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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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    ebee:

    For a long time I have never favoured the Cooker Control Unit with a 13A socket outlet. Just a plain switch to isolate for safety and convenience.

    A socket for few uses of a kettle does not worry me but when used for a washing m/c or tumble dryer as I see often then I don`t like.

    Also many homes with at least the cooker circuit being non RCD still in use and it is by no means unknown for the cooker socket to be used on an outdoors extension lead.


    And..................a cooker control unit with a 13 Amp. socket included encourages the trailing of flexes over the cooker in some cases. Flexes flambeau anyone?


    Z.


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    ebee:

    For a long time I have never favoured the Cooker Control Unit with a 13A socket outlet. Just a plain switch to isolate for safety and convenience.

    A socket for few uses of a kettle does not worry me but when used for a washing m/c or tumble dryer as I see often then I don`t like.

    Also many homes with at least the cooker circuit being non RCD still in use and it is by no means unknown for the cooker socket to be used on an outdoors extension lead.


    And..................a cooker control unit with a 13 Amp. socket included encourages the trailing of flexes over the cooker in some cases. Flexes flambeau anyone?


    Z.


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