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Ovens on cooker ccts

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In domestic kitchens, what do you think of the practice of connecting ovens to 32/40A cb cooker ccts via dual cooker connection outlet plates? For example, along with a 6kw hob, a 2.5kw oven is connected via a 1.5mm2 3 core h/r flex? One view is that it's acceptable because the flex can't be overloaded and the cb provides s/c protection for the flex, nor would it be coded on an eicr.


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    Poor practice in my view, unless the oven manufacturer states that this is acceptable. The oven is almost certainly intended to be connected to a circuit protected by a 15 amp or 16 amp OCPD, and to connect it to 32 amp or larger circuit is unwise. Any internal fault or failure in the oven is liable to be more destructive and possibly dangerous with an oversized OCPD.


    The practice is very common, but that does not make it sensible.
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    Poor practice in my view, unless the oven manufacturer states that this is acceptable. The oven is almost certainly intended to be connected to a circuit protected by a 15 amp or 16 amp OCPD, and to connect it to 32 amp or larger circuit is unwise. Any internal fault or failure in the oven is liable to be more destructive and possibly dangerous with an oversized OCPD.


    The practice is very common, but that does not make it sensible.
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