Economy Model (Retrofit)

$230.00

The Economy Model Shower Timer is suitable for homes, hotel/motels, on site cabins at camping parks. Provides shower control for teenagers, overseas students, inconsiderate guests, rain water conservation.

What's Included In Your Purchase

Economy Model Shower Timer
Solenoid Valve
12V DC Power Pack
Printed Instructions

Installation

Connect the Economy model using the 12 V power pack (supplied) to a 240 V power outlet, which needs to be located outside the bathroom. This power outlet can sometimes be found in the roof cavity, servicing the ceiling fan.

Refer here for Economy Model Shower Timer Installation, Programming and Trouble Shooting instructions.

The shower head is not supplied. Your existing shower head can often be re-used. Or, to save even more money, replace your current shower head with a Water Saving shower head.

How It Works

Once in the shower, push the ‘Start’ button and turn on the water. The hot and cold water taps still control the temperature and water flow, as per usual.

The LED visual display will then begin counting down your remaining available showering time in minutes. An audible ‘beep’ will occur at the completion of every minute.

At the 99 second point, the display will switch to indicating remaining time in seconds. To support this, audible ‘beeps’ will occur at 30, 20,10, 5, 4,3, 2, 1 seconds.

The water is now automatically cut off and the now ‘flashing’ visual display will begin counting down remaining waiting time till the shower can be re-used.

Please note

Pressing the ‘Start’ button at any time during the available showering time or waiting time has no effect.

Programming

Pre-Program your available showering time choosing from 0 – 12 minutes.

Pre-Program your waiting time (between showers), choosing from 0, 15, 30, 60, 120, 300 second options.

The available showering time displays as a steady glow and the waiting time displays in a flashing format.

Power failure will not change these settings.

Refer here for Economy Model Shower Timer Installation, Programming and Trouble Shooting instructions.

Trouble Shooting

Screen blank

Check that 12 Volt power is reaching the circuit board. No display when power is connected suggests reversed polarity. Remove the plug from the socket on the circuit board, remove the back of that plug from the 2 pin socket on the end of the lead and reverse it. The centre of this plug should be positive with respect to the sleeve of the plug.

Cold water feeding back into hot system

If there is significant difference in pressure between hot and cold water, this can be a problem when the user leaves hot and cold taps turned on after the shower is finished.

That can cause back flow when there are multiple showers and the hot water is cooled by the cold coming from those open taps. One solution is to fit a one way valve in the hot feed to the shower.