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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?
And electrical work is not a profession - thereby making us professionals. We are a trade, that may try to carry out work in a professional way but that does not make us professionals in the sense of Dr's, lawyers, architects, engineers, etc, so no grandisement of the trade please.
That's an interesting viewpoint and one which I admire. One might, however, argue that design work is engineering and, therefore, professional. 20 years ago, a chum of mine (whose house was one of the first on a small estate) asked various building tradesmen whether they considered that they were professional or not. IIRC, they associated professionalism with experience and expertise. That is probably the modern interpretation.
Another interpretation would be that a professional puts the client's interests first, but that a tradesman will sell whatever he (or she) can.
And electrical work is not a profession - thereby making us professionals. We are a trade, that may try to carry out work in a professional way but that does not make us professionals in the sense of Dr's, lawyers, architects, engineers, etc, so no grandisement of the trade please.
That's an interesting viewpoint and one which I admire. One might, however, argue that design work is engineering and, therefore, professional. 20 years ago, a chum of mine (whose house was one of the first on a small estate) asked various building tradesmen whether they considered that they were professional or not. IIRC, they associated professionalism with experience and expertise. That is probably the modern interpretation.
Another interpretation would be that a professional puts the client's interests first, but that a tradesman will sell whatever he (or she) can.
