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Electric cooker switches

Arran Cameron
I hope that this doesn't come across as a daft question...


Why do most electric cooker switches have an in-built socket? Do analogous cooker switches exist in other countries that use different types of mains sockets?


I used to think that the socket was for plugging in a gas cooker electric ignition, but there is no real reason for having a separate circuit from the ring main for this.
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    A 13amp socket on a cooker control unit should be protected by a 30mA/40/msec RCD. Now on a new wire installation, I had the misfortune being asked to find out why a mains RCD was sometimes tripping, found out the cooker was sometimes causing this tripping 

     Why did the NICEIC contractor (they are the only ones that can do a council grant for a new installation) not replace the old cooker unit with a new one without the integrated 13amp socket, well fussy woman would not let them touch the kitchen tiles it must have been the solution protect all with 30mA RCD. The old 7/.062 red and black cable still in place, if they were saving money I would at least sleeved the cables brown and blue. In between the years, if supply being TT protection was by voltage-operated trip and then to more sensitive current operated trip, all socket circuits were 30mA protected and cooker 100mA.

    Not now but then If it was TNCS you could fit no RCD for cooker circuit. nowadays ultra sensitive RCD even has to be fitted on all lighting circuits.
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    A 13amp socket on a cooker control unit should be protected by a 30mA/40/msec RCD. Now on a new wire installation, I had the misfortune being asked to find out why a mains RCD was sometimes tripping, found out the cooker was sometimes causing this tripping 

     Why did the NICEIC contractor (they are the only ones that can do a council grant for a new installation) not replace the old cooker unit with a new one without the integrated 13amp socket, well fussy woman would not let them touch the kitchen tiles it must have been the solution protect all with 30mA RCD. The old 7/.062 red and black cable still in place, if they were saving money I would at least sleeved the cables brown and blue. In between the years, if supply being TT protection was by voltage-operated trip and then to more sensitive current operated trip, all socket circuits were 30mA protected and cooker 100mA.

    Not now but then If it was TNCS you could fit no RCD for cooker circuit. nowadays ultra sensitive RCD even has to be fitted on all lighting circuits.
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