BIG BIG Range Cooker.

Weirdbeard:

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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!


 

No can do.  The cooker was supplied by the customer. I left the paperwork at his house. I did though advise the owner that he should burn off all protective grease from any heating elements with the kitchen doors and windows open and the extractor fan on.



Edit, add. The cooker could be wired for more than one phase. The terminals were L1. L2, L3, (linked out for 240 Volts) N1, N2  (linked) and E. So in some countries more than one phase is required.


Z.

Weirdbeard:

Zoomup:

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!


 

No can do.  The cooker was supplied by the customer. I left the paperwork at his house. I did though advise the owner that he should burn off all protective grease from any heating elements with the kitchen doors and windows open and the extractor fan on.



Edit, add. The cooker could be wired for more than one phase. The terminals were L1. L2, L3, (linked out for 240 Volts) N1, N2  (linked) and E. So in some countries more than one phase is required.


Z.