Hi can anybody help me out here. My daughter is trying to open a small restaurant and has inherited some equipment from the previous owners. She has one of these hot counters with heat lamps and the lamps were not working, so she asked me to look as I used to be building services/qualified electrician.
I took it apart and one or two of the cables need replacing. They are a sort of cloth/fibre covered heat resistant cable. I have come across them before, but it was a long time ago that I did any work on kitchen equipment so I cannot remember where we would get this sort of cable from. I have looked in the catalogues of a couple of wholesaler I use sometimes and they don't appear to have it. They have some flex which goes up to about 85 deg but really I want singles and I suspect the stuff I want would stand much higher temperatures.
Can you still get the stuff I want or has it been superseded by something and where can I get it from?
Another thing, because it is in a hot inviroment it has ceramic connectors and they dunt seem to be so easily available, especially in larger sizes, ie 32A. Is there a place that I should be able to get all this stuff?
Ideally I wanted to just pop to a shop and pick some up, but it does not look like I can so easily as I cant seem to find it looking on the net.
It all so has some spade connectors with covers, are they special rated for heat, as I think ordinary covered ones would have the covers melting?
Any help appreciated
I took it apart and one or two of the cables need replacing. They are a sort of cloth/fibre covered heat resistant cable. I have come across them before, but it was a long time ago that I did any work on kitchen equipment so I cannot remember where we would get this sort of cable from. I have looked in the catalogues of a couple of wholesaler I use sometimes and they don't appear to have it. They have some flex which goes up to about 85 deg but really I want singles and I suspect the stuff I want would stand much higher temperatures.
Can you still get the stuff I want or has it been superseded by something and where can I get it from?
Another thing, because it is in a hot inviroment it has ceramic connectors and they dunt seem to be so easily available, especially in larger sizes, ie 32A. Is there a place that I should be able to get all this stuff?
Ideally I wanted to just pop to a shop and pick some up, but it does not look like I can so easily as I cant seem to find it looking on the net.
It all so has some spade connectors with covers, are they special rated for heat, as I think ordinary covered ones would have the covers melting?
Any help appreciated