Cooker and hob fitting advice needed

[ban-all-sheds]

Maybe so ,but i don't think anyone in this country would go to all that trouble to fit a 16amp socket ?

They probably wouldn't.

Such sockets contravene the Wiring Regulations anyway.

also one could argue that bosch don't really take the UK in to account when making these hobs.

It's a Bosch.

It is designed to go into houses which have 16A socket circuits, i.e. mainland Europe.

It is not designed to go into houses which have 32A socket circuits with 13A fused plugs, i.e. the UK.

Also as stated ,the protection is really for the cable and not the hob

In theory.

Must be tempting for a maker to shave costs by not including any internal protection if he's specced 16A external...

,if there is a fault the consumer would trip before anything major happened .

In theory...

Also all hobs i have come across will take 6mm cable .

This is a 2.3kW oven.

 

[EFLImpudence]

Also as stated ,the protection is really for the cable .

That is true and if your oven and hob were one, i.e. a cooker, you would have no alternative and it is doubtful anything inside either would be different.

It is also dependent on whether Bosch's requirement for 16A is a minimum or a maximum.

 

[echoes]

Having just read the installation instructions, they state that the the 'national regulations apply'. Which means it should be installed according to BS7671. No mention of specific fusing requirements, so direct connection to a 32A protected (dual) cooker outlet using 4mm cable would be fine.

They do prohibit a 13A plug and a 13A fuse. Don't know why. Probably generic instructions covering higher power stuff.

The European oven instructions I have read specify, if anything, a 16A minimum circuit proctective device.

 

[pipefitter]

Having just read the installation instructions, they state that the the 'national regulations apply'. Which means it should be installed according to BS7671. No mention of specific fusing requirements, so direct connection to a 32A protected (dual) cooker outlet using 4mm cable would be fine.

They do prohibit a 13A plug and a 13A fuse. Don't know why. Probably generic instructions covering higher power stuff.

The European oven instructions I have read specify, if anything, a 16A minimum circuit proctective device.

Thanks for the clarification.

@ban-all-sheds meant to say oven not hobb