cooking

  1. Simplyclean

    Rangemaster cooking tripping breaker

    I'm not an electrician. I clean cookers and today arrived to a rangemaster range cooker. Got started, and as part of my routine, I turn on ovens to get heat to each compartment. I was cleaning ceramic hob when power tripped. No big deal I thought, usually a bulb or faulty element. I turned off...
  2. T

    Electrically operated cooking gas valve?

    Hi, We are designing and building cooking gas bottles with electronics controlled valves. These are for kids camping chalets. Its purely a safety feature because its kids. As you can tell, there is no big market for this product, its just to get these kids out camping. System description: So...
  3. M

    Dumping PV into PTC heating elements

    Thinking of a simple way of cooking direct with PV in the summer - ie, DC, no batteries or inverters. This concept seems simple and scalable. Envisioning something pretty scaled up - using around 3kW of PV. Considering using PTC elements. Here is a catalogue with some basic information on...
  4. littlespark

    Diversity on cooking equipment

    Evening, all. I've got a kitchen coming up that might lead to more work with a local joiner... first job with him and I want to appear on the ball. Current set up is 32A MCB on RCD side of a split board, 6.0mm serving a regular cooker switch with only an electric oven coming off it. Hob is...
  5. Wilko

    Cooking Cable in the Kitchen

    Hi - working on a new kitchen today and while stripping out some cable I noticed a damaged section, pic below. I had a good look about and no external heat sources nearby, so I can’t blame the central heating pipes. The conductors’ insulation doesn’t seem to be heat damaged, maybe it’s tougher...
  6. N

    Please help smart people! Battery and cooking simple question...

    Hi there Thanks for taking the time to read. I am hoping that this will be a very easy question for knowledgeable guys and girls like yourselves. My question is short and sweet; Could I run an electrical hot plate off of a large battery source? I have included links at the bottom giving...
  7. Soulsurfer

    Multiple cooking appliances.

    Hi all, Just looking into a kitchen refit where the customer has gone a bit excitable with the cooking side of things ! Have done lots of installs with two appliances on the one circuit but anyone know of any issue with feeding three rather than run a new circuit for say the new hob alone ...
  8. T

    Cooking appliances. Diversity versus practice

    Hi, I have a customer who has bought a 7Kw hob to compliment a 4.8Kw double oven. He didn't realise the extra power consumption would put additional loading on the existing 6mm cable. My initial response was to tell him that an additional circuit was required and due to locations of consumer...
  9. T

    3 phase Cooking Appliance

    Just been asked to quote for running new supply & connecting a 3 phase cooking appliance in a small bakers. Don't really do much with 3 Phase so just a quick question. DB has 3 phase 3 pole breaker spare and the run is around 40-45 meters away from the DB Done a quick calc and the SWA needs to...
  10. jonpatterns

    Crimping electrical joints in cooking applicances

    Hi all I have recently been repairing a crepe cooker and a hotplate where the thermal fuse has gone. My problem is how best to make the joints between the stranded wire and the solid strand legs of the replacement thermal fuse. The original thermal fuse was connected via a kind of crimp...
  11. B

    kitchen cooking appliances cable size

    Hi just about to have a oven 3.6kw,combi microwave 3.6kw,hob 6.6kw fitted,the electrician is splitting the original 6mm cable to seperate isolation points for these appliances,my doubt is ,is this cable big enough electrician assures me if the diversty is taken into consideration the cable is...
  12. D

    Ouch whats cooking

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