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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?
As you can find nothing wrong with my simple suggestion you try and play the H&S card! Perhaps you do this with your customers, I hope not because it is simply fraudulent. You appear to think that rings and radial final circuits should be limited to less than three 13A sockets on the basis that otherwise they are dangerous, using your own logic and comments. Perhaps you should explain why, and quote the accident rate due to the practice of unlimited numbers on either type of circuit. A little homework on this should be a very necessary lesson on truth. I thought I had heard everything electrical but this "takes the biscuit", using a colloquialism because the proper words would probably be moderated out!
As you can find nothing wrong with my simple suggestion you try and play the H&S card! Perhaps you do this with your customers, I hope not because it is simply fraudulent. You appear to think that rings and radial final circuits should be limited to less than three 13A sockets on the basis that otherwise they are dangerous, using your own logic and comments. Perhaps you should explain why, and quote the accident rate due to the practice of unlimited numbers on either type of circuit. A little homework on this should be a very necessary lesson on truth. I thought I had heard everything electrical but this "takes the biscuit", using a colloquialism because the proper words would probably be moderated out!
