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Range Cooker Connection Refusal.

A lady today asked me to estimate to do some cooker circuit alterations in her house. She has an old electric range cooker in the kitchen which she is to replace with a new one rated at about 11.2kW.

A certain national electrical retailer would not connect up her new and paid for range cooker as the cooker supply is run in 10.00mm2 T&E and protected by a B50 M.C.B. plus R.C.D.

The reason given was that the supply is too big and will overload the new cooker.

The retailer insisted that the B50 M.C.B. be replaced by a B40 M.C.B. and the final cooker connection from connection unit to cooker, be run in 6.0mm2, the 10.002 final connection being removed.

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0 ebee over 3 years ago

Yep True Dave.

As an aside, remember I`ve mentioned that a customer was slating a previous contractor over “wrong cable size (the man from the council told me he had done that”. When I looked at it, it turned out the contractor had gone over the minimum size required an I suspect the council chappy had remarked something like “it`s larger than it needs to be” and this got wrongly translated as wrong cable size. I`ve seen other instances of such things in electrically unrelated speak too
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0 ebee over 3 years ago

Yep True Dave.

As an aside, remember I`ve mentioned that a customer was slating a previous contractor over “wrong cable size (the man from the council told me he had done that”. When I looked at it, it turned out the contractor had gone over the minimum size required an I suspect the council chappy had remarked something like “it`s larger than it needs to be” and this got wrongly translated as wrong cable size. I`ve seen other instances of such things in electrically unrelated speak too
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