GZU electric heating faucet unboxing, installation & impressions - a cheap way to get hot water?
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- Опубліковано 10 вер 2024
- It has now been a couple of days since we installed this GZU electric tankless water heater faucet: amzn.to/2zLzKT0
No issues other than mentioned in the video have come up so far although it would have been wiser to get the version with a additional shower head for the kitchen sink.
When we moved into our new home we noticed that the old heater in the kitchen was for one broken and also did not really fit with our old kitchen anyway - since we were on a tight budget and schedule we installed the kitchen without warm water in mind.
Since my wife had been constantly pestering me about getting warm water into the kitchen but our budget remains tight we now came up with installing this faucet - it's a bit crude but does the job - also we just happen to have the electric connection right at the spot (which also comes from the fact our kitchen was initially fitted for our old apartment).
It's certainly a interesting variant for getting some warm water in spots where expensive pipe installations would be needed to get warm water.
Also my wife directly started cleaning dishes by hand instead of saving water and energy by using the dishwasher so that might be a point to be taken into consideration.
I bought one with a shower and it works fabulously!!!!
What the model name ?
I'm a plumber and appriciate the review, I could definatly hear the "thin cheap" tap. The slow heating would be an issue if used for showering or laundry. Good for short term solution but not permanent at all.
I think it would be an OK solution for a place like a garden shed if you have both light and water available.
I absolutely need to make a Suicide-shower video next time I'm in Brazil! 😅
It is all plastic, made in china ..
Australia all family houses powered 10A and maximum 2400W.
I bought one $20....if I can get it hooked up correctly it be great!looks pretty simple, just faucet change n plug it in....they also sell tanks u can put under sink or hang in walk if u demand a lot of hot water..
I had installed 3 such electric taps/showers at home. But after 1-2 years they all started leaking water into the electronic compartment, creating a very slight short-circut. I won't trigger the home safety switch to turno off, nor create any sparks, but if you touch the the tap - you can feel a slight tingling. And also water drips out of this compartment on the floor. There is a small rubber button that connects the water pipe with the electronic compartment and is supposed to push an electric switch and seal the hole at the same time. But it looks like after 1-2 years this rubber becomes less elastic and doesn't do the sealing properly.
Yea that's certainly a good sign to exchange the device. My wife bought a much more expensive German variant of this tab style with more metal parts let's see if it holds longer.
Mein Gott, das ist wunderbar!
You helped me with the braided connector pipes thank you so much for this video.... how long is the guarantee though
I think that usually should depend on your location legally speaking.
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Una consulta el agua me sale muy muy caliente como puedo hacer para regular el agua a mas fria
What is the inch of the faucet nozzle if you take it off. I hope it's the right word that I use. I want to put a adapter.
Was looking for something like this!!! Thanks
Glad I could help!
How many watt is the heater?
I bought one 4800W but it can not used in my house because the power consumption is too big.
How to adjust the temperature? The knob only adjust water flow
if you let less water through it will be warmer - more water colder.
Thanks a lot
Happy to help
thinking about buying this as since our heater died on the 23th. repairman supposedly comes tomorrow, but i dont know. Could this be mounted to a bath sink?
The hole is for the wire. There should be a tab that fits in it to close the hole that came with the product.
Yea for what it is is clear but a plug wasn't included in our package - on the other hand I doubt consistency with those packages.
The water pressure is very low when the water gets heat. Please help 🤷♂️
I have the same problem
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just bought one of these but it is is replacing an hot and cold mixer tap with 2 pipes not sure how to block the hot tap will end up causing a flood lol.
How it been?
Just got the same one. But local plumbing store does not have right threaded fitting pipe! What is the correct pipe/threading fitting to this? The manual does not explain anything.
In our case it was just the one we already had in house I'm just not very good with plumbing sizes (seems one of the only few things Europe hasn't gone metric on)
If you measure the size of the connector that should give you the right size.
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Thanks 👋🏻
Tanks
No problem
I really wonder what they look like inside! Is there current going through the water to heat it up? Because that could be very dangerous if it goes wrong... But also if it did, I feel like it would constantly trip the RCD, right?
Really wonder how it works!
It probably works like every other electric flow-type heater - since you only have one faucet and that straw-size tube in there it can do it in that compact size.
If it ever breaks down I'll do a autopsy. 😉
Btw if the water would touch the electricity that should trip the circuit breaker right away so we can be quite safe from that. (also the plastic handle should give some additional safety if the breaker would be a bit slow.)
@@kunicross that's great. I also think they use a thicker heating element, unlike for example suicide showers that short out the water and try to take the current out with the ground wire (which would make every European electrical installation trip immediately)...
We do have 30 mA RCD's these days, so I think it should be fine as well... Do you know how much power it draws? And how has it been holding up for after a year? :)
I am very interested in building a little recreational space in the yard and using one of these, since a small boiler would be a waste of electricity. I would connect it to a switch because you never know the heating element doesn't turn off completely (and if there's no water flow, it'll melt), but obviously if the current's too high, no switch will be compatible with it. 🤔
Thanks for the video and reply! I really wish there was a good teardown video of this particular brand!
Since my wife is from Brazil I was almost about to mention those showers, usually they should be save as well if they happe to be installed well and the house has working circuit breakers and correct wires and... Yea better shower cold and avoid touching any metal in the shower. 🤣🤣
As far as I can tell it only turns on with water flow but you could of course just pull the plug if it's infrequently used.
Referring to the Amazon description it should pull 3000 W. Actually the absolutely same design is sold under a variety of names I'm not sure if there any quality differences.
I think for our use in the kitchen we should have gotten the version with a shower handle other than that it takes a moment for the water to get warm and you get relativity little water out of it absolutely enough for hand washing but in the kitchen a bit more would be nice.
So far it does work without problems, I guess with hard use it would wear down fast but for us it's OK.
@@kunicross I don't hate those 'suicide showers' at all, I'd place them high enough and forget about it... Water is not that conductive + it turns into droplets. But I saw a video on UA-cam from a Czech guy who tried it and it wouldn't work because the loss was about 200 mA, so an RCD would never allow it to work... but situations where you just disconnect the earth are, well... sketchy. These manufacturers seem to make bath faucets as well and I noticed there's a lot of different kinds of nice faucets on amazon.de!
Would you say, if the pressure is not too high, you could fill the sink with nice warm water to wash dishes, for example? Or would it still be too cold?
Thank you for all of your time and advice this far! Very interesting!
does it still work ?
Yea still working
kunicross tech&review Danke
What to do if mine is too hot ?
With this design? Up the water flow should make it colder but usually it's not easy to get too hot with such a faucet
Hi! Thank you for that helpful video. What is the status of that faucet after one year? An update would be appreciated.
2 years.
It´s still working 👍
@@kunicross does it still work good because I am thinking of getting one myself so I'm asking your opinion does it still work after all this time if so please call me back thank you have a good day
Can’t believe you have an electric plug hole above you sink that would never happen in England electric and water don’t mix and that tap is cheap shit
The British fear of combining electricity and water is almost legendary - I would say that´s mostly a byproduct of being an early adopter. (also I really need to make a brazilian sucide shower video one day... ) (but the British plugs and switches on the plug holes are very good ideas 👍 I guess circuit breakers in the plug holes as well) Going back to the early adopters - I guess many brave British Nobels sacrificed their lives to get to that mindset overall - early electricity with unshielded wires and no breakers is really scary stuff. :D
"Also my wife directly started cleaning dishes by hand instead of saving water and energy by using the dishwasher "
This seems a tad contradictory. You save water and energy if you do it by hand. (if you do it right, and don't just leave the water running at maximum output, that's why those sinks exist with neat little plugs)
It might feels that way but usually you can't beat the dishwasher. (unless its a really old model and of course it has to be filled correctly. If you put in one spoon and launch it you can do it better )
The downside is that the dishwasher releases more chemicals but you can help a bit with that by using powder instead of multi tabs.
speak clearly, friend. You're hardly to understand.
Thanks for the feedback, I'll try to do better!
Not available take the vid down.
It’s on Amazon for $42
I have one but I can't control the water temperature,,its either hot or cold, I can't mix the waters to a constable temperature,,its that normal or something is wrong with it?
Usually with such devices the temperature is linked to the amount of water coming through, it's the opposite of a boiler system where you need to open wider to get hot water faster you actually need to open it just a little bit to get warmer water.
Also it usually takes some time to arrive at a stable temperature and even there some minor changes are possible but not so much that you should burn yourself.
Overall it mostly takes a bit of patience and experience with such systems to get the optimal temperature. (once you know in which position the water temperature is around the desired temperature just move the leaver there and wait some time, if to hot you need to open up and if to cold close a bit.
@@kunicross thanks, let me see if I understand,,normally when you use a faucet, you play a bit with it to get water neither hot or cold, just fine,,,but this water heater doesn't work like that for me,,if I switch to the left,,makes a little clicking sound, if I switch to the right, the something happens,,,left hot, right cold,,I can't just control the temperature,,its either hot or cold,,,can you elaborate a bit more, thanks
Can't quite say about the direction but just after the click in the warm direction should be the warmest the more you go from there the folder it should get.
And always when you change the temperature it will take some time till it arrives there - if you're on a 220 Volt net 30-60 seconds 110V probably much longer (that could be the issue)