Disclaimer: Lithium batteries present significant hazards. Use due caution when working with them!! And, I'm not recommending anything at this point (besides caution!)
As for the faucets:
That "Lifetime Warranty" Delta faucet developed a leak right through the side of the stem, a few inches up! In just under 10 years. Definitely underwhelming. IIRC it was about $70, new. So, not pricey, but not a no-name cheapy. Std. "chrome" finish.
With a lot of work I could probably cobble in a cold only 2nd faucet. Some of those still have much higher flow rates. Easier but would look pretty darn crude would be, essentially, a "garden hose" sort of feed for fast cold water. We really don't need high flow hot water, I think.
Note: I’m in an area that does not have water table level problems, other than it being too high about half the year!
It's like the dishwasher thing...Governemtn wants you to use less water...'cept they don't figure in that almost all of us wash off our dishes before they go in the dish washer. The thought of putting dishes laced with sauce, oil, debris in the dishwasher is disgusting. We use the dishwasher to sterilize the dishes....and nothing else.
I buy the cheapy shower head and then pull the rubber restrictor out with needle nose pliers. Best shower stream in my opinion.
Haven’t bought a faucet for a couple years, so my comment may be off base. Try replacing the aerator. That’s how flow used to be controlled. Don’t know about newer faucets. They may control flow with some mechanism inside faucet.
Typically the flow restriction is at the aerator. Unscrew the aerator from the end of the spout, replace with a higher-flow aerator. I’ve done it to the two kitchen sink faucets I can see across the room from where I’m sitting.
I initially did a 4.75 GPM, but actually went back and bought a 2.2 for the main sink, still have a 4.75 in the prep sink for when I really want to fill something fast.
https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B07C1SGPTR
Make sure yours uses standard aerators.
Whoops sorry. Didn’t see that you tested the aerator. My bad.
Until you try those batteries in a new phone, you probably won’t know why they aren’t working. The two most reasonable explanations for your phone issues are, (1) phone is malfunctioning or (2) both batteries are going bad, including the new one.
I’ve had spotty luck with $11 replacement batteries for my iPhone. I’m still using my iPhones 6 and 7.
Back when flow restrictors were first available, it was a simple thing to remove them and drill the hole bigger. I haven’t had to worry about it in a while but I figured the companies were probably forced to make them tamper proof.
When it comes to shower heads, they seem to have figured out a way to take lower flow and pressurize it.
I do about 150 hotel nights a year for my job so I’ve been in lots of different showers. Some are just awful but others, (including a brand called Speakman) have great flow and pressure. I’d think hotels would be all about saving cost and reducing water usage is a big one.
Moen was a great faucet until Home Depot, they lasted decades plumbers have gone from repairing or replacing 25 and 35-year-old faucets to dealing with throwaway brands and models.
In the early 1990s as Home Depot and homeowners doing repairs became a thing, Moen published full-page ads in the plumbing trade magazines apologizing to the industry for the fact that they had to introduce lower-quality lines at the insistence of Home Depot or the store would not carry its brand.
My issue with water was, in my state, not the pressure, but the temperature.
At some point we had our bathroom upgraded, and when I began using it, I couldn’t get the water hot enough. I am one of those people who, if my skin doesn’t approach the color of a cooked lobster, the water isn’t hot enough.
Apparently to be up to code in my nanny-state, there has to be a mixing valve that automatically mixes cold water in to reduce the temperature. I didn’t know this, and even tried turning up the temperature of our hot water tank to compensate...it didn’t help because the mixing valve would negate it.
The only result was that the hot water at the kitchen sink would nearly scald you.
In the shower, temperature-wise, it was a little warmer than simply being spat upon.
I suffered for a couple of years, then found out that I could subvert the mixing valve by disassembling the controller and repositioning some simple plastic part and...voila! Steaming hot water.
When my wife and I go anywhere to stay, the first question the morning after we arrive is: “What is your shower assessment?”
I judge on three things: Temperature, Pressure, and Volume.
Is it hot enough, is it powerful enough, and does it last long enough. If any one of them is wanting, the grade goes down.
This is a holdover from my old Navy days, where I vowed, when I get out of the Navy, I am never, ever taking a Navy Shower again. (They had people who, if you stayed in the shower more than a minute, would pound on the side of the shower stall.
Now, I can take a twenty minute shower, and am happy to pay the money to do it.
The situation: Over time my 18 batteries get out of sync with each other. They're on one electrical bus (circuit). So when my inverters/charge controllers send DC power to them to charge them during the day, all 18 batteries are getting charged equally. Likewise when my charge controllers pull power from the batteries. You'd think that at any time all of the batteries would be at the same SOC (strength of charge). So if I look at one battery and see that it's 68% charged, you'd think I'd see the same SOC on all of the others. But it doesn't work like that. They can get off by 10% or even 20%.
The problem: This means that my charge controllers can't push a heavy charge to charge the lower charged batteries without also heavily charging the higher charged batteries. If the higher charged batteries are charged at about 80%, my charge controllers have to tone down the charge amount, which means the lower charged batteries won't be charged all the way. Even more so if some of the higher charged batteries are 90% charged or more. If some of the batteries are 100% charged, my charge controllers are just trickle charging the batteries at that point, meaning the lower charged batteries aren't being charged up. Repeat that for the other direction. When draining the batteries my charge controllers won't let the batteries get below 30% SOC (configurable). So having lower charged batteries prevents me from getting use of the high charged batteries.
The solution: Every now and then I go out to the battery bank and look at each battery's charge level during the morning. I turn off the ones that are higher charged, thus directing all charging to the lower charged batteries to catch them up to the higher charged batteries. If you think of each battery as a cell on the bus, that allows each battery to get the charge needed to balance the bus. Eventually I have all of the batteries at the same charge level, turn on all batteries, and they're all charged to 100% by the end of the day (on a sunny day). Doing that "resets" the individual cells within each battery (each battery has 16 cells, times 18 batteries = 288 total cells) so that each battery operates more efficiently. Doing that for all 18 batteries at the same time makes the overall battery bus work efficiently.
I have an iPhone SE 1st gen and it only charges when turned off , it has a new battery and new charging insides ,LOL
My 4-year old cell phone battery was not holding a charge. Went to the Batteries Plus store to see if they had a replacement. For a Blackberry? Yes, for a Blackberry. They checked, couldn’t get one. One clerk says to the other, “He should check with Abdul.”
Abdul in the cellphone repair shop in the strip mall down the street ordered the battery on a Thursday afternoon, installed it in five minutes next Monday afternoon, good as new. Total cost, $40. Been working like it did when it was new, and that was over 3 months ago.
They've now reduced the diameter of the tube within the faucet.
Gone are the days when you could remove the rubber flow restricter.
This ain't what you're asking for but still, that might be a good place to start. Get a bigger well pump and improve your PSI and flow rate on the whole house, especially if you're trying to wash dishes at the same time you're running the washer or whatever.
Well, you asked. :)
This was a problem with my free cellphone that ATT gave me when they introduced 5G. Look at your phone from the side after trying to charge it- If it is noticeably swollen where the battery is, you might be overcharging it. That solved my problems with the battery.
Maybe the cartels can sneak in regular flow faucets and toilets. I hate all this low flow stuff.
MOST faucets have a “DIVERTER SCREEN on the end.
REMOVE IT.
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.