Oh! I have a relative who just installed one of those. It’s hands-down the most infuriating thing in the house.
The gimmick is that touching anywhere on the faucet body or its handle toggles some kind of solenoid to cut or resume the flow.
You still use its physical handle to set the flow and temperature—but the act of touching that handle registers as a “cut off water” capacitive touch.
So any time you try to turn on the water, it spits for a fraction of a second then cuts off the flow. Then locks out your subsequent touches as some kind of demented debounce kind of thing.
Same thing if you try to pull out its retractable head to wash down the basin.
The gimmick is that touching anywhere on the faucet body or its handle toggles some kind of solenoid to cut or resume the flow.
You still use its physical handle to set the flow and temperature—but the act of touching that handle registers as a “cut off water” capacitive touch.
So any time you try to turn on the water, it spits for a fraction of a second then cuts off the flow. Then locks out your subsequent touches as some kind of demented debounce kind of thing.
Same thing if you try to pull out its retractable head to wash down the basin.
I couldn’t wish a dead battery on it fast enough…