Geyser safe to use without earthing
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After Racold... I would just about settle for Crompton and Greaves
for boilers/ geysers of residential use.
I would stay clear of fake brands, trading brands.
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Brands like Spherehot, Racold have decades of local R&D, experience and focus on tackling typical nuances of desi market (power situation, hard water, user misuse).
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Trading brands are simply getting stuff contract manufactured from the most competitive vendor.
Sometimes these alleged brands do not even have a team which fully understands their own products.
flipkart has its own brand
Kindly check the query again.
I remember one such instance from a stay in an apartment. We used to get slight tingling sensation during bath when tried to operate the shower knob.
First and foremost, figured out that earthing is improper for the whole building. And this sensation pops up randomly, with that ensured that the geyser is working well ( not leaking out any). Finally figured out the sensation pops up when some neighbour operates his/her geyser. The other geyser apparently is generous in giving back some current.
After all this, earthing is ensured to the possible extent, and the issue still persisted. Probably, the earthing is not proper.
Finally I decided not to use geyser while bathing. I turn on before time,.turn off, and even plug out to be safe during bathing.
Eventually I moved from electric to gas based geyser
But isn't that an even more dangerous and a separate risk?
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There is unlikely to be a direct electrical connection between your and their line..
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... wasn't this likely a leakage issue with the water supply pipes themselves?
(As in, electrical leakage via the moisture in walls, pipes, ducts).
If the ELCB, MCB are of proper make.. they might help by tripping.
But overall.. no way is it safe of have such appliances in wet areas.. with no proper earthing.