shower. Mehdi's isn't, but in Canada this kind of shower head isn't common there. 9:03 - Actually, installing shower heads like these is something electricians around here do a lot. Also, shower manuals are many times good enough that a person can do the installation themselves (I do it). 9:06 - The only recurring problem people actually have with their shower is improper grounding, but that affects the whole house, not just the shower. I once suffered a mild shock while turning the metal cross handle in the shower of a friend's house. I then noticed that she had already covered the handle with electrical tape, but she missed some spots. So even in those cases, those showers are pretty safe. 9:34 - Why is Mehdi questioning the quality of the shower head? Those things have been around for ages, their design has been optimized over the years, their manufacture is regulated (believe it or not, the government can still do a few things right), houses are all adapted to them and the companies that make them really don't wanna be sued over someone's death. The only problem I find in some showers is low water pressure, but I've never had problems with the heating element. 9:45 - Well, where I live we have 110V AC but I've been to a town in my country that not only uses 220V but also metal pipes, their tap water has a metallic taste so I figure it has some metallic ions on it making it more conductive (I guess, I'm no chemist). I've visited that town many times and took hot showers there, and I felt nothing. No even a slight shock. Maybe the current is double or more, Idk, but it's still safe. Electrical showers may be intimidating to someone who's not used to them and it can actually be dangerous if you install if you leave loose hanging wires in the shower stall like Mehdi did, but other than that, it's pretty safe.
@@pedrodarosamello64 Yep, I don't want to sound like a butthurt brazilian but many people are ignorant in relation to electric showers, if you look at the statistics there much more deaths associated with explosions and fires caused by boilers and gas heating installations than with these type of cheap electric showers.
Loveeeeeeed your video. Brazilian and I used to have my house on 110V, so my Shower Head of Doom ran on ~50A. Usually in Brazil, the electric project of the house is designed to support that high amperage. But besides that, I have never heard anything about any of those catching fire, the worst case that might happen with those is poor insulation so you might get a slight discharge on the water valves. Nothing that a towel doesn't solve (Brazilian kids learn about insulation instinctively)
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I like how you're concerned about other channels. Truly gentleman
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Cyka CheekiBreeki unibrow you mean. Grammar Nazi.
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_How Safe Is the Shower Head of Doom_
5 minutes later: disassembling oven
My favorite part is when he realizes it's just on a timer
Stove top burner, not oven.
John Pythagoras I mean, we wasn't so wrong. It's still PWM, just at a very slow frequency lol.
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@@YourMJK but with feedback
"Ok let me do a simple demonstration using my stove."
Dismantles it entirely in the process
got to love that determination
But foreal im glad i know if my stove ever just stays on it could be that relay. 👌👌👌
So, my thoughts as an Electrical Engineer from Brazil:
It's pretty rare to get a shock from the shower head directly even if installed incorrectly due to the fact that the tap water in droplets doesn't conduct a lot of water and the shower head is made out of plastic. In properly installed residences, it has its sole running circuit from its own breaker to the shower and uses 220V power (we have both 110V/127V and 220V over here) to dissipate less heat in the wires. It is way more common that due to not installing the ground wire or the resistance correctly that it contacts the pipe (in older houses made out of steel) and give you a shock on the handles when opening or closing the water. In that case, a quick fix that most Brazilians do is either use a rubber mat or a rubber flip-flop (which is ubiquitous over here). To conclude, here the houses are made from brick and mortar and it's way more resistant to electrical fires compared to places like the US or Canada, where the insulating materials can be a hazard for high powered electrical appliances. In my opinion, having a gas pipe installed only for the shower is more hazardous than the solution we've got here, since heat is rarely a problem in a tropical country like ours.
The "grounding 220VAC" thing sounds insane, but otherwise it sounds like you guys have it locked down on these things. i would agree that a gasline is usually more dangerous than a 220VAC connection, especially when run through a GFCI or while operating in a home with RCI. Atleast there are those omnipresent fail safes that pop automatically, and electricity doesn't linger and present a massive fire hazard.
@@toilet_cleaner_man the electric shower I have as a backup to the solar assisted boiler I have in my house is a the same brand as his but it is a much much larger and has a maximum load of 7800w lol so it is connected to a 220V and a 50A breaker with thicker gauge wiring.
mines shower is 300A 120V
I just ground my new shower head with an eight foot copper rod buried in the ground. Ah, the happiness of opening and closing without the slightest fear of those inconvenient shocks when our nail is excessively cut. In time, you totally summed up the situation.
And yes, I can bet that there are more accidents in the US and Canada due to gas leaks, or even the explosion of the water tank than we have fatal victims of shock from that shower.
I've lived in a building whose builder was from Canada, it was an old building but they used a gas heater in each apartment that heated a 100-liter tank, one day the manometer gave out, and if my father hadn't gone to check it (he had started making noises), probably an accident would have happened. It's like the engineer already said, for each place the more they use it, the more they become experts in that subject and mitigate the risks.
@@toilet_cleaner_manIn Brazil we use RCD, which is almost a GFCI, except that it goes together with the circuit breakers, if there is any current leakage it trips, in Portuguese this piece is called Disjuntor DR.
ElectroBOOM: "If this is installed correctly by a professional..."
Me: laughs in Brazillian
eu tava aqui pensando a mesma coisa kkkkkk
Kk eu que instalo essas coisa em casa, tô vivo ainda, acho
@@Mark_40_ instalo descalço e com o chuveiro ligado inclusive kkkkkkkk
@@toshiopb ai é A+ KKKKK
As vezes quando ligo o chuveiro pé descalço da choque kkk aí tenho q lembra de usar os chinelos pra n tomar choque kkkk
If he was a surgeon he would test surgeries on himself
Quantum slime!
gamer moment
"Why is he cutting his own appendix out?"
"It is practice"
A Soviet surgeon legit did that.
I agree
Ahmad Gamer i heard that lol!
“So I hate to say it but besides the *loose wires* and the fact that it *may set your house on fire* , it seems pretty safe”
*i agree with your logic*
Actually in Brazil most of the house's are made of bricks and concrete, and not wood like in the US and Canada. So is more difficult to it actually burn in a fire.
@@arthurizando the wires can still catch on fire though. It happened to me, but luckily where they caught on fire was where the wires connect to the meter outside the house.
@@jadonclegg8684 I know that, but here "most" of the people that have those showers have the proper wiring.
@@arthurizando does it draw 19 amps 😂😂
@@realcartoongirl yes
I just renovated the electric installation in my bathroom here in Brazil, and I had to run 6mm wires for the shower into a 32A circuit breaker. You definitely DO NOT plug these into a regular outlet.
Well, he is using a GFCI, so it helps a bit in that case, as the GFCI is made for water situations in Canada.
ElectroBOOM: Safety First.
ElectroBOOM: *nearly dies every episode*
Safety is his number two, his number one is fun.
His body is highly resistive so he won't die
Pandoran Bias exactly.
not every episode only 2 or 3
Thats ac
LMAO.
You are a gift to the world. You are educating us, but we don't feel like we're being educated, we feel entertained. That's a hell of a skill.
Heck yeah 👍 this guy is literally the only reason I took my transformer out of a old microwave oven for lichten burning! I Love this community.
Very good entertainer. Love watching the videos
Cody be careful with that transformer.I got badly burnt working with 6v ac.
@Ralsei with a gun that's dedication education and stupidity all rolled into 1 he is a genius
Yeah, true!
He really needs to teach high-school kids. I would have loved to listen to him rant in a classroom
Yea i would know everything
I would shit myself cuz I'd zone out for 5 seconds and then he'd touch a wire and a godamn boom would ring out, the lights would go out and then I'd have a heart attack
He’s funny and intelligent
He's bad in social things. He is best in video's
When I was in high school our electronics teacher showed a lot of his videos.
Let's also remember that water is a poor conductant. If it was salty water then it would be a whole diferent story. Here in Brazil we have the majority of showers eletrically heated and a minority heated by a buthane/methane mixture. It is common to read about asfixiation accidents related to gas heating, but in 53 year I've never heard of a deadly accident involving eletric showerheads. The wire gauge and breaker are highly regulated when you build a house.
I once heard about a fire involving electric showers, but I'm not sure if it was deadly
Yeah, it's mostly big apartments and fancy houses that have gas heating.
i have all three types. the main building in my house has central heating for water, the annex uses suicide showers, and i have an apartment in rio de janeiro that uses butane, which is by far the worst and most dangerous type. oh, i actually have a fourth type. at one of my farms there one which uses iron piping that goes through the fireplace's chimney and get heated that way. it also has a suicide shower on top of that but since it's the middle of nowhere it's exclusively powered by gas generators since power lines don't go there, so it doesn't get much use.
I could be wrong, so feel free to correct me, but I'm not aware of anything called buthane. Butane would be closest, but is typically only used in lighters and not for home heating. Usually, "natural gas" (at least that's what it's called where I'm from but I'm sure it varies country-to-country) is usually methane and ethane. Water is heated differently in different countries, and I don't know what the benefits and downsides are in each case. In terms of water heater tanks, the risk is always a steam explosion or Boiling Liquid Expanding Vapour Explosion (BLEVE). It doesn't matter what the heat source is, but they are absolutely devastating. In terms of that, it may be smarter to heat smaller amounts of liquid directly at the source; similar to these shower-heads or on-demand heaters rather than a huge vat of water that could, if enough safety systems fail, reach the boiling point. I'm not particularly for or against any of these systems, but thought I'd add my two cents; maybe someone will teach me more!
@@massdefect1 Butane in mixture with propane happens to be used for heating, though in my area (Poland) pure propane is more popular as there are problems with butane when it's stored in negative temperatures (it doesn't evaporate or something like that).
Natural gas is used when you have access to gas pipleine, but otherwise you install one of those huge white tanks in the backyard, which gets refilled with propane, or mixture of propane and butane. Maybe some countries (e.g. in warmer regions of the world) use pure butane.
Mixture of propane and butane is used in those small 11kg gas cylinders to which you can connect the kitchen stove (if it's gas powered and you have no access to gas pipeline, or to that huge backyard tank).
Lmfao love how you casually destroy your oven and fix it.
Something tells me, this wasn't the first time he broke it.
@@Sypaka Something tells me, this wasn't the first time he broke anything.
...and then have the time and patience left over to sweep behind it.
@@diamondev1 Obviously
Hmm
"if it goes into your eyes or mouth it could really hurt"
*"OKAY LETS TRY IT"*
The essence of this channel in 1 quote
Someones gotta do it
Everytime he teaches us something, his apartment power goes out
Everytime he teaches us something *my* apartment power goes out lol.
Its the opposite of the light bulb when you have a idea
I'm from Brazil. Here, most houses use an electric shower and accidents rarely happen. The showers reach 7,500 Watts and most of the time copper cable of 6 mm² is used.
As a Brazilian I can confirm his statement is true [but I don't remember if those values are correct], I'm 18 yo and I still am alive so...
I dont believe 7500 watts for a second.
@@scotts1668 i did the math, Watts are Volts * Amps so for 220V, its 220*19= 4180Watts, and for 150V (idk if the amps may change but) 150*19=2850Watts. If yours is 7000W that means you are dealing with 31Amps. (suposing a 220V AC) lol thats a pretty ineficient sh1t
@@javieraragongarcia8660 is there a message I'm not seeing?
@@scotts1668 It could be 7500W, he's 5000w so im not surprised if you find a little more powerful one, but i think it would burn the electric wires therefore. unless you have your instalation with 8mm^2 copper wire, wich is very expensive and useless for your bathroom. Just think a normal house needs 4.5KW and you are spending 5kW in a fking heater lol
People are usually shocked when they find out I'm a bad electrician.
Ah cha cha chaaah
G(old)
Har har har (cough,cough) 1980’s jokes age like fine cheese......
That's Punny
TIBA honest that was a funny joke and would be there till the end of tyme
I bet his last words are gonna be “let’s plug it in”
"Let's test it"
@@ReviewBlogVlog "Let's see what happens when I touch the live wire."
Or f***
“Let’s see what happens when I lick the nuclear power core”
@@erite_zx4499 "now let's see what happens when you touch 'the foot'"
I live in Brazil and never heard of someone being electrocuted in shower, even though most houses do not ground their showers. Always wanted to know how the hell it is possible. Great video!
24 years using this thing and never been grounded... Its fine...
Probally because of rubber slippers.
@@geovanneteixeira100 I don't think so, cause I take bath without any kind of electrical isolation from ground and yet feel nothing
@@danteregianifreitas6461 This is why shower head is not so dangerous like most people think, i never see someone being electrocuted by a shower head.
My grandmother was eletrocutd once, but she has survived. The place used to be 220v (Santos-SP) and not grounded. In all houses that I know the electrical shower is always grounded
We have two of these showerheads in our house. The first one was installed by an (unauthorized) electrician. It shocks me occasionally when I touch the faucet. I don’t like using it lmao. The second one was installed by my mom who is definitely not an authorized electrician either, but she still managed to make a better job with the second one. It does not shock me! Although the ground cable is definitely just hanging out in the air. It terrifies me still. Thanks mom!
When I see this unibrowed almost bald man with a handsome face on my notification I click
It is strange how attractive he is
No need of this kind suicide shower in my country on summer 🤣,you get more than you want .😅
@@orochimaru1253 The tank water on the roof gets very hot ?
ikr vsauce rocks
He’s not bald his hair is just migrating from his head to the rest of his body
6:38 this man has become so used to everything going wrong that he is fully confused when it worked right and didn’t explode.
You know when a video gonna be good when it's write "doom" in a electroboom video
I know it's gonna be good when it's a video on live wire water sources and he starts it by pressing his hand to a live stove
I surprise with lack of Englis in this coment
sadly there's only a little pain in the video
bruh dorifto
More like electrodoom :v
As a brazilian, providing you install it according to the specs, I can tell you it's super safe and more eco friendly than gas shower.
Also, pretty much every brazilian I know got a few electrical discharges from "suspicious" places, like when you go to some sketchy air BNB, or some hostel in the middle of nowhere, or some high poverty area.
I've got a few of those myself from the shower faucet, and it's not "terrible".
Not pleasant, but def not gonna kill you or anything.
PS: Also in those sketchy places we would shower using rubber sandals to prevent that lol.
In fact, more eco friendly here in Brazil. In many places, like England for example, energy comes from burning oil, charcoal, whatever.
@@JoseClMezzaliraParaguay uses 100% renewable energy from the Itaipú Hydroelectric Dam, shared with Brazil. 🇧🇷🇵🇾
Also, we share some electricity of the Yacyretá Hydroelectric Dam with Argentina. 🇦🇷
GAS SHOWER
8:26 that is my motto for my entire life. every day i wake up, i gag and say "bleagh. i feel nothing."
Same haha
Thought i was tha one babehh
9:32
Installed by a professional...Yes...Yes...
[laughs in brazilian]
@@KamuiPan I'm pretty sure he is suggesting that people usually perform the installation themselves instead of hiring a professional.
@@KamuiPan The electric outlet must be not below the shower pipe, but above it, otherwise you risk it to really be a suicide shower.
"Laughts in brazilian" eu ri kkkk
Laughs in brazilian 😅
profesionally electrocuted. Suicidal and stupid
8:24 *gurgle gurgle gurgle spit*
AH
I FEEL NOTHING
Milo Szecket Kwast right at that part when i read this 😂
I don't know why, but he reminded me of Gru when he said it.
Mooicorn ??
This showerhead is dangerous because you may drown to death trying to be electrocuted.
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Greetings, I'm Brazilian and really here in Brazil 90% of households use electric showers, and there are very few reports of accidents involving electric showers. Few residences use gas showers, in buildings and buildings it is more common to use showers with gas heating due to the number of residents, if they were electric showers the installations would not support such an electric current. Our electric showers range from 5,500W to 7,800W with very high currents. Our houses are prepared with their own installations and exclusive for this equipment, copper wires of up to 10mm² and circuit breakers of up to 50A are used to support it! Hugs!
*_>Few residences use gas showers._*
Are those U-boat descendants?
Here in Brasil (HUE-land) we use these showers everywhere with no problems because:
1- the power grid of our houses are made with this kind of shower in mind (50+ amps).
2- we don't use them this close to our body, it's a hot country and we install our showers higher, close to the ceiling, the power outlet usually come from the ceiling, far from most people's reach.
PS: our standard ceiling is 9~10 feet tall, again, hot country.
but faulty ground can make the water register(if made of metal, wich normally isn't) shock you
@@Shadownrun2 but this is really not a problem, just use flip flops in the shower. The whole country does this.
You misspelled "2.7~3 meters"
@@Shadownrun2 another huehuehue here. I think there's something more to it, many Brazilian homes (including mine) haven't got ground circuits and yet nobody gets electrocuted.
And chile aaaand Argentina aaand Colombia and some more (i think)
Mehdi: "So if this is installed absolutely correctly by a professional..."
We, brazilians: "Lemme look on youtube how to fix my shower without powering my house down..."
thiagots85 also we: how can I build a shower with a water gallon and an a “maybe not” isolated extension cord! HAHAHAHAH
SIM! hahahahahahaha
I installed the shower by myself and didn't bother to install the ground wire. In other hand, I always wear flip flops at shower, huehuehue.
@@KamuiPan 1.in eastern Europe, if you've got enough money, you can even buy your doctors degree.
A title means nothing, if it's holder can't do shit he's supposed to
2. Power outlets right next to shower pipes would be a total nightmare for ne as a learned electrician.
3. As he demonstrated, these things pull a shitload of current even when heating just a little. Normal house wiring is rated for 19.5A (breaker at 16) when installed inside walls or a max of 29A (breaker at 25) when placed inside a double ceiling or similar, where there is air around the cable, meaning it has a very good potential of setting your whole damn house on fire with burning cables if you're not careful enough.
To be clear, I'm talking about usual 2.5mm² wires, usually used for outlets. There are some applications (like in everyday European bathrooms WITHOUT a outlet or inside most campers/ trains/ buses where they only use 1.5mm² changing this to 16.5/16A to 21/20A
@Joshua M Generally speaking, most sinks don't have the option for hot water(maybe because here is so hot that it warms up by itself), however, the few that actually have it work pretty much the same way as the shower heads. This video is pretty nice, even though it's in portuguese: I'm sure sure you will at least be able to see how the user end works.
ua-cam.com/video/4P9W9hDZZgg/v-deo.html
Keysight: Amazing new, affordable product.
Circuit specialists: hold my multimeter
LOL get this guy to the top
@@MISFITMANIAC working on it
still using the hold my beer meme ?
This is so last month.
Omg thanks, first time getting so many likes!
This is what i imagine a genius mad scientist IRL is like
Other people: "Installed by a professional..."
Brazilians: Hold my beer.
Hahahahaha this is soo true, everyone install that things here.
Hold my mão de obra*
@@TleafarafaelT kkkkk
@@robsonbaldissera4396 Kkkk
Hold my brahma
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You Destroyed the Oven and Fixed Lmaaaaoooo
I really want that meter...I guess I'm broke AF...
EPIK
Fam.
why do you have lights wired to the same breaker as the socket outlets??????
This man's sponsorship spots are so smoothly done and relevant. This is true content creation that I can respect!
In Brazil we usually use the -240V- 220V (typo) version because of the lower wire diameter needed and most houses doesn't have any grounding.
Sounds like a fun seizure for the babys that like sticking forks in stuff
that's why we don't let them do it
@@ironicman6731 here in brazil this is the least of our concerns as a child hahahahahhhha
Hey, when I was two I did it, now I'm standing here, seventeen and all, with only minor brain damage!
No ground... We Just wire It to the neutral!!!! Bang.. welcome to Brasil
You mentioned brazilians, not knowing this summons us.
Behold the upcoming swarm.
May Tesla protect you.
Atleast he didn't say India, in that case they would totally overrun the comments
Isso ae. É nois que voa.
Poor ElectroBoom channel, we will ruin it by overrunning the comments with "ele falou do Brasil kkkk" and "quem está assistindo em 2019?"
@@stormsurge1 now even edison wont protect, you're gone my friend behold as we summon in billions
Wait, which Tesla? The one that electrocuted you or the one that overrun you?
Both are tend to kill you
8:23
"I feel nuffing!"
You and me both... you and me both...
You misspelled "boff". Twice.
DTX its spelled both
arazuhld44 r/wooosh
I didn't get the joke I need explanation
NG Otako r/ihavereddit
here in brazil people only die with gas heated showers. never heard anyone who have had fatal injuries with electrical shower
How tf people kill themselves with gas heated water?? Darwin award for sure. With a water heater tank heated by a gas pilot light, the water gets heated in a central location the distributed. Having a carbon monoxide detector is best for safety, but if properly maintained you shouldn't have a worry about CO. I'll take my chances with gas any day rather than an electrical circuit a foot from my head heating water. Much safer to have centrally heated water via electric too, with instead of a gas pilot light you have two (an upper and lower) resistors that heat the tank of water.
@@MisterPlanePilot90% of the Latin American continent is incompetent to have subways that don't crash into each other
@@OHHHHUSBANT the united states is too incompetent and corrupt to have above-ground railways that dont cause chemical disasters once a week.
@@MisterPlanePilot Unfortunately it happens sometimes here. I had a very young online friend who died due to a bad installation of a gas shower, it was very tragic.
But I do see generally a trend to be couples who die together this way, probably they were having sex, spent a long time in the shower and the instalation was bad as well so they eventually pass out together.
@@OHHHHUSBANT "Latin american continent" is actually insane. Go back to school immediately
_“hi, in my previous video about getting electrocuted in a bath tub”_
😂😂😆😆😂😂 the flag of Lolostan
I briefly mentioned suicide
Tittle: "How safe is the shower head of doom?"
Video: Mehdi playing with the oven for four minutes.
Four?
El_Nicovw321 yeah actually
6
Minutes
"1 minute on, 1 minute off, 1 minute on, 1 minute off" -> a.k.a. very low frequency PWM
aka mechanical thermostat.
Wax on, wax off... and if it's still not cooking the omelet, do a crane kick
Gianluca Ghettini well it deepens, it seems to me that it changes the frequency not the duty cycle like in PWM where there is a fixed frequency and changes the on and off duration (or it just has a thermostat)
Afaik, it wouldn't be a PWM because it's turning off and back on (i.e. 0hz->normal hz), right?
You'd be better off just making an timer based on the clock of the oven that ticks it on and off.
More like a sine wave controlled by an lfo
I've always been freaked out by the exposed wiring over the shower heads here in Brazil. It's just kinda creepy to have that in the shower. Also it was common to be shocked when turning the knobs
Specially if you have any kind of wound on your hands.
There are far better connectors than just insulating tape. And ways to hide it in the wall.
@@DinnerForkTongue yup, this problem is caused more by the "we finish it later" attitude that Brazilians have, everything is temporary, forever, not an inherent problem with the showers
@@devforfun5618
O negócio é que o ditado "não existe nada mais permanente do que uma solução provisória" é *_global._* Não é exclusividade de nós brazucas não.
@@DinnerForkTongue é, mas ironicamente na terra da liberade é mais facil voce levar uma multa por uma instalação que não segue as normas do que no Brasil
"it seems pretty safe"
Unless neutral wire breaks. A great gift for a "favorite" relative.
WELCOME TO BRAZZZZILLLLLLL
yep. neutral wire breaking or melting is a real risk. We do mitigate that most cases by providing adequate wiring.
Actually not, if overheating starts by the lack of neutral the element will just melt together with the plastic connections it's design to do it, the place will probably smell of burned plastic but that' it, I never have heard of any fire cause by a shower like this. Actually there's more deaths linked to fires or accidents in home boiler installations then with these eletric showers.
1:47
*Bold* of you to assume that i have brain cells.
It won't hurt us, we have no brain cells
Yes very *bold*
Same with me
I may not have a brain, gentlemen, but I have an idea.
"the voltage is not high enough to hurt you on skin but if it enters yours eyes or mouth it can be dangerous. Ok let's try it" LOL
Lmfao
It's called testing your hypothesis. He assumed it would be dangerous, and he tested it out.
It's science-y....
I have to give him credit that he actually tests out his hypothesis as opposed to just assuming it's unsafe without testing it.
@@joemann7971 well eye and tongue aremore conductive
I had to watch the video two times to catch all the jokes.
He just tested it, he knew full well it would be safe
Although it doesn't seem like it, these electric showers are very safe nowadays (I say nowadays, because in the past, in the first electric shower models, the piping was all metal, so the risk of getting shocked when turning on the valve was high, and the the shower was activated using a disconnector switch and the risk of you turning on the shower while wet was also very high) they are even safer than gas showers, here in Brazil it is very rare for accidents involving electric showers, when it does happen, it is usually because the person forgot to turn off the circuit breaker to change the resistance, or else, for some reason, probably incorrect installation, it caught fire, on the other hand, every year when winter arrives, cases of people who died of asphyxiation due to monoxide are very common. of carbon that leaked from the gas heater,
Im brazilian and i must say i was always scared to use the shower in my mom's house because i was afraid id get a shock from the faucet xd
Eu sempre tenho medo de usar chuveiro eletrico, ainda mais o meu que é grande mas muuito antigo.
Eu ainda NÃO SEI como eu não levei choque hehehehe
Tipo, os fios não tão expostos mas tem uns lugares q eu vejo q se eu meter a mão eu levo
@@zeKotako Eu ainda tenho medo, uma vez eu tava tomando banho e ele pegou FOGO!
I have seen you somewhere
Desculpa dizer, mas isso tá me cheirando a riquinho hahaha
Mas o chuveiro a gás esquenta melhor mesmo.
Says “ill pick a different title“
Used shower head of DOOOOOOOOOOM
Back in college, I helped a friend install one of these in his room. Neither of us have any knowledge regarding electrical engineering
And did he.... 9:57
This is the essence of Brazil. Install shower without any knowledge about. A lot of gambiarras LoL
@@LucasLima-nj2hx usually you just grab the cables and connect them and use it. There is not a lot of science behind xd
@@LucasLima-nj2hx
Not gambiarras, they're _technical adaptations,_ than you very much :P
@@JoseFerreira-nk5kq Yeah exept if the connection of the neutral conductor is loose and it's not grounded, or you touch a bad isolated phase (wet and only isolated with scotchtape), you gona die. Change the conductivity of the water (Drop salt or dirt in the tank on the roof) and it will kill you too. In fact there is a lot of science behind.
Can confirm... in Tanzania (240v) these tingle, even when installed by a professional who also dug up and replaced the earth spike.
Well I Installed and replace the resistance in a bunch of these back in Brazil. We do have thicker wires running for those, and there were some older models that the case was made of metal and would give you a little shock when installed improperly and touched. Even 110v house would usually have a second phase to run things like this in 220v, specially in the south where it gets really cold in the winter. Houses in Brazil are not made of paper like here so that helps with the not setting everything on fire as well.
A funny comeback is that other countries are the brave ones for running piped gas everywhere and within their house.
Either way I have never heard of anyone gettin hurt with these showers, and Brazilians alone probably take daily showers equivalent to the rest of the world together.
Speaking truths! Americans freak out when they see those shower heads but forget they have open flames sometimes on 20+ year old boilers in their basements and piped, pressurized gas running within their walls, and that added to the fact that homes here in the US are built out of wood. 😅 but those showers are the dangerous ones. Go figure!
@@guedesfhp both are dangerous, it's just a matter of time before one baboon messes with things they don't understand and KAPOOF, they're with Jesus. They're playing Russian roulette but with their House
@@guedesfhp Eh, people fear what they dont know about, so it is not a weird reaction, silly though, yes.
The "House in Brazil are not made of paper" made me giggle 😂
One problem when I see with this kind of video, is that even the most technical ones seems to ignore the fact that safety regulations do exist outside of north America. Like, there as a bunch of rules and regulations to make sure that the wiring of the house are done correctly, even if we have to admit that most people want to ignore that, but electricians have to follow the guidelines regardless.
I'll be -hopefully- a electrical engineer by the end of this year, and a lot of my dally activity is read those boring norms to not kill myself in the future. lol
@@Marcos_Tired Of course there's safety regulations outside of the US, but I do question how many people ignore those considering even in the US, I've seen some.. Not very legal wiring (Hell, I live in one of those houses right now loll).
Early congrats on becoming an Electrical Engineer btw! Electrical Engineering is the field I want to go into, but I'm only 18 and at the very VERY beginning of even learning what anything means haha! Hope life serves ya well, take it easy and have fun!
7:58 The spoon is offered by CircuitSpecialists
8:15
ElectroBOOM: “When the water comes to your eyes or your mouth, it can really hurt”
Also ElectroBOOM: *_lets try it out_*
Its like he _wants_ to die
Don't we all want to at some level though?
"I feel nothing!"
Why is your profile picture gacha
@@XxchildpredatorxX good question
If he had tried the suicide shower that Diode Gone Wild has tested he could have died. Indeed the one he tries here does not have a so bad quality.
6:00
oh right, this was about a showerhead not a stove
Here in Brazil about 90% of the houses do not have grounding and we connect the ground wire in the neutral.
edit: taporra tem BR pra caramba aqui kkkkk
My grounding connection was actually a nail in the wall in my first house lol
@@justsomenerd8925 f you, i know so much people are rich, and they are my friends
@@FPSzky rich in Brazil is still a peasant in a proper, first world, nation.
@@justsomenerd8925 my uncle is in dubai bitch
@@FPSzky cool story. Dubai is a shithole too. Also, just because he's in Dubai doesn't mean he is wealthy. Nice potato brain you have.
"Besides the fact that it may set your house on fire it is safe."
Thank you, sensei
sensei means a japanese karati teacher lol uur way off
@@kovanpulkinen8205 Sensei, is a japanese title, given to a teacher or an honoured individual, such as a doctor.
@@gjune36 Ok i was close enough and you probably searched it up atleast i didnt.
@@kovanpulkinen8205 I used to watch a lot of anime and used to like Japanese movies.
@@gjune36 simply writting "your right and i was wrong" hurts more than a 240V shock on the internet.
I love your videos they kept me sane whilst in hospital after a major operation always make me smile. Thank you from the UK
Using an electric shower requires some care that we learned as a child in Brazil. The shower should not be close to the head; the temperature selector switch must not be touched while it is on; taking a shower using rubber slippers is recommended in places where the electrical installation is precarious; and there must be a circuit breaker just for the shower. Electric shocks in the bathroom are common, but they are usually minor. I believe that the main risk of electric showers is the fires they can cause. We already had a shower that caught fire in my house, and it has also occurred to me that I was in the bathroom on a day of hydraulic instability and the shower element turned on by itself, causing a near fire that I managed to prevent by turning it off immediately (if I hadn't been there seeing it, it would have caught fire).
“Hi! In my previous video about getting electrocuted in a bathtub” is a sentence I thought I would never hear
Imagine you click on this video and skip to 8:24 with no context 😂😂
Even with context.....I was at once scared, intrigued, and dismayed.
@@michaelfingers7726 I was reading comments before watching video and I can agree im confused now
*Gets demonitized
LOL
Audio only is even better
I can imagine this guy's phone conversation with his wife:
"Honey, why is the fire squad at our home again?"
"Oh, I was trying to see if I could electrocute myself with a shower head. Turns out, no, it won't electrocute you, but it may set your house on fire."
"Uh-huh."
" Oh! And I got a new sponsor, too!"
And we may need a new spoon.
It's funny because these showers, especially from the Lorenzetti brand, are widely used throughout Latin America because of the low cost, I'm from Costa Rica and here at least 80% of showers are of that type. These showers are dangerous only because most people install them improperly without connecting the ground to save money on hiring an electrician. I myself have one well installed and the only problem is the durability of the heating elements, after 4 years it is common to replace them or the entire shower.
8:24 (waterboards self)
"I feel nothing."
*FBI wants to know your location*
More like CIA noises
Oi
@@varenik_buzovoy3694 oi
Oh lord the feds
HIDE THE WEED
@@ithaca2076 Looks like that one Spiderman meme.
3:55
" i mean for around 200V AC, *throws in an ad* i mean $200 dollars.."
this guy is the best.
At my home it's for 240 VAC Lolz
Usually when designing a house's eletrical circuits we have one that's physically isolated from the rest specifically for a shower, so that it can have it's own breaker and thicker wires.
Not a native speaker so I might have explained it poorly.
Basically we know one of the outlets in the bathroom will be the shower, so we design it accordingly.
eu acho que isso é mó estranho pra eles né, pra gente é simplesmente normal, tipo não tem outra forma
@@murilospineli2241 depende muito do clima também. Acho que o chuveiro elétrico é bem mais comum em países com climas mais quentes
explained it with perfect clarity 👍
@@arthurceci8152 não seria mais frios? pra esquentar a água?
@@LinuxIsNotAnOperatingSystem Chuveiro elétrico em locais muito frios não adianta. Onde eu moro aqui no Brasil, nos dias mais frios faz próximo de 0°C e o chuveiro elétrico já não dá conta de esquentar bem a água, imagina em um lugar tipo Europa, Canadá onde é frio de verdade, abaixo de 0°C, lá tem que ser chuveiro aquecido gás, normalmente as casas deles tem grandes aquecedores centrais de água que funcionam a gás.
They are quite safe to run if you properly follow the code (which you didn't). In Brazil the way we set them up is by getting a split phase 220v dedicated circuit with very thick wiring just for the showerhead. You can't get shocked by the water and it is against code to wire it to a regular wall socket or without ground. You are supposed to use Wago connectors that can handle very high amperage and the shower head have to be set up very tall, cables should be unreachable and perfectly isolated inside the wall conduit (walls are supposed to be made out of concrete and not cardboard like in north america btw).
Walls are made of cardboard? I thought they were made out of unprocessed wood.
@@marbenswhich if you see Brazilian houses being built is essentially cardboard in comparison.
"$200 dollars" it's pretty affordable, not in Brazil, that is far more than our minimum wage
Milão num chuveiro, pqp
I'm pretty sure no country has a $200 minimum wage.
@@tylerbonser7686 many do.
Not talking hourly, but monthly
@@daeudu that would make a difference. Sorry when I here minimum wage I think hourly.
5:16
electro: both are dangerous
aslo electro: *turns it on*
Hey, im from brazil and we use this kind of shower a lot.
The biggest problem is not being eletrecuted by the water itself. The major problem is on the faucet.
When we touch it, we get shock.
True, but only if you dont have the ground properly instaled. Learn that from the beach house
Why not get a sentry gas boiler or something? Or maybe a 120l electro boiler, I made hot water with just a boiler and a woodstove
Ahh, the classic metal faucet. It remembers my grandmother's house; If we didn't use the flip flop, we get a BIG shock. Learned the worst way.. Haha.
@@ritzevespa i belive its a matter of cost and simplicity. No need for pipes for hot water, neither a stead supply of gas or wood. Just a simple pipe for water, a proper wire for the outlet. Its a elegant solution imho
Every time I shower at my father's house. Every single time. I now only turn the knobs with the hose.
I love that you acknowledged that your video might displace other good videos so you chose to give it a different title
"the knobb!! I've been calling it the volume all this time!! "
the kuh-nob
"not calling it that shit again...."
30%of this video: showerhead of doom
70%of this video: THE STUPID OVEN
@8:20 my dad opened the door..
".. and bring my tongue as close as possible, nghghghnghggh I feel nothing"
My dad closed the door
Hahaha!
Dad : “What were you watching”
Brain : “don’t tell him you are watching an electrician electrocute himself. Huh, what other videos are available on internet ?”
Me : “It was a pornography video”
Who says dad was outside when he closed the door? O.o
Lmao 😂
I think one of the funniest things about those shower heads is that yes, depending on how the bathroom wiring was done and if the shower power connection is not properly set you will get shocked. On our old home we had one of those and had an outlet in the same box for an ofuro (Japanese bathtub) electrical heater since my grandma didn’t trust those bathtubs with integrated heating. The idea was pretty much like the idea of American’s and UK bathrooms that have high output concenters do just the bathroom for stuff like heated toilet seats, shaver dedicated plug and shower and bathtub heating.
The shower manufacturer to buyer ...
May your soul rest in peace
What
I'm brazilian and I never heard about death in use of eletric showers.
In Brazil is more common to see news about deaths in bathrooms that use gas heated showers (because of gas leak)
Poor installation or failing units will make anything dangerous, however, does the gas there not have an added odor? In the U.S. if there's a gas leak you can smell it.
@@rockbandandghmaster You can't smell it when you're dead.
TheKingHostile In China, it is required to install a gas detector which connects to an electrical valve. Once gas detector detects gas the system will automatically switch off. The main system has a pressure valve as well. Also with the odour I just don’t see how anyone can die from gas...
Maybe he mean carbon monoxide from the gas heater exhaust.
@@rockbandandghmaster it's a bit trickier than that. Of course gas has added odor in it. I'm from Argentina but i've been in Brasil. Because of the terrain, it is way too hard and expensive to get master natural gas pipes on the neighborhoods. They even have trucks selling compressed gas as if it was icecream. But it's mostly used for other stuff. They're quite strange people most of them doesn't even know what a bidet is hahahaha
Welcome to Electroboom, where we dissect the oven during a shower head video
Here in Brasil we usually connect it to the 220. These are amazing and much less dangerous than EXPLOSIVE GAS
Sources?
@@cessnacitation-x have you hear any news about people dying in the bath?
@@mtulio-t9z No, because I don't tune into Brazilian news.
@@mtulio-t9z Also if you think any news site is going to have a breaking news section because of an electric shock accident, you are very naive, there are worse things happening on the world.
@@cessnacitation-x do you know Google?
Brazilian here.
The wires are usually very well isolated, and there is usually a breaker installed specifically for the shower head. The design of the one you have is pretty much standard.
How much Voltage do you have in Brazil?
@@Sypaka 110 and 220
@@Sypaka 220v, some places 110v...
@@Sypaka 220V
@@Sypaka It depends on the region, Some cities are 120v @ 60Hz other 220v @ 60Hz
It's very normal to install one of these. I guess here in Brazil it is a knowledge passed through generations. And yes, there is a very thick wire in our houses to power the shower. I never heard about someone died by one of these.
Cool video! These showers are indeed pretty common here in Brazil, as they are cheap and require no further heating installation on the house. Since we have quite mild winters, there is no need for general heating. Most places I lived there was a 220V line for the electric shower (Brazil is a mess, we have cities that are 127V and cities that are 220V). But I have already seen some stupid houses with 127V wiring for the shower, which requires thicker wires (and which often are not). Not every house has ground wiring, as it is a relatively new requirement for civil construction, so a lot of people just leave the ground wire off. Two of those showers already exploded in my head (NOT AT ALL A GOOD SCENE TO BE EXPERIENCED), one it was of poor install of the electrician (wires were loose in the connection, they eventually heated up, melted and the phase connected to the neutral, short circuit ftw). The other time the shower was off for a long period, so the resistor was quite oxidated. When I turned it on it shorted and heated up, the shower became red. Oh well, every day taking a shower below these 32A beauties, the joy of living in Brazil :)
Stupid question- why does lower volt wiring require thicker wiring and not higher voltage stuff?
In order to keep the power draw the same, if you double the voltage, the current gets divided by a factor of two. Wire is rated by how much current it can handle, so doubling the voltage is an easy way to avoid thicker wires. (I’m not an expert on the matter, so my explanation may be a little off)
Where I work the shower installation used extremely thin wire for a 127v connection, you know the kind that you'd plug lightbulbs with. It's caused the wires to melt on the shower AND the wall. No freaking clue how that got approved. Now we've put in a request for re-wiring the damn thing, and once it's done we'll be good in tha hood.
Don't you have natural gas in houses? A small water heater - either with natural gas or electricity - on the wall of your bathroom can solve the problem, costing $100 - 200. We used to have them in Iran 15 years ago (when we moved to an apartment with hot water, but I think they are still popular)
@@saeedgnu
Nope. Gas heating for Brazilian homes is *_WAY_* overkill unless you live in the southern mountains. Ours is a warm country, cold days are few and far between. So much so that our "cold" is less than 20°C.
I love how in order to cross the 10 minute mark he goes off on random tangents when something unexpected happens, like him getting confused from the oven, but unlike other channels it's 1) really fucking funny to watch and 2) still kind of educational and related to the main topic in a way
Its been waaaaay to long since I’ve come across such an interesting and thoughtful UA-camr, he not only keeps his content factual correct but also interesting and he cares about the smaller UA-camrs in the community. A breath of fresh air that this god forsaken site so desperately needs.
I agree
Well, there are soo many great channels here?
Of cause even more rubbish, but really, there are many great creators, ElectroBoom is one of them.
0:56 "Since you can buy these in Canada, you would assume that it's tested and safe."
Only if it's approved by CSA, cUL(us) or cETLus. Almost certainly the unit you bought has no government oversight and is being sold illegally. For some reason Amazon seems to get a free pass for selling unlicensed products.
Probably because 80% of the internet runs on Amazon owned servers. You don't piss off Amazon. They are effectively Megacorp 1.
"KUH-NOB" 🤣
Love your videos!!
R E T kah-nigets!
Make sure to pronounce knife as "KUH-NIFE" too.
Brazilian houses are made using powerful Wires in the bathroom to ensure that the electric shower does not have a problem with the wires not holding.Last month I installed my first shower and it didn't cause any problems and I don't know anything about wiring, and my house doesn't have a ground wire.
The only reason i gather courage to see his video because only if he is alive he uploads, so it should end well. anyways hats off man.
he has a family
they could upload it, too XD
@@goddamnmaddog2024 why would you upload a video where your family member dies?
Depends on the family member.. XD
His daughter is called 'electrocute'. Perhaps she will electrocute him AND upload for clicks..
The only reason I gather courage to see his video is because I know he is really a smart man that wouldn't do anything that will seriously hurt himself. He knows a lot about this to make it look more dangerous than it actually is.
With that said, I would hate to know he got his calculations wrong and done himself right in. But I doubt anyone would upload that video if it did happen. A "bad news" update from someone maybe? But not the actual video, UA-cam will demonitise and remove it straight away.
I'm Brazilian and though that all showers around the world worked like the Brazilians...
I was shocked my whole life and it was just a common day
No, here in Greece we heat the water with solar power and boilers.
most places in the world especially first world countries use water heaters to heat up the water, but knowing gas powered shower heads exist, the electric powered ones sound better
Vc tá de BRINCADEIRA, no Brasil também é SUPER comum chuveiro a gás, inclusive é mil vezes melhor.
@@Zhanzibar isso e verdade
@@Gekiko7167 In Brazil we do it too, solar is still uncommon but is used mostly on houses. Apartments use boilers frequently, and quite more people dies from boilers than eletric showerhead.
how safe is the SHOWER HEAD OF DOOM?!
its "eh"
COME TO BRAZIL
i gues that any latinamerican country is enough, they are pretty popular in Ecuador too
or mexico
or any shitty third world country
GAURON123: found the alt-rightist
@@randomaccount8009 Are you praising third world countries? I don't think constant famine, drought, and war is a good thing.
@@GAURON123 or usa
Brazilians have love and pride about electric showers. They are the main manufacturers of these devices, or at least that's how it seems in Mexican stores.
In order to use one of these devices, you must have an independent power line, direct to the electrical box in your home. That line should use cables capable of supporting the maximum amperage of the shower. That line needs its own thermomagnetic switch and, preferably, an independent ground line. Please, an electrician is definitely required.
Here in Brazil this kind of shower is very common.
Nice video!
OK for people living in poverty
@@girlsdrinkfeck Rich people in Brazil use them too
@@MarcoMugnatto then they r stupid
@@girlsdrinkfeck yeah dude it's standard in even the highest quality apartments. I've literally never seen a heated water shower that isn't heated by one of those suicide showerheads
@@jonathan4028 glad i dont live there, if i did id rip the shower out for a british electric one
Good on you for again promoting Bigclivedotcom's video. I agree, he covered the topic very well. (I'll have to look into diodegonewild, sounds interesting) gestures like this are why I am happy to support you on Patreon. Keep up the great work!
lol Bigspazdotlame channel has nothing on electroboom. B Clive disrespects viewers and involves them in arguments they have no idea he is referring to. I commented on one of his videos years ago and received a bunch of backlash that had nothing to do with my comment and was all about him talking about how smart he was 😂 I will never watch a Big Clive video again
@@916619jg by all means, I encourage you to produce better videos than he does!
Homes in Brazil have separate thicker wiring and higher amp breakers for the shower, if it trips due to heat or whatever, only the shower breaker goes down, only happens when theres something wrong in the installation like bad connections or thin wires. Usually each 110v wire goes into separate 25 amp breakers, and we use at least 5mm wires for the shower alone. Also, this varies based on the wattage used on the model, they vary from 4500w to 7500w for 220v and only up to 5500w for 110v. In Brazil some coastal cities do use 220v/phase while others use 110v+110v for the shower. Also, the wires are connected to a wall socket behind and above it, the connection usually blocked by a plastic cover.
Showers like these are the standard here, noone ever gets electrecuted unless they did a horrible installation. Also, there are tons of different models.
Brazilian homes usually also have separate wiring and breakers for different rooms like the kitchen.
@Popcorn Vendor 3rd world countries have electric enginners, you know?
@Popcorn Vendor Brazil is a vast country with very different places, some of which if were separate, they wouldnt even be considered "third world." There are rich developed cities with very low crime rates, but with such a bigcountry and with places that are indeed violent and dealing with misery, the average ends up being really bad.
You can travel within Brazil and feel as if you are in a whole different country.
@Popcorn Vendor well electricians are fairly common here (Argentina, literally next to Brazil) and they'l install anything you want for money.
Of course some people do it themselves and end with a house on fire but that's the dumb people anyways.
Also this shower head is Brazil only since i never seen one here.
@Popcorn Vendor Like ive said, averages, in a country the size of some continents.
@Popcorn Vendor You know people in 3rd world countries are not stupid as in some 1st world countries (for example only in 1st world country people are stupid enough to not know that plastic surprise in kinder eggs is not eatable so they need to ban them).
By the way you are right that Brazil is 3rd world country but reasons you stated are have nothing to do with it. Strictly speaking "Third World" is a political, rather than an economic, grouping it define non-aligned and neutral countries (countries aligned with NATO are the First World, the Communist Bloc the Second World).
Imagine surviving the streets of brazil and you die from taking a shower
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So I'm from one of these countries that use a shower like that. Here's some insights:
6:10 - There is no live wire with you in the shower here because the bathroom is already adapted to such showers - just to show how ubiquitous those showers are. Shower heads are installed much higher than Mehdi's (I needed a ladder to install my shower) and there's no loose wires whatsoever, they all go through the wall.
7:39 - Yeah, those things draw a lot of current. Long hot baths could mean a significant raise in your electrical bill. Pretty much everyone here had a parent that got really mad for their kids taking too much time in the shower for that very reason.
7:41 - Yup, but bathrooms' wiring around here are all adapted to this kind of shower. Mehdi's isn't, but in Canada this kind of shower head isn't common there.
9:03 - Actually, installing shower heads like these is something electricians around here do a lot. Also, shower manuals are many times good enough that a person can do the installation themselves (I do it).
9:06 - The only recurring problem people actually have with their shower is improper grounding, but that affects the whole house, not just the shower. I once suffered a mild shock while turning the metal cross handle in the shower of a friend's house. I then noticed that she had already covered the handle with electrical tape, but she missed some spots. So even in those cases, those showers are pretty safe.
9:34 - Why is Mehdi questioning the quality of the shower head? Those things have been around for ages, their design has been optimized over the years, their manufacture is regulated (believe it or not, the government can still do a few things right), houses are all adapted to them and the companies that make them really don't wanna be sued over someone's death. The only problem I find in some showers is low water pressure, but I've never had problems with the heating element.
9:45 - Well, where I live we have 110V AC but I've been to a town in my country that not only uses 220V but also metal pipes, their tap water has a metallic taste so I figure it has some metallic ions on it making it more conductive (I guess, I'm no chemist). I've visited that town many times and took hot showers there, and I felt nothing. No even a slight shock. Maybe the current is double or more, Idk, but it's still safe.
Electrical showers may be intimidating to someone who's not used to them and it can actually be dangerous if you install if you leave loose hanging wires in the shower stall like Mehdi did, but other than that, it's pretty safe.
as if in brazil the electricty was really done correctly....
In Mexico we use 120V AC and the Wiring usually is able to handle the current. In my house we had one for two years
I use one of those in my house, they are pretty safe I must say, they last for a long time too! I am from Costa Rica, Central America.
@Lepus Arcticusit's less expensive and it works just fine, it also doesn't need a lot of space to install.
@EffectsAE It's pretty safe honestly, like, 200 million brasilian ppl use and I can't remember the last time somone got hurt on one of these
@Benjamin gammer You know that you're quite uninformed, racist and mostly dumb right?
@Lepus Arcticus I suppose people in Latin America aren't fond of dying of carbon monoxide poisoning.
@@pedrodarosamello64 Yep, I don't want to sound like a butthurt brazilian but many people are ignorant in relation to electric showers, if you look at the statistics there much more deaths associated with explosions and fires caused by boilers and gas heating installations than with these type of cheap electric showers.
Loveeeeeeed your video. Brazilian and I used to have my house on 110V, so my Shower Head of Doom ran on ~50A. Usually in Brazil, the electric project of the house is designed to support that high amperage. But besides that, I have never heard anything about any of those catching fire, the worst case that might happen with those is poor insulation so you might get a slight discharge on the water valves. Nothing that a towel doesn't solve (Brazilian kids learn about insulation instinctively)