My mother-in-law is changing from a gas oven to an electric one.

Now somebody has told her that she can run it off an ordinary plug socket.

I thought you needed heavy duty cable straight to the fuse box and a big fuse?

Any experts?

Cheers

Chris

Yes I think you do need heavy duty cable running to the fusebox with a correct fuse. Also I believe that you must install a wallmounted cooker on/off switch with a fuse of its own. I'm no expert, but when I mad a vacuum form machine in the garage, that is what I did and it worked!

Just looked,

our cooker point is on its own 40A circuit breaker in the main box

The only cookers that can be plugged in a 13A socket are those baby belling type things

Even then the cable gets hot

Cooker boxes are also wired in 6mm cable while 13amp sockets are in 2.5mm

Since the original poster said his oven was 2kW, it'll be absolutely fine. The reason electric cookers need uprated wiring/fuses is that with an oven, grill, and 4 hobs all going at once you're drawing a lot more current than just a single oven.

Edit: I was actually replying to the other oven thread where the poster said he had a 2kW oven. In this case you need to check the wattage.

Cheers,
Matt.


[Edited on 7/12/05 by matt_claydon]

Yep, its ok as Matt says, as long as it's ONLY an oven/grill, not a hob. be sure to check the KW rating on the oven. 3KW is approx 13amps.

Be also aware though of all the other appliances used in the kitchen (and possibly other areas of the house) that are on the same circuit. ~ don't want to put too much load on. Apart from nuisance tripping of MCB's which could easily happen, it will be loading up the circuit and may be too much. be careful.

we bought a new electric oven/grill about 6 months ago and it came with a 13 amp sealed plug already fitted.

plugged it into a normal socket and it works fine

Antony

When you have a seperate hob and oven the oven just runs 13A and the hob needs the heavy cable. If it's a hob/oven combined then a 13A socket won't cut it.

most modern electric fan ovens just run off a normal plug.........

Chris, WTF was going on on the M1, A1 & M18 today ???