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3KW cooker on Living room ring??
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<blockquote data-quote="DaveS79" data-source="post: 509302" data-attributes="member: 28820"><p>Hi All</p><p></p><p>Turned up at job today thinking I'm swapping over a standard 13 amp cooker to hardwired type, utilizing existing cooker circuit.....simples. Arrive, and in living room is big 3KW cooker that he wants in addition to cooker already has in kitchen. Guy said can I hardwire into existing socket. Not done this before straight off ring and aware regs 'recommend no more than 2KW fixed appliances' I phoned NIC to run by them. Confirmed that regs seems to suggest it is just a recommendation. What I'm not entirely sure of is what if any potential risks are here. My understanding is as it is a fixed rated appliance it cannot overload so the 2.5mm flex comes with is not a problem although I generally upgrade these to 6mm, do I need to bother? And as the ring is so small and doesn't have many appliances/sockets I think chance of overloading the 32mcb is next to nil. The only other thing I'm not sure of is if the socket come from is near start or end of ring is there potential to overload the 2.5mm cable?</p><p></p><p>Any clarity as always appreciated.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="DaveS79, post: 509302, member: 28820"] Hi All Turned up at job today thinking I'm swapping over a standard 13 amp cooker to hardwired type, utilizing existing cooker circuit.....simples. Arrive, and in living room is big 3KW cooker that he wants in addition to cooker already has in kitchen. Guy said can I hardwire into existing socket. Not done this before straight off ring and aware regs 'recommend no more than 2KW fixed appliances' I phoned NIC to run by them. Confirmed that regs seems to suggest it is just a recommendation. What I'm not entirely sure of is what if any potential risks are here. My understanding is as it is a fixed rated appliance it cannot overload so the 2.5mm flex comes with is not a problem although I generally upgrade these to 6mm, do I need to bother? And as the ring is so small and doesn't have many appliances/sockets I think chance of overloading the 32mcb is next to nil. The only other thing I'm not sure of is if the socket come from is near start or end of ring is there potential to overload the 2.5mm cable? Any clarity as always appreciated. [/QUOTE]
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