Firstlty, may i assure you i have genuinely spent hours over the last 2-3 days searching this site, and google etc to answer my question - i post advice (in my subject area) on another forum and it annoys me when people are too lazy too look - i have seen some similar advice but nothing which matches. Because of this i am hoping someone in the future will benefit from the replies here for their potential searches.
I am helping my mum with some updates to her house and am updating the kitchen units. I am replacing an old stand alone cooker for a built in single oven and seperate hob (yes i know there are lots of matches on this site for this, please bear with me).
The oven says it should be hardwired so i am planning a 13A switched FCU (the cooker is 2.4kW which i make as just over 10A) for that. I was going to change a double socket for a dual box (advice on another post here!!) to fit an FCU and single socket however could i simply fit a new FCU off the CCU?
The hob is 6.5kw which i make just over 28A (although with diversity applied considering the chances of having all 4 rings on max at the same time, this will mostly be less). I was intending to connect this to the old CCU but this is 45A which seems to much.
The fusebox is the old type with push in slots/plugs containing fusewire therefore i think she may have to have this replaced anyway, which may solve the problem as the dedicated cooker circuit can be adjusted here but in the mean time or if not, is there a way i can safely connect it?
As far as i'm aware there aren't 30A/32A FCUs so is there a way i can protect this?
Thank you in advance for the help (and for the other help i have reguarly received on here in the past - particuarly the advice on how to sort out the wires when i removed a rose to fit a new modern light bar and didn't mark the wires leading to trips- DOH! - one quick search on here and a few mins with a multimeter later and i was sorted )
I am helping my mum with some updates to her house and am updating the kitchen units. I am replacing an old stand alone cooker for a built in single oven and seperate hob (yes i know there are lots of matches on this site for this, please bear with me).
The oven says it should be hardwired so i am planning a 13A switched FCU (the cooker is 2.4kW which i make as just over 10A) for that. I was going to change a double socket for a dual box (advice on another post here!!) to fit an FCU and single socket however could i simply fit a new FCU off the CCU?
The hob is 6.5kw which i make just over 28A (although with diversity applied considering the chances of having all 4 rings on max at the same time, this will mostly be less). I was intending to connect this to the old CCU but this is 45A which seems to much.
The fusebox is the old type with push in slots/plugs containing fusewire therefore i think she may have to have this replaced anyway, which may solve the problem as the dedicated cooker circuit can be adjusted here but in the mean time or if not, is there a way i can safely connect it?
As far as i'm aware there aren't 30A/32A FCUs so is there a way i can protect this?
Thank you in advance for the help (and for the other help i have reguarly received on here in the past - particuarly the advice on how to sort out the wires when i removed a rose to fit a new modern light bar and didn't mark the wires leading to trips- DOH! - one quick search on here and a few mins with a multimeter later and i was sorted )