3090W oven flex

[Master of None]

My new oven has arrived without a flex and plug. My old oven plugged in to a socket in the adjacent cabinet controlled by a sfcu above worktop on the kitchen ring final. I chose this oven because it could be swapped like for like. However the manufactures instructions state it can be fitted with a 13A plug but it has to be 2.5mm butyl insulated flex. The only 2.5mm flex I can find is arctic flex at 10mm OD. Would this suffice ?

Why does it have to be such heavy flex when the singles used inside the oven look rather thinner ?

I have attached the manufactures instructions and a photo.

Thank you

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• Master of None
• 5 Dec 2009
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• Master of None
• 5 Dec 2009
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• Master of None
• 5 Dec 2009
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[PrenticeBoyofDerry]

http://www.tlc-direct.co.uk/Main_Index/Cable_Index/Flex_Butyl/index.html
Artic Cable? No!

 

[Master of None]

Thank you

Artic Cable? No!

Checked maplin they don't do it.
Do you know anywhere I could pick it up by the metre?
I require less than 2m

Thanks Again.

 

[ericmark]

B&Q I agree the 50M offered in Screwfix at £72.58 seem a lot to buy but any normal electrical supplier will sell by the meter cable which is normally used in low quantities but an Electronics shop is not really the place for mains cable!

 

[Master of None]

Thank you both very much, B&Q it is then.

PS I did check there it was the butyl insulated bit that threw me. I presume the Tower Flex Heat Resistant 3 Core is of equal spec?

Thanks

 

[Taylortwocities]

The Tower one will do just fine.

That's why there's a picture of a hob on the packet!

 

[electronicsuk]

Thank you both very much, B&Q it is then.

Be prepare to spend £5 a metre. I needed some in a hurry and had to buy from B&Q, a mate and I were so shocked by the price that we stuck on a barcode from some 2.5mm singles before going through the checkout!

 

[flameport]

As you have an FCU above the worktop already, change the socket for a connection plate. It will be much easier to fit the wires into. 2.5mm into a 13A plug is possible, but will be very difficult.

 

[ban-all-sheds]

Why does it have to be such heavy flex when the singles used inside the oven look rather thinner ?

More to the point, why does it have to be such heavy flex when it's only got to carry just over 13A?

More to the point, why does it have to be such heavy flex when it's got to go into a plug, and you can't (officially) get 2.5mm² into a plug?

More to the point, why does it have to be such heavy flex in the UK when in the rest of Europe it does not?

More to the point, why does it have to be butyl rubber flex when connected via a plug but PVC is OK if it's wired to a cooker outlet plate?

Ditto when one of the cable types listed as OK for the rest of Europe is H05VV-F?

 

[ban-all-sheds]

2.5mm into a 13A plug is possible, but will be very difficult.

1.5mm² will be easier.

 

[ccam108]

Surely if anything a larger cable should be used in Europe, as they are on 230V and we are on 240V(ish).

Should draw 13.43A at 230V, but only around 12.87A at 240V, more than within the capacity of 1.5mm^2 flex.

Colin C

 

[Taylortwocities]

1.5mm² will be easier.

I thought that we always advised posters to follow the manufacturers instructions?

 

[ban-all-sheds]

Surely if anything a larger cable should be used in Europe, as they are on 230V and we are on 240V(ish).

Only if they've found some way of making constant power heating elements, rather than simple resistive ones.

Which they haven't.

 

[ban-all-sheds]

I thought that we always advised posters to follow the manufacturers instructions?

Even when clearly written by an idiot, and advising people to do something potentially unsafe?

 

[TicklyT]

Surely if anything a larger cable should be used in Europe, as they are on 230V and we are on 240V(ish).

Should draw 13.43A at 230V, but only around 12.87A at 240V, more than within the capacity of 1.5mm^2 flex.

Colin C

Here we go again..... The load is resistive, so the power will INCREASE if the voltage is increased

The resistance is constant, not the power.