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Old 22-06-2004, 16:29   #10
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Re: Any electrician out there ?
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Originally Posted by abailey152
A cooker outlet usually consists of a 30 amp double-pole switch at high level and a connection unit lower down. Some cooker switch units have a socket outlet on them also (a socket outlet and a large switch marker Cooker). Have you got anything that resembles this? Or have you got a normal socket outlet?

Whether this is the JB or not depends how it was done. Somewhere there will be a joint where the 6.0mm2 cable is joined to a 2.5mm2 cable. It may well be a proper Joint Box.


Your cooker circuit is protected with a 30 amp fuse of circuit breaker. This is too large for a 2.5mm2 cable, so if you are running a standard socket outlet off this circuit, and assuming that the joint is okay (i.e. done in a proper safe manner), then the fuse or circuit breaker for this circuit needs reducing to 15 amp (16 amp for an MCB)


Thanks again
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I really apprecaite the advice...............want has happen is the house has had various electrical tests over the past 5 years becuase it is a rental house it has always passed but now it has failed because of the items. So do I presume at something someone had changed things for it to now fail.

regards
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