Lots of houses have an electric cooker point. The question gets asked time and again; how to connect separate hob and oven? From what I have been reading over the last 8 months, 32A CB is typical for 90% of hobs sold and a 16A CB is typical of 90% of ovens (although some allow 13A plug or FCU with 3mm double-pole isolation). A lot of installations are carried out by barely qualified 'installers'. As a consumer, I would like to know what to look for in a good installation.
Considerations would include:
Considerations would include:
- single point of isolation above counter
is it OK to re-use an existing 10sqmm cooker point for both hob and oven?
concealing CU with 16A and 32A CBs under the counter (no additional isolator?)
flex/cable from 32A CB to hob
flex/cable from 16A CB to oven
does cooker point have 3mm double-pole isolation?
does switched FCU have 3mm double-pole isolation? (I don't think so)