Posted on 02/02/2024 5:54:25 AM PST by Paul R.
I’ve seen that (and a slightly clogged aerator can definitely whack the flow!), but in this case, from my original post: “Taking the aerator off doesn’t change the flow rate much.”
So, I suspect EPA made the mfgrs. limit flow elsewhere, as removing an aerator is very easy.
No disagreement there!
Well, no problem with our shower (which has a shower head about 18 years old).
‘Dat funny!
Yeah, I’m thinking a lot of the restriction may be in the tubes that run over from the hot and cold controls to the faucet stem and diverter... Frictional and perhaps turbulence effects at the “corners”.
No swelling visible (phone or batteries). I’ve seen that elsewhere, however! I chuck lithiums at the 1st sign of anything like that.
I think you are talking about the aerator? The diverter in my faucet is in the stem / base, says the drawing / parts list. No screen, just a device that kicks water away from the faucet when the spray hose is used.
Replacement battery will only charge to 41% in 10 hours. It did just now go up to 41% from the 40% it was at, but I don’t know how long that 1% took, exactly. I’m thinking this replacement battery was defective from the start.
That’s serious business right there.
And I’ve designed and stamped some reasonably serious plumbing work, including some commercial kitchens.
Holey Cr...!
I’d be happy with 4 - 5 GPM (at 45 psi).
Not that I wouldn’t mind being able to afford something like that...
They do seem to be a little overkill.
Here is a Moen 4gpm
https://www.amazon.com/Moen-Chrome-Pulldown-Laundry-4736/dp/B0C29BCXS2
#6 Amazon won’t ship aerators to California that exceed 1.8 gallons per minute.
I either remove the restrictor or use a nail to make the holes bigger.
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In 2015, the California Energy Commission adopted new kitchen and lavatory faucet standards, setting the maximum flow rate for kitchen faucets and aerators at 1.8 gallons per minute (gpm) with optional temporary flow of 2.2 gpm at 60 pounds per square inch (psi). California also set the maximum flow rate for private lavatory faucets at 1.2 gpm and the maximum flow rate for public lavatory faucets at 0.5 gpm. The standards went into effect in January 2016.
https://appliance-standards.org/product/faucets
#6 I am in California. This is what I see when I go to the link you posted.
This item cannot be shipped to your selected delivery location. Please choose a different delivery location.
Just damn.
You know, I wasn’t inclined to carry on his conversation, you seemed to be coming in with a tone that seemed hotter than conversational, as it seemed in the thread.
Then I realized after reading some of your other posts, it is apparent you are either a plumber or in the business, and were viewing it from a professional perspective, which explained to me why I had the perception you came in hotter than the thread required, that there was something more than the conversational banter on this thread.
I didn’t see that it was possible you were speaking from a professional experience (I presume) which makes you more critical of a plumbing professional who wouldn’t have gone out of his way to illustrate this thing to a customer as you might well have in a display of good customer service, and you regarded the attitude of that plumber with some disdain.
I understand that, if I read it correctly.
In reality, I noticed this some days after the installation that the water was cooler. I suppose when I called the office to discuss it, they simply were putting me off because they didn’t want to send someone back out. I endured it for a while, until I drilled down online to see how to take the flow controller apart, because I figured there was a set screw of some kind to adjust.
I tried a few times, but didn’t realize I had to pop off a chrome cap on the very tip of the handle to reach the Allen screw to begin disassembly. In that discovery, I saw how to adjust the temperature, so I learned how that way.
But it wasn’t evident how to begin the disassembly.
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