Cooker circuit options

[7671]

Just finishing a rewire, customer not sure on hob and cooker at design stage so I went for 2 circuits with 6mm withe 2 32amp rcbo's. Hob and cooker 5 meters apart. Now induction hob and oven have arrived onsite and both suggest a 13amp supply is suffice. Should I downgrade the rcbo's to 16amp and hard wire into plate or exchange plate for non switched fused spur and leave rcbo as is

 

[Midwest]

At the end of the day the manufacturer's warranty is in addition to your legal rights. Your legal rights won't be affected by removing the plug. Your legal rights extend to six years as against the manufacturer's typical one year.

Again not quite true.

If a fault develops after the first six months, the burden is on you to prove that the product was faulty at the time you took ownership of it.

In practice, this may require some form of expert report, opinion or evidence of similar problems across the product range.

You have six years to take a claim to the small claims court for faulty goods in England, Wales and Northern Ireland, and five years in Scotland.

This doesn't mean that a product has to last six years - just that you have this length of time in which to make a claim if a retailer refuses to repair or replace a faulty product. (Which)

 

[7671]

The RCBOs are to protect the cable not the thing on the end of it. 32 amp RCBOs are OK for 6mm cable. No need to downgrade.

Obviously but I'm looking to protect the appliance also

 

[7671]

The RCBOs are to protect the cable not the thing on the end of it. 32 amp RCBOs are OK for 6mm cable. No need to downgrade.

Obviously but I'm looking to protect the appliance also

 

[Deleted account]

Obviously but I'm looking to protect the appliance also

The 13 amp plug will give the protection required.

Should I have said plug top?

 

[Midwest]

Obviously but I'm looking to protect the appliance also

If the cooking appliances do not come with plug tops, then the manufactures or consumers supply lead would/should be suitably rated, to carry the maximum fixed load of said appliance.

 

[naylorpd]

induction hob and oven have arrived onsite and both suggest a 13amp supply is suffice.

The oven I can believe, mine is 2.8kW so would be OK on a 16A RCBO. But a typical 4 ring induction hob is around 7.5kW so a 13A plug seems highly optimistic and needs careful checking.

 

[123]

The oven I can believe, mine is 2.8kW so would be OK on a 16A RCBO. But a typical 4 ring induction hob is around 7.5kW so a 13A plug seems highly optimistic and needs careful checking.

I've installed plenty of induction hobs that come fitted with a 13A plug from the manufacturers. Seems pretty commonplace with them now.

 

[GeorgeCooke]

The 13 amp plug will give the protection required.

The plug fuse is also to protect the cable not the appliance on the end of it.

Think, what happens in most other countries where plugs don't have fuses.

 

[dmxtothemax]

Any modification to the original design " can " void warrantty,
that includes chopping off plugs.
Check with any lawyer they will confirm it.
Remember the law has nothing to do with common sense.
it is as it is !

 

[Midwest]

Any modification to the original design " can " void warrantty,
that includes chopping off plugs.
Check with any lawyer they will confirm it.
Remember the law has nothing to do with common sense.
it is as it is !

Might be in Australia, but not so here in the UK.

 

[telectrix]

If the cooking appliances do not come with plug tops, then the manufactures or consumers supply lead would/should be suitably rated, to carry the maximum fixed load of said appliance.

if they don't come with plug tops, then you'll get a nasty belt off the exposed live parts in the plug.

 

[Midwest]

Ohh stop it, that's another rib gone

 

[MDJ]

Fair play this thread is hilarious, I can't remember the last time I gave 3 funnys in one thread, keep up the good work pmsl, oh by the way Bruce, it is different up here in the modern world than down under

 

[johnduffell]

32A RCBO, 6mm cable, single socket or preferably FCU with 13A fuse no problem at all?
In fact with that load a 1.5mm cable would be ample, as long as adiabatic checks out on the prospective short circuit current.