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BIG BIG Range Cooker.

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I wired up a big range cooker today in a new house. 14kW ish. A 32 Amp 6.0mm2 circuit. Final meter of T&E in 4.0mm2. The big worry is that we could not find a cooker switch on the wall anywhere, just the cooker connection plate. Perhaps not needed by the Regs. nowadays, but nice to turn off when cleaning the cooker, servicing it or in case of emergency, or last thing at night to stop children fiddling.


I warned the owner that it is not a good idea to turn on all ovens and hobs at once.


Z.
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    mapj1:

    The cooker may be bigger than the one it replaces, but the real question is if it will be required to cook more food. If a larger ring is used to boll the same volume of water or heat a frying pan of given size, it will do it quicker, but unless a higher temperature is selected, it will then spend a greater fraction of the the time with the thermostat in the off state, so the heating, of food, of cables and of company fuse, all scale more or less in proportion.


    So someone buying a bigger cooker for a new extended family or larger dinner parties is more of a risk for the cables than someone talked into an upgrade by the kitchen salesman whose domestic loading has not changed.

    Mike,


    This is a new cooker Mike, no previous cooker was installed, and no cooker control switch exists.


    Z.


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    mapj1:

    The cooker may be bigger than the one it replaces, but the real question is if it will be required to cook more food. If a larger ring is used to boll the same volume of water or heat a frying pan of given size, it will do it quicker, but unless a higher temperature is selected, it will then spend a greater fraction of the the time with the thermostat in the off state, so the heating, of food, of cables and of company fuse, all scale more or less in proportion.


    So someone buying a bigger cooker for a new extended family or larger dinner parties is more of a risk for the cables than someone talked into an upgrade by the kitchen salesman whose domestic loading has not changed.

    Mike,


    This is a new cooker Mike, no previous cooker was installed, and no cooker control switch exists.


    Z.


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