Socket behind oven

[JohnD]

you're not making this any easier...

 

[littlemiss2011]

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Sorry not a good pic but best I can get.

Socket on the left is what is being used for the oven, the one on the right is the one I would like to use for the dishwasher.

 

[JohnD]

have 2x 3pin sockets situated behind my oven.

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Socket on the left

you lied about the 3 pin holes.

It is not a socket

It is a cooker connector

All bets are off.

 

[littlemiss2011]

Ok... that is the socket the electrician changed.

Can I use the other though?

 

[JohnD]

have another look at the "socket" on the left and tell me how many of the 3-pin holes you can see.

I've already counted.

Don't include the screw holes.

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[xr4x4]

You know what they say about a picture.

Find the trip switch in your fuse box that turns off the oven/cooker (whatever) and see if it turns off that socket as well.

If it doesnt, switch off the sockets trips in the use box until you find the one that does.

Post back.

 

[littlemiss2011]

Im pretty sure it started that way

Anyway does this make a difference to being able to use the other one as 'normal'?

 

[JohnD]

It's not an oven it's a cooker!

 

[xr4x4]

You know what they say about a picture.

Find the trip switch in your fuse box that turns off the oven/cooker (whatever) and see if it turns off that socket as well.

If it doesnt, switch off the sockets trips in the use box until you find the one that does.

Post back.

 

[littlemiss2011]

The switch turns off when I trip the switch for the kitchen switches

 

[JohnD]

when you say "the switch turns off" do you mean "the socket" or do you mean "the cooker outlet"?

 

[littlemiss2011]

The light on the switch for the socket goes off when I switch off the switch on the fuse box that is for all the kitchen switches.

If I turn off the switch on the fuse box for the cooker, only the cooker switches off.

 

[xr4x4]

what about the single socket?

also, if that cooker is connected to the socket curcuit, that doesnt sound right to me.

 

[littlemiss2011]

Sorry.. as usual I wasn't very clear!

The oven only turns off when I turn off the cooker switch on the fuse box. It stays on when I switch the one for the switches off.

The single socket goes off with all the other sockets when turned off at the fuse box but stays on when I turn the cooker one off.

Hope that makes sense!

 

[JohnD]

you can use the socket for your dishwasher then.


but please print off this thread and read through it to see if you think it makes sense.