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Hello everyone,
A few months back, a qualified electrician told me that a cooker and a shower can both be put on the same circuit; that doesn't sound right, surely loads using such a large amount of power must be on their own individual circuits?
I haven't been able to ask a question about this until now because I had difficulty logging into my IET account and had to get a new username and password for it.
Thank you,
Dasa
As I keep saying, diversity is about time as well as load.
Agreed. If it help the discussion, here's a snapshot from my home energy monitor. The "comb" shape in the middle is the oven being used to bake a cake - the initial vertical solid area on the left is the oven initially coming up to temperate, after which the thermostat cycles it on and off to maintain temperature - as you can see after the first 7 or 8 minutes it spends more time off than on. (Obviously for higher temperature cooking the mark:space ratio would be higher, but I've yet to see it anything like solid). The narrow peak in the middle is I think the kettle.
- Andy.
As I keep saying, diversity is about time as well as load.
Agreed. If it help the discussion, here's a snapshot from my home energy monitor. The "comb" shape in the middle is the oven being used to bake a cake - the initial vertical solid area on the left is the oven initially coming up to temperate, after which the thermostat cycles it on and off to maintain temperature - as you can see after the first 7 or 8 minutes it spends more time off than on. (Obviously for higher temperature cooking the mark:space ratio would be higher, but I've yet to see it anything like solid). The narrow peak in the middle is I think the kettle.
- Andy.
