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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.


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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.


     


    Hi please could you give a link to the instructions for the cooker?


    I usually do an “all on” functional test, to make sure everything clicks on and off as it should, and many electric cooker instructions suggest running all ovens for an hour at 200C before cooking food to burn off the oils etc that are used in the manufacturing process, though it wouldn’t apply to induction or glass halogen hobs.


    Knowing how a cooker actually works does seem remarkably lacking in most topics on installing electric cookers!


     


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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.


     


    Hi please could you give a link to the instructions for the cooker?


    I usually do an “all on” functional test, to make sure everything clicks on and off as it should, and many electric cooker instructions suggest running all ovens for an hour at 200C before cooking food to burn off the oils etc that are used in the manufacturing process, though it wouldn’t apply to induction or glass halogen hobs.


    Knowing how a cooker actually works does seem remarkably lacking in most topics on installing electric cookers!


     


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