Touch this faucet!
Delta's using a new touch feature on some of their new kitchen faucets. This feature is what Delta calls Touch2O™ technology and it's pretty slick. Here's a demo video from Delta that shows how it works. I'll explain how it works in a bit.
So what's going on here is that the faucet and handle have an incredibly faint electrical current running though them. The current's supplied by a battery pack that's installed below the faucet. The power level is so low that it's imperceptible and since it's coming from a battery pack and not household current, it is physically impossible to get a shock from this system. Please make a note of that.
The lynch pin of this low-degree current device is a solenoid valve in the base of the faucet. You can see the solenoid in phase B of the instance under. It's the container the water deliver line runs through. A solenoid valve is largely an digital transfer, and in this situation it really works like a grasp transfer. When a person turns on the faucet, the solenoid involves existence in a manner of speakme. With the water turned on from the source and the temperature set, all you want to do to is touch the tap spout or manage and the water will turn off. Touch it once more and the water turns lower back on. Since this is a battery-operated gadget, the batteries will need to be modified periodically. Delta took this into account and integrated a hallmark into the tap. At the lowest of the fixture, there may be a small LED light that shines blue while the gadget's activated. When the batteries start to move low, that blue LED will flash crimson.
There's additionally an automatic, 4-minute cut off constructed into this gadget. If the water's left strolling for 4 mins without a activity, it'll turn itself off. A in addition cool characteristic of this era is that it by no means takes over the guide operation of the faucet. At any point, someone can turn on and stale the tap conventionally, on the lever.
The whole point of this kind of switching technology is to be able to avoid touching a faucet handle with the dreaded "chicken hands." It's a perfectly valid concern by the way, "chicken hands" are an obvious source of cross contamination woes. Anybody who's suffered a bout of salmonella poisoning will tell you that practicing sensible hygiene around food is a very good thing indeed. Touch2O™ makes it easy to be smart and sensible and congratulations to Delta are in order. You can read more about Delta's new products on their website.
Finally, someone asked me on Friday if any such taps may be grew to become on by accident by way of a meandering cat. The answer's an unequivocal no and a higher question is why do you allow your cat climb around in your kitchen counters? Now the solution's a no because a person has to show on the faucet's deal with from the get move. Unless you have a cat which can activate a faucet manually, you're pleasant. Well, you're great to this point as the cat turning on the tap goes. Clamoring cats bring with them an entire raft of other pass contamination woes, however I wager it's part of the pleasure of cat ownership. Right?