Cue pedant with inevitable comment about the reliability of manufacturers' instructions......
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... unless he's talking about a driving licence (or isn't in the UK), I don't know what sort of 'licence' a UK electrician could have... a real electrician with qualifications and licence
Indeed so, and you'll also sometimes hear about the converse - 'registered electricians' who are not competent!Then he added "competent doesn't mean registered electrician ...
It means that one has to be 'competent' (in the everyday sense) to do the work safely, which will usually require at least some understanding of basic electrical principles and skills, and certainly cannot be guaranteed to be possible solely on the basis of manufacturer's instructions (even those which have been translated reasonably well from the Chinese, Polish or whatever!)..... it just means that they can follow basic electrical instructions provided by the manufacturer"
Ignoring Taylortwocities who clearly does not care about safety would you follow these manufacturers instructions.
It is B&Q by the way.
Winnie has found one example of MIs that are not correct. He keeps wheeling this example out and spouting that obviously) all MIs are not to be trusted.What's wrong with these instructions?
They're crystal clear to me.
I'd leave a 13A in there.
Although we rightly take a lot of care to ensure that cables are adequate in size for the currents they are to carry, I do wonder whether many fires have actually resulted from under-sized cables, alone, since I think that a cable would probably have to be seriously under-sized it to become hot enough to start a fire. I would think that poor connections (of adequately-sized cables) are a far more common cause of fires.... I know that it is essential to have a good understanding of kilowatt loads and the size of cable required to handle such loads per my bro who was a proper leccy. There have been thousands of electrical fires over the years caused by people who lacked such knowledge.
That obviously depends upon how one interprets 'fixed wiring' but, as you say, no-one in their right mind would (in Wales) go to the cost of notifying the use of an extension lead in a kitchen just because the sockets and/or cable were in some way 'fixed' to the room. In England, of course, the issue does not arise.In theory in Wales we can use an extension lead in a kitchen without notifying, but if we want to fix the lead to the wall and put cable cleats in the cable to keep it neat and away from water, we should notify.
Well…it CAN be plugged in to a ring final, but SHOULD it be?As far as I know stoves and ovens etc depend on the current they draw. 13A can be connected to a socket circuit and if it comes with a plug can be plugged in.
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