electric oven.

[rembrant]

just bought new oven with gas hob above,both come with three pin 13a plugs fitted, no double plug near by,can i use 32a cooker cable that was used befor and if so how. cheers

 

[Steve]

Put 2 single socket outlets on the end of it, after the cooker switch. NOT A DOUBLE.

And protect it at the fuse box / consumer unit with a 30 amp fuse / 32 amp MCB.

 

[RF Lighting]

out of interest why not a double?

 

[Steve]

Because they could both be used to supply high-powered fixed appliances, and your average double socket is only rated at about 15-20A

(though i understand a gas hob only eats a few watts during ignition, someone could plug a washing machine or tumble dryer in here, being as it is under the worktop and convenient for plugging in fixed loads)

 

[RF Lighting]

your average double socket is only rated at about 15-20A

Time to change brands / manufactures might be a good idea perhaps. Never heard or seen this before. Surely if this is the case they would not comply with BS1363 or BS7671 and therefor not be allowed for sale (legally at least)

 

[rembrant]

cheers crafty,do i just link them together with the original 32a cooker cable,your right about the one being used to ignight the gas..

 

[cozycats]

Crafty is right on the capacity of d/skts, but I can't really see people unplugging their hob to plug in the tumbler. Although not best practise I've had my w/m and t/d plugged into the same d/skt for at least 15 yrs, they are invariably on at the same time, and have no problems whatsoever. """Discrimination rules ya ya ya""" or something like that!

 

[JohnD]

When the 13A sockets were designed, the teams had in mind that a "big" load would be a 3-bar electrc fire, and "obviously" you wouldn't expect anyone to have two of them next to each other. At the time tumble driers were unheard of, as were dishwashers, and few loads exceeded 10Amps.

Today, lots of people have a cluster of big appliances in their kitchens and utility rooms - a washing machine, a tumble drier and a dishwasher, a fast electric kettle, maybe a combination microwave and single oven that doesn't ned a CCU, so I'm reluctantly coming to the view that, for kitchens at least, the ring circuit and double socket may no longer be the perfect solution. Personally I've always put big appliances on their own switch and socket, on the grounds that, by size and weight, they are practically fixed; and my utility room has my well-known array of single sockets in vast numbers.

Though I have my doubts about a good-quality double socket being able to cope, as most loads are intermittent.