Six years ago we had a new kitchen installed. The cooker circuit is radial with a 32A MCB. To this the electrician fitted a cooker socket control unit and a separate 13A switched fused spur.
The induction hob is rated at 3kW and was fitted with a plug into the cooker switch socket. The oven was 2.99kW and was hard wired to the separate switch box.
The cooker socket and fused spur are fitted to the back of a cupboard adjacent to the oven. Is this permitted? Also, the big red switch isn't connected to anything.
The oven died recently and was replaced with a unit from Ikea rated at 2.6kW, but the manual says it requires a minimum 16A fuse. Why?
Does that mean the installation doesn't meet regulations? Should he have used a DIN rail connector with two 16A MCBs?
Mike
