Pleasant shower experience

Our old mixer tap knew only two settings: too cold or too hot. It was not possible to obtain something in between back. So I looked around for a mixer with thermostat.
Cheap products from the hardware store, I did not want to, but equally some neat and so I came across Hansgrohe. The Ecostat 1001 SL not seemed cheap, but also not too expensive, so I was hoping for decent quality.
As it looks now it?

Mounting
I am a layman and did not have the right tool. Specifically, you need to instructions a 24'er and a 30'er wrench. Then there are variables which I had not. From a pipe wrench is not recommended because it leaves traces. So I borrowed the right tool.
In order to have enough room in the distance between the terminals, there are adapters that can rotate towards so that we arrive at exactly 150mm distance between hot and cold water. Unfortunately, this is the valve by about 2cm further forward, what I did not like. However, since the 150mm distance are probably a standard, I could sit directly on the connections of the old faucet. Maybe there like adapter has already been installed, but they are landed behind the flow and thus invisible to me.

Commissioning
The water was clearly too hot once. To adjust the temperature you lift the cover carefully to the side from (without damaging it) and adjusts the temperature with a small Allen key correctly. I did not find it so easy, especially because you are in the shower just poorly reach. In addition, there is a risk that a fall down a small part and then end up in the drain.
The temperature, I first set only to feel what my wife then but was too cool - the limit set is 38 °. How do you measure? I finally used a thermometer. This is precisely in this temperature range and is waterproof - so not an expensive for the ears, but a cheap. Either yet. Classic with alcohol or mercury or up with screen that is available for a few euros to Buy

Function
The temperature setting works well and we finally have a comfortable temperature in the shower. If fluctuations in the inlet you realize that. Feels like it's going up or down by a few degrees. For me this is the tolerable range. After an estimated 3-5 seconds the desired temperature is then adjusted again.

Rating
What bothered me was the laborious adjustment of the temperature. That the valve does not even fit nearly at delivery, but was completely wrong, was still a point. Both has meant that I have written down a point.
Otherwise, I do not want to give up our Ecostat. In operation it is really convincing.