Cooker Cable Calc question

[7029 dave]

As ^^^^ lol

 

[Diddy]

It is a rangemaster lads...you don't buy these out of B & Q lol. These range cookers can be quite power hungry.
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[VoltzElectrical]

We had a Falcon range cooker with induction. Installed on a 10mm2 cable, 40amp breaker. Never had a problem. The stated loads are for everything on FULL, all rings, oven, grill etc.

In reality though, that would never happen. It would be interesting to put everything on, say, half power and clamp the live at the board.

 

[davesparks]

We had a Falcon range cooker with induction. Installed on a 10mm2 cable, 40amp breaker. Never had a problem. The stated loads are for everything on FULL, all rings, oven, grill etc.

In reality though, that would never happen. It would be interesting to put everything on, say, half power and clamp the live at the board.

Far better to put a data logging ammeter on it than a clamp meter. The clamp meter will only give you a snapshot at a particular instant in time.

You need to look at the power consumption over time with any load which is not constant.


For reference I did this on a fish and chip van at a festival which claimed to have a load of 16KW almost entirely made up of cooking equipment.
The highest peak was around the 10KW mark early on with it sitting steady between 6 and 7 KW after the first half hour.

So if that's multiple cooking appliances in constant use for 8+ hours in a commercial application, what on earth makes you think a domestic cooker would take more?