Dencon 45A Consumer Unit Fuse BS1361 Pack of 2

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Now that the electrical supply cable is connected up correctly and we have tested that the oven turns on as it should do, it’s time to get it fixed in place. 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? If however you are dealing with wires using the new wire colour scheme, they are as follows ( more information on wire colours can be found in our project here): As with build-in cookers, build under cookers do not feature an integrated hobs. In most cases a separate gas or electric hob unit is installed above the built under oven to give the appearance that they are a single unit when in fact they are not.

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. Many modern ovens and cookers are fan assisted, meaning that they have a fan built into the rear of the oven area that can be turned on that then blows the generated hot air around the oven so that it’s evenly distributed and what ever is in the oven is in turn cooked evenly. Next, open up both the bottom and top oven (if there is one) doors and down each side you should see a screw head some where. These screws are what secures the cooker in place. Use a drill/driver or screwdriver to remove each screw.Fuse boxes have a number of alternative names, including control board panels, distribution boards, breaker panels, fuse boards, and fuse panels. Domestic fuse boxes are frequently referred to as consumer units. What is a Switch Fuse Unit? The built-in (or eye-level) electric cooker is normally fitted inside a standard kitchen unit carcass at around 720mm from floor level, hence the alternate name of an eye-level cooker. If your old faithful electric cooker has finally given up the ghost and you’re looking at replacements and the cost of not only buying a new cooker but getting it installed, you may be thinking; That’s fine, I’ll just install it myself! 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. To 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.

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 FusesAs I’m sure you have guessed, the built-in electric cooker does not feature any integrated hobs as they would be too high to use. Instead, separate gas or electric powered hobs are installed in another location in the kitchen. In this case, once fitted we found that the new cooker was 5mm taller than the old one, meaning it did not slide under the worktop.

Electric cookers draw huge amounts of current because of the heat they need to produce for cooking. Despite their everyday name, domestic fuse boxes now typically contain circuit breakers rather than fuses, and they are more formally known as consumer panels. However, if your property still contains a traditional model, here is how to go about changing the wire in a fuse if it blows and cuts the power to one of the circuits that run through the building. As a short term measure you could try the plug in type replacement MCB for the old wylex unit, I think they do a 40A. One point to note is that your electric cooker should be installed within 2 metres of the cooker control unit, however due to the obvious heat generated by the cooker, it should never be installed above it, it should be places slightly to the side. What Different Types of Electric Cooker are There?

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In the case of our supply cable, it was fairly old so was still using the old style wire colours as opposed to the new. This is fine as long as it’s been tested and confirmed to still be fit for purpose.