I've just received a single oven rated at 2.5kw. According to the manual, it needs to be wired to the CCU using 2.5mm cable, and protected by a 20a fuse (that's under the section for UK, for Europe it states 16a). The appliance has no flex pre-wired.
Before I got it, I was planning on placing an FCU-fed socket behind the oven and using heat resistant flex + plug for the oven.
The hob I'm looking at is 5.9kw, I was planning on putting that on the existing CCU nearby which is currently a 6mm radial with a 40a MCB on it (the old 10kw double-oven + hob is on there at the moment), and also replace the MCB with a 32.
Are we better off getting the oven wired to the hob with 2.5 and keep the 40a MCB, or connect the oven to the ring via a socket or flex outlet fed by 13a FCU and downrate the MCB to 32a for the hob itself?
Seems easier and more logical to go with the oven chained to the hob route... ?
Before I got it, I was planning on placing an FCU-fed socket behind the oven and using heat resistant flex + plug for the oven.
The hob I'm looking at is 5.9kw, I was planning on putting that on the existing CCU nearby which is currently a 6mm radial with a 40a MCB on it (the old 10kw double-oven + hob is on there at the moment), and also replace the MCB with a 32.
Are we better off getting the oven wired to the hob with 2.5 and keep the 40a MCB, or connect the oven to the ring via a socket or flex outlet fed by 13a FCU and downrate the MCB to 32a for the hob itself?
Seems easier and more logical to go with the oven chained to the hob route... ?