Dencon 45A Consumer Unit Fuse BS1361 Pack of 2

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Replacing and connecting up an electric cooker is a fairly simple job as long as everything is in place to allow for a straight swap. If, however, there is any doubt, you should always get a professional electrician in to do the work for you. If you have read through the above in detail you should now be well aware of the rules of fitting an electric cooker and whether you are allowed to do this. Obtain the tools you will need - typically fuse wire, wire cutters, a screwdriver and a torch so you can see what you are doing Freestanding cookers are normally around the standard width of 600mm and are installed in a standard unit-width gap between other kitchen cupboards or at the end of a run. Regardless of the type of oven you are dealing with the actual process and principles involved in fitting and connecting up an electric cooker should be pretty much the same for each different type. What if I Have a Gas Oven or Hob, Do I Still Need an Electric Supply?

When a fuse blows, the electrical supply to a particular circuit is immediately cut off. This lowers the risk of fire and prevents damage to the wiring. The blown fuse can safely be replaced without the risk of electrocution. Are Old Fuse Boxes Illegal? We measured up the old cookers slope, built in to compensate for this and other potential items and how this compared to the new cooker.Come on, do you realy want to be taking a shower protected by the most unreliable protective device there is? This securing chain is a required safety device for gas freestanding cookers to prevent it from falling forwards and ripping the gas pipe off of the wall causing a gas leak, but can occasionally also be fitted to electric freestanding cookers. Built-in Electric Cookers

In this case it was behind a metal plate. We removed the screw holding the plate in place to reveal the connection terminal behind it. If you’re working with a freestanding cooker, then this can in most cases simply be gently pulled forwards until it is free of the recess it’s sitting in. By you own admission it's a 60A unit, leaving only 15A for the rest of the house!!!! Do you even have RCD protection on any circuits? Fortunately, the new cooker was slightly shorter in terms of depth, which meant that the slope was pushed forwards that bit more resulting in plenty of room. Resettable SMD fuses, by contrast, can be used multiple times. They function in a similar way to resettable thermal fuses and are available in multiple sizes and capacities. Striker FusesTo get the new cooker connected up if you are dealing cables still on the old wire colour scheme, it’s just a case of matching each cable to the correct terminal. The cable used is 6mm t&E so with just this oven on there appears no danger of overloading happining. SO from this point of view I am assuming it is safe. An electric cooker will need to use the correct sized electrical cable and fuse or MCB for the amount of power it will draw and this depends on its wattage. note that some brnads don't make 45A breakers so you may need to spec your cable for being on a 50A one if 40A is insuffican't for your shower

Loosen the live, neutral and earth terminals and remove the electrical supply cable Step 5 – Have a Good Clean up Cooker control units are also generally fitted with neon lights to signify that the unit and/or switch is turned on or off and to confirm if there is current reaching the connected appliance. Switch fuse units distribute current while shielding cables and devices from the damage that would be caused by power fluctuations along a particular electrical circuit. Switch fuse units are used in industrial and commercial buildings as well as domestic properties.A Type C fuse is actually a type of miniature circuit breaker (MCB). MCBs are a type of circuit breaker used with lower-powered circuits to cut off current in the event of an overload. Type C fuses trip circuits when the current exceeds the rated one by between five and ten times - i.e. at 100-500 amps for a 20amp device. Type D Fuses if you have a modern split load cu with space on the non-rcd side and a main isolator rated at 80A or more then you can fit a rcbo on the non-rcd side as described above This means turning the power off at both the cooker control unit and also isolating the circuit directly in the consumer unit or fuse box e.g. turning off the MCB or pulling out the fuse. As we have stated a fair few times already, but needs to be said again – before we do anything at all, turn off the power! Once in place, ensure the sides of the cooker are flush with the edge of the carcass so that it can be screwed in place.

The definition of a D-type fuse is a miniature circuit breaker that trips when the current exceeds the rated level by between ten and 20 times. Therefore, a 16 amp Type D breaker will trip if the current reaches between 160 and 320 amps. Type F Fuses An electrical fuse is a safety device that cuts-off the flow of electrical current in a circuit when it is extremely high. Most of our electrical appliances have a fuse for safety purposes. When the electrical current in a circuit is exceedingly high, the fuse blows off to cut the wire inside it to stop the flow of electricity and protect your appliance. The amount of electrical current that can be handled by the fuse is based on fuse rating. When the current exceeds the rating, the fuse blows. Don’t pull it all the way out as yet as they can be quite heavy (40kgs or more). Get some help to pull the old electric cooker all the way out, but just before it comes out, drop it down so that the front bottom edge rests on the floor.

What Type of Switch, Cable and Fuse/MCB is Needed for a Cooker?

In this case as there was a gas hob installed above the old cooker, the gas feed pipe for the hob needed to be considered in terms of the new cooker. Now that we know that the new cooker will fit into the unit recess as it should do, before we can actually fit it in place, the final job is to connect the electrical supply cable to the terminal on the rear of the new cooker. The cooker must be connected to a cooker control unit (as seen in the image below). It must be connected via the correct size cable that in turn, is connected to the correct size fuse or MCB in your consumer unit or fuse box.