First Annual "designed By A Muppet" Award Nominations..the "izals"

[chris_k]

Very expensive new Rangemaster cooker. No markings on terminals. Terminals mounted on the thinnest flexible metal plate available. No destructions included. Red, black, green/yellow cables at terminals.

Which way would you wire it?

 

[Sidewinder]

Check MI's?

 

[chris_k]

Thats cheating. As I said no destructions included.

 

[Sidewinder]

Well get them from the manufacturer then.

 

[chris_k]

But the cooker needs to be used now. The internets down and the phones broke. How would you wire it.

 

[Sidewinder]

I wouldn't, your internet is NOT down as you are posting here.

 

[kerching]

Well, as my Rangemaster Cooker has been working for years i would not be too concerned.

If required, and i could be bothered, i would walk over to the drawer in the West wing Drawing Room and consult the book that came with my cooker....but I can't, so I won't

Just not understanding most things in general

 

[chris_k]

Sidewinders not playing.

Anyway job was last week. Middle of knowhere, no service, no tinternet, no destructions. Needed to be used asap.

One would think red line and black neutral?

 

[ProDave]

This is too obvious.

There's a RED, a BLACK and a GREEN/YELLOW

If I state the obvious about how I would wire it, I would be wrong. There's clearly more to it otherwise you would not have set the puzzle.

 

[kme]

Well - isn`t it obvious?

It wants an earth ( GY) ; an old L1 ( red), and a newer L2 ( black).

erm - good luck finding a cable with THAT configuration in it!!!!! :slap

What does the rating plate say?

 

[Blue Duck]

Open it up and see where the wires go :innocent

 

[Blue Duck]

Just about any intercom system that's "cheap" they arent really cheap but always made of nasty plastic.

A few wires, circuit board and a tranformer can't really cost that much surely!

Even worse when they're modified and the carpenters been at them

 

[Evans Electric]

First law of the universe  .... All intercoms MUST be made in Italy.

 

[Andy™]

but they speak funny

 

[Blue Duck]

but they speak funny

So do the people on the other end of an Italian made intercom!

:C

 

[chris_k]

This is too obvious.

There's a RED, a BLACK and a GREEN/YELLOW

If I state the obvious about how I would wire it, I would be wrong. There's clearly more to it otherwise you would not have set the puzzle.

Well. the whole story is i went to install said cooker. I just needed to see what cable they spec for the final connection but there was no install manual. I managed to eventually contact get the shop to see if they had a copy to have a look. There was no specific cable stated. Twin & earth will do!  The terminals are only numbered, 1,2,3 have black cable , 4,5,6 have red.  Turns out 1,2,3 are live, 4,5,6 are neutral.

 

[Andy™]

or the reds could be live & blacks neutral, but they were labelled by the same person in Deke's thread with the wrong labels...

 

[chris_k]

They were only labeled 1,2,3,4,5,6. Its the shop who told me the wiring configuration. They were right, i checked a wiring diagram online when i got home.