3.6kw oven on a 13amp plug top.

[markthespark]

Hello i have been asked to install an oven that is 3.6kw, i am wondering whether this would be fine plugged into a socket behind the existing oven taking into account diversity.

or whether i need to put it on its own radial supply.

Is there anyway of fusing a ring main down to 16amps?

Thanks.

 

[Guest77]

is 8 amps big connected to a 13 amp plug top?

 

[Pete999]

Not if it's a big plugtop

 

[LeeH]

Like this?

---- job chasing that socket in though....

 

[Pete999]

Like this?

---- job chasing that socket in though....

That will do

 

[Prat P]

is 8 amps big connected to a 13 amp plug top?

If the plug has got a 3 Amp fuse in it,then yes ,8 Amps is big.
I think you are avoiding the not insignificant point that it is not good practice to try to protect equipment with a potential operating current of 14 Amps on a 13 Amp plug. No amount of lateral thinking or outright belligerence will change the fact. 14 Amps with 13 Amp protection = No.

 

[Guest77]

If the plug has got a 3 Amp fuse in it,then yes ,8 Amps is big.
I think you are avoiding the not insignificant point that it is not good practice to try to protect equipment with a potential operating current of 14 Amps on a 13 Amp plug. No amount of lateral thinking or outright belligerence will change the fact. 14 Amps with 13 Amp protection = No.

Who said anything about a 3 amp fuse? and yes a 3.6kw oven should not be connected to a plug top, I would never do so in anyones home as no spark would either, hence the humour in the thread, cheer up lol

 

[Richo77]

Don't some 2KW free standing heaters come fitted with a 13A plug??

 

[Prat P]

Who said anything about a 3 amp fuse? and yes a 3.6kw oven should not be connected to a plug top, I would never do so in anyones home as no spark would either, hence the humour in the thread, cheer up lol

Well initially I was referring to a potential 14 Amps and you randomly posed a question regarding 8 Amps lol.
now I just did the same back to you ..you turned my 14 Amps into 8 and so I turn your 13 Amps into 3...im such a rascal

 

[Guest77]

Don't some 2KW free standing heaters come fitted with a 13A plug??

The vast majority do, apparently they have 10 amp fuses in them :biggrin:

 

[Guest77]

Well initially I was referring to a potential 14 Amps and you randomly posed a question regarding 8 Amps lol.
now I just did the same back to you

Fair enough

 

[Geordie Spark]

Who said anything about a 3 amp fuse? and yes a 3.6kw oven should not be connected to a plug top, I would never do so in anyones home as no spark would either, hence the humour in the thread, cheer up lol

Hi Mark!! :teeth_smile:

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Prat P

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So, the lad's new here AND he's from Tony's neck of the woods!

Give the poor sod a break man!!

 

[nickblake]

3KW heaters come with a plug top on them !!, its what the manufacturers instructions say and also the type of oven if the oven is a combined oven with a grill built into the oven its self then the total load could be 3.6kw that is total you may well have a 2kw oven and a 1.6kw grill and you cant use them both together, it all depends on the oven , and some are supplied with a plug, so if its a separate grill and oven and they can both be used together then yes its a separate circuit and 16 amp mcb to a double pole switch to oven

 

[Prat P]

3KW heaters come with a plug top on them !!, its what the manufacturers instructions say and also the type of oven if the oven is a combined oven with a grill built into the oven its self then the total load could be 3.6kw that is total you may well have a 2kw oven and a 1.6kw grill and you cant use them both together, it all depends on the oven , and some are supplied with a plug, so if its a separate grill and oven and they can both be used together then yes its a separate circuit and 16 amp mcb to a double pole switch to oven

Well I think I would feel silly telling someone after I just fitted their shiny new oven ' now just remember you can use the grill or the oven,not both at the same time'...then I would jump on my horse and ride off into the distance

 

[ImpededLoop]

Well I think I would feel silly telling someone after I just fitted their shiny new oven ' now just remember you can use the grill or the oven,not both at the same time'...then I would jump on my horse and ride off into the distance

I think Nick was suggesting that on some ovens you can only use one or the other, so the load would stay under 3kW.

 

[Geordie Spark]

Well I think I would feel silly telling someone after I just fitted their shiny new oven ' now just remember you can use the grill or the oven,not both at the same time'...then I would jump on my horse and ride off into the distance

I have an oven with a grill.

The grill is inside the oven.

Tidyboiler has never been able to grill my breakfast kippers at the same time as I'm roasting the pig for my dinner but last time she did grill my kippers the dozy bint burned them!!

It is either one or the other.