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Evening Bernard, the connector block is only loose like that because it has a tendency to come away from it's home when the back is removed, it clips neatly back into place though. The cable I think is 6mm from the CU terminates behind the cooker on one of those round, brown junction boxes. The...

Thanks flameport, that settles my mind a bit w.r.t. the burn mark and why I figured that the wires weren't damaged though they were appearing charred. I've put it all back together for the night now so we can get dinner sorted, but I'll see if I can spot evidence of a missing/defective seal...

oh, sorry, arrived at the cable being 6mm2 by refering to a chart here //www.diynot.com/forums/viewtopic.php?p=108451#108451 image of the damage here:

6mm2 cable on the 16A breaker since I moved in 4 years ago. The house was apparently certified as electrically safe or whatever it is when the new consumer unit was installed as a condition of sale. In doing some reading online when I was about to buy a new breaker it became apparent that 16A...

Cable to the cooker is 6mm2 and is about 15m from the consumer unit. I re-checked the resistance of the elements on an easier to read scale: Grill 1: 30ohm Grill 2: 120ohm Top oven: 50ohm Bottom oven: 25ohm I've since removed all the connectors for the elements and taped them up with...

Hello, The blinding flash under my ceramic top happened with 2 halogen hobs lit just as I turned on the top oven. It destroyed the MCB in consumer unit. It turns out that the MCB being only 16A wasn't big enough for a 10KW Electrolux ECK6046W cooker anyway, and I've replaced it with a 20A...