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Default How can those Chinese water heaters work?



"FMurtz" wrote in message
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Andy Bennet wrote:
On 29/11/2018 20:30, Bruce Farquhar wrote:
Those cheap Chinese water heaters which are simply two plates of metal,
one on live and one on neutral, how can they work? Because the
resistivity of tap water apparently varies from 2 to 200 ohm metres.
That's a range of 100 fold in possible power output. I assume the
resistivity changes due to impurities like lime in hard water areas?


Big Clive did a review of these a couple of years ago
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EViyccc2t9w

and John Ward more recently
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0BPCife3tWs


Big clive is more accurate, the other nong was making factually incorrect
statements.


And has a much more irritating style.