Heat resisting flex for cooker

[Knobhead]

What was he doing for it to short across his arm, that is the question?

 

[GLENNSPARK]

My boss does ripouts and installs/repair work for a company who contract him on a rapid response basis. On a ripout he got a load of butyl cable which he has been using for cooker hookups...ideal that stuff.........

 

[Silly Sausage]

Non, I’ve just fitted my new cooker, it’s GAS!

What about the cable/flex to power the lights/ignition?

 

[GLENNSPARK]

What about the cable/flex to power the lights/ignition?

As i posted earlier...wouldn`t 90* thermosetting do it?.........

 

[Silly Sausage]

Only joking Glenn, next they'll be saying a cooker will have to installed within a heat resistant cupboard! Utter nonsense.
I think it's a case of a bored 'designer tech' over specifying parts.

 

[GLENNSPARK]

Only joking Glenn, next they'll be saying a cooker will have to installed within a heat resistant cupboard! Utter nonsense.
I think it's a case of a bored 'designer tech' over specifying parts.

No probs Archy mate......it is getting a bit silly with health n safety....as long as the cable is able to carry the current demand and is made off right and the run is appropriate.....i wouldn`t mind betting that the fault on cooker mentioned earlier on here was connected by diy charlie...i.e. wrong........and the circuit had no rcd additional protection..........

 

[Engineer54]

Guys becareful a tenant got a serve shock were we live his arm looked bad i wished i took a picture some one had installed a cooker and it shorted out across this guys arm not nice do not use TE for the final connection link use any thing but and check to make sure its RCD and its done all correctly some ones in trouble but dont let it be you..:cuss:

Are you being serious here?? Look, ....T&E has been used for the final conections to cookers since before i even started in this industry!! I've never seen, or come to that, ever heard of T&E being damaged by heat from the connected oven or hob!!
Now all of a sudden, it's not suitable and needs to be 6mm butyl flexible cable, that no-body seems to stock. .....Maybe , because no-body buys the stuff, as they are all still using the T&E!!!!

 

[GLENNSPARK]

Like i have said earlier my boss uses butyl but only because he rescued it from a ripout....before he got that stuff it was T&E....with no probs and no faults developing....cooker terminations are usually at the bottom of the appliance anyway and as heat rises..............

 

[Silly Sausage]

As JUD said earlier....http://www.electriciansforums.net/e...92-heat-resisting-flex-cooker.html#post359370

 

[Knobhead]

What about the cable/flex to power the lights/ignition?

OH thats wired in to the 32A break out box :disguise:

 

[GLENNSPARK]

The thing is though butyl is expensive so how many sparkys will want to pass that on to the customer who wont know or give a damn about the virtues of different types of cable/s?

 

[rsmck]

Went to wire up a new range cooker today and found that the manufacturers instructions call for a H05v2v2-f 6mm (PVC/PVC 90degree heat resisting) flexible cable.

Fine if that is what the manufacturer recomends, but where can you buy this in cut lenghts??.

Could you use H07RNF (A rubber flex with the same heat resistance) as this is readily available (and what I used last to connect my last cooker as that was what that manufacturer recommended) ?

 

[PC Electrics]

I use H07RN-F for wiring up cookers and ovens. I keep it in various csa's, all of which are rreadily available by the metre from Edmundsons (I tend to get 15m at a time). If you're really desperate Citys can get it by the metre too.

H07RN-F is also useful for a host of other situations too - recently did an external shower run in it using swa cleats to attach it to the wall.
Also great for running across catenary wires.

Always use end terminals on it though (cord end, ring, spade etc according to application)

 

[rsmck]

Another source for H07RNF is any supplier to the entertainment industry - it's the standard cable referred to as "TRS" used for mains extensions in stage lighting applications, they'll all sell it by the metre and shift a lot more of it than most local electrical wholesalers so may provide more competitive pricing.

 

[GLENNSPARK]

I use H07RN-F for wiring up cookers and ovens. I keep it in various csa's, all of which are rreadily available by the metre from Edmundsons (I tend to get 15m at a time). If you're really desperate Citys can get it by the metre too.

H07RN-F is also useful for a host of other situations too - recently did an external shower run in it using swa cleats to attach it to the wall.
Also great for running across catenary wires.

Always use end terminals on it though (cord end, ring, spade etc according to application)

You can also just use a black (tough) cable for exterior/catenary runs. We dont use pvc as it is effected by UV light (although i have seen it used outside with no protection on numerous occasions).....