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Two high-power appliances on a single 40A RCD
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I have an electric shower installed on a 40A RCD, in a room adjacent to my kitchen. The shower is only used in an emergency - i.e. when our gas boiler is unable to provide hot water to our main bathroom. I would like to take a spur from this 40A connection to use for a new double oven, which is rated at 32A. Can anyone advise on a safe and legal way to do this, ensuring that only one of the two appliances can be connected at any one time?
cfcman dont expect an answer on this forum. However look it at another way if you were to install a seperate circuit for the cooker you may well need to inform your supplier of the additional load, but again this very really happens, an electrician will come along bang in the circuit bill you and go. What you are propossing would seem to be a good idea as there would be no additional load added to the system. Where installations have electric wet system boilers and a shower installed a shower priority switch needs to be installed.
cfcman dont expect an answer on this forum. However look it at another way if you were to install a seperate circuit for the cooker you may well need to inform your supplier of the additional load, but again this very really happens, an electrician will come along bang in the circuit bill you and go. What you are propossing would seem to be a good idea as there would be no additional load added to the system. Where installations have electric wet system boilers and a shower installed a shower priority switch needs to be installed.
