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Oven & hob on 13amp fused spur

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I’ve come across an electric oven and gas hob on a cooker circuit, the cooker switch feeds a 13a fused spur which powers both the Oven & hob, hard wired into a 32amp junction box.
the oven is rated at 13 amps but the hob 3 amps Is this acceptable as the hob is protected by a 13 amp fuse?

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    To me the 4mm sounds like cut and paste from the instruction book from a larger model, and not a lot of thought at the level of the supposedly technical author.  i.e. just plain wrong. 

    The clincher will be to inspect the terminals on the oven, that probably can only take 2,5mm or smaller anyway.

    It is not that uncommon to see instructions translated from the foreign or indeed universal instructions for more than one product, with this sort of thing in.

    By all means take account of the instructions, but it may be that the authors actions are to be  weighed in the balances and found wanting,  as it were.

    To misquote a book telling us how to behave, that pre-dates BS7671 by quite a bit.

    Mike.


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    To me the 4mm sounds like cut and paste from the instruction book from a larger model, and not a lot of thought at the level of the supposedly technical author.  i.e. just plain wrong. 

    The clincher will be to inspect the terminals on the oven, that probably can only take 2,5mm or smaller anyway.

    It is not that uncommon to see instructions translated from the foreign or indeed universal instructions for more than one product, with this sort of thing in.

    By all means take account of the instructions, but it may be that the authors actions are to be  weighed in the balances and found wanting,  as it were.

    To misquote a book telling us how to behave, that pre-dates BS7671 by quite a bit.

    Mike.


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