electric hob wired to cooker point - reassurance required

dandt · 16 Aug 2010

hello
I have an indesit electric hob (bought from homebase)
It has been wired into a cooker point
the cable from consumer unit to cooker switch cooker point is standard 6mmsquared
---what surprised me was the thinness of the cable supplied (attached to hob)
it was flexible as opposed to 6mmsquared (which I have seen attached to other hobs previously

{edit ..I say flexible, thicker than white extension flex but still more flexible than grey 6mmsquared...also for extra info - the black lead contained two 'lives' crimped together and two neutrals crimped together and I think two earths, again crimped}

Can I assume there is no problem with this flexible cable going into standard cooker point?
Naturally customer book is vague because of the many countries sold to..I assume UK is single phase 220-240V
..out of interest which countries have 400V?
thanks for any reassurance you can give me
[I trust the fitting is OK, I just want some extra reassurance and apologies if I am making a fuss over nothing]

BigJon · 16 Aug 2010

Ideally you want to change the cooker point (CCU) to a switched FCU( spur), or replace with a single socket and put a plugtop on it.
I'm presuming rating of the cooker is 13amps?
If all else fails read the instructions

sparkwright · 16 Aug 2010

It is very likely the cable is suitable and that the hob requires somewhere in the region of a 30 or 32 amp supply.

The flexes on these 'heavy' appliances are often smaller than you would think.

So the thing to do first is check the kW rating of the electric hob first.

Assuming it's an all electric hob, I would expect it to be a lot higher than around 3 kW. 3 kW is around the maximum that could be put on the end of a FCU as detailed in the previous post.

Taylortwocities · 17 Aug 2010

BigJon said:
Ideally you want to change the cooker point (CCU) to a switched FCU( spur), or replace with a single socket and put a plugtop on it.
I'm presuming rating of the cooker is 13amps?
If all else fails read the instructions

If all else fails, read the original post. Its a HOB, not a COOKER.

What is the KW rating of this hob?

BigJon · 17 Aug 2010

Taylortwocities said:
BigJon said:

Ideally you want to change the cooker point (CCU) to a switched FCU( spur), or replace with a single socket and put a plugtop on it.
I'm presuming rating of the cooker is 13amps?
If all else fails read the instructions

Click to expand...

If all else fails, read the original post. Its a HOB, not a COOKER.

What is the KW rating of this hob?

Was meant tongue in cheek, thanks for pointing it out though, makes all the difference

PrenticeBoyofDerry · 17 Aug 2010

You need to read the manufacturers instruction supplied with the appliance.
Plus the output of the appliance will help.
It would also help if we knew the size of the protective device serving the 6mm cable.
and is the oven also wired to this outlet?

dandt · 17 Aug 2010

thanks for replies/reassurrance so far
The cooker point (6mm stuff etc) is served by a 32 fuse at consumer unit
My oven had a plug and is plugged into the ringmain (rather than the additional socket provided on cooker point)
as for power rating of hob is 6200
thanks

PrenticeBoyofDerry · 17 Aug 2010

sounds good to go then,
6.2kw demand is 27amps, cable will carry over 32amps.

BigJon · 17 Aug 2010

Shouldn't be a problem putting it in to existing cooker point.

dandt · 18 Aug 2010

many thanks

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