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I have just bought a ceramic hob which is rated at 6.6kW (it is to replace a gas hob). We have an existing oven/grill rated at 2.8kw.
The house is new. Behind the oven is a spur from the cooker socket to which the oven is connected and also a 13amp fused spur (which supplies the ignition to the gas hob at the moment).
From what I read here the oven could be run from the 13amp spur and I could then use the cooker spur for the hob. If that all checks out then that's fine but what I don't understand is why, if the oven can be run from a 13amp supply, does it have such a heavy cable (6mm)? Is it because these hobs and ovens can be wired in 'series' so to speak with a link cable from the oven to the hob?
Mark
The house is new. Behind the oven is a spur from the cooker socket to which the oven is connected and also a 13amp fused spur (which supplies the ignition to the gas hob at the moment).
From what I read here the oven could be run from the 13amp spur and I could then use the cooker spur for the hob. If that all checks out then that's fine but what I don't understand is why, if the oven can be run from a 13amp supply, does it have such a heavy cable (6mm)? Is it because these hobs and ovens can be wired in 'series' so to speak with a link cable from the oven to the hob?
Mark