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Ok, firstly, I really don't know a lot about electrics, so excuse me if I get any/all terminology wrong here.
Basically, we've got a 25 year old house. The consumer unit (or fuse box as I call it) is pretty old, and has about 7 fuses/jumpers/what ever the correct term is. 3 are 30amp (plugs on left side of house, plugs on right side of house, and the hob/oven).
On one of the 30amp ones, we run an electric hob - the cable comes out the wall, goes into a square white "junction box" thing, cable out other side and into the hob. (this is all under the kitchen units).
All is fine and dandy at this point, everything working ok.
Now, in addition to the cable running to the hob, an additional cable went to a plug socket. The intention was to plug the oven into the plug socket.
So, I installed the oven yesterday. Of course, the oven doesn't have a plug on the end, so I figured instead of running a cable from junction box to the plug socket, i'd wire the oven into the junction box and remove the plug cable/box.
Which I did. And it all turned on fine. And the oven worked fine for an hours worth of cooking. Then later on (about 1 hour later), whilst we were NOT using the oven, or the hob, the 30 amp breaker that the oven/hob are on tripped out.
I popped the breaker back in again, and the oven & hob display lit up ok.
I'm also wondering if the consumer unit needs replacing?
We tend to suffer for what seem like totally random tripping on the 30 amp breakers. You'd think it was the load, but then it will happily run with the same load for months without tripping, then goes through a spell of tripping a lot.
Anyway, I'm just after some general advice here on if the wiring I've described is ok or sounds dodgy?
Basically, we've got a 25 year old house. The consumer unit (or fuse box as I call it) is pretty old, and has about 7 fuses/jumpers/what ever the correct term is. 3 are 30amp (plugs on left side of house, plugs on right side of house, and the hob/oven).
On one of the 30amp ones, we run an electric hob - the cable comes out the wall, goes into a square white "junction box" thing, cable out other side and into the hob. (this is all under the kitchen units).
All is fine and dandy at this point, everything working ok.
Now, in addition to the cable running to the hob, an additional cable went to a plug socket. The intention was to plug the oven into the plug socket.
So, I installed the oven yesterday. Of course, the oven doesn't have a plug on the end, so I figured instead of running a cable from junction box to the plug socket, i'd wire the oven into the junction box and remove the plug cable/box.
Which I did. And it all turned on fine. And the oven worked fine for an hours worth of cooking. Then later on (about 1 hour later), whilst we were NOT using the oven, or the hob, the 30 amp breaker that the oven/hob are on tripped out.
I popped the breaker back in again, and the oven & hob display lit up ok.
I'm also wondering if the consumer unit needs replacing?
We tend to suffer for what seem like totally random tripping on the 30 amp breakers. You'd think it was the load, but then it will happily run with the same load for months without tripping, then goes through a spell of tripping a lot.
Anyway, I'm just after some general advice here on if the wiring I've described is ok or sounds dodgy?