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A "Showerthought" is a simple term used to describe the thoughts that pop into your head while you're doing everyday things like taking a shower, driving, or just daydreaming. The most popular seem to be lighthearted clever little truths, hidden in daily life.
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- Both “200” and “160” are 2 minutes in microwave math
- When you’re a kid, you don’t realize you’re also watching your mom and dad grow up.
- More dreams have been destroyed by alarm clocks than anything else
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I don't understand how what you're suggesting could work any differently than a standard mixer tap, where if you want full cold you turn it the way to cold, and pull all the way to fully open. You say "you'd generally lose maximum water pressure" - how does the mechanism you're thinking of actually set the ratio of hot to cold, and how does it not lose pressure?
zheres your standard two tap mixer faucet:
At both taps full open you have full flow/pressure from both the hot water and cold water supply only restricted by the valve full open orifice.
Now add an additional valve to the mixed outlet of the faucet with both hot and cold feeding into the line that runs into it. If the valve is sized to accommodate the full flow from both valves feeding into it, the full combined pressure/flow from both cold mains and hot supply is available.
Also, once you set the temperature you like by turning the temp taps, that temp will be available to you at any flow rate on demand. Nothing you do to the mixed valve will change the temperature of the flow. This is especially useful if your hot temperature is very hot, you can have nice warm water to wash your hands every time without worrying you might scald yourself.
Ok, but what's wrong with a standard single lever mixer, or a two handle (temp and flow) mixer? Never had a problem with them.
I'm not familiar with a temp and flow two handle mixer for a sink faucet. That could work well if the temp valve is full bore.
Single handle faucets dont replicate temps, you have to guess approximate temp each time and they are almost always center biased.
But you can easily remember the approximate position of the lever, which is all you really need to get appropriately warm water for hand washing. The problem with normal hot and cold taps is really that it's hard to replicate the settings, even approximately. (Also, while you can try to remember "half turn cold, two turns hot", you then have to do arithmetic to get any different flow - ew)
Since the cold water supply will fluctuate in temperature from day to day, you won't actually get exactly the same temp unless you use a thermostatic mixer (which exist for showers but I'm guessing are hard to find if they exist for sinks, because... why would you need one?) even with your solution - so I think the single lever version is always good enough.
I don't understand what centre-bias means here.