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Applying diversity

When calculating the load to size a cable for a cooking appliance, do you apply diversity?  For clarity , I do but not sure I should.

Parents
  • On Christmas Day when all the bits and bobs might be used, you wouldn't put your peas on at the same time that you put the turkey in the oven now would you?

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  • On Christmas Day when all the bits and bobs might be used, you wouldn't put your peas on at the same time that you put the turkey in the oven now would you?

Children
  • My mother would!

    And the sprouts Rolling eyes

  • LOL. Well our parents and grandparents did have a tendency to boil things to death for days not minutes !

    Once you left nursery and started at infant school then the occasion was marked by cooking the carrots and would only be taken off heat once you left senior school to start an apprenticeship or university . Then served before they went cold