Ovens and hobs - why no tech specs provided?!

[J&M Electrical]

Similar situation when we did our kitchen at home. 900mm Induction Hob and double oven. I ran a 10mm protected by a 40A MCB for the Hob and 6mm protected by a 32A MCB for the oven just to be safe. And if you have never had an Induction Hob before...they are bloody brilliant.

 

[J&M Electrical]

an induction hob with 2zones on boost will draw 36-40A.thats everything from baumatic to gaggenau that I've fitted and everything inbetween.ive had 5zone Miele ceramic Hobs rated t 8.5kw that I couldn't get above 20A with all rings on full blast.

Is this because Induction Hobs use magnetic fields or something and dont actually 'Heat' up whereas standard Hobs use Heat to Heat the pans?

 

[Marvo]

I looked at an induction hob but I haven't got the heart to replace all my copper pots and pans

 

[Dcf]

Conventional and ceramic Hobs click on and off with the stats and the induction Hobs reduce the load to the zones the further you turn them down(i think!)whack a zone on boost and the electro mag bit revs it's nuts off exciting all they electrons turn it down to 5 or 6 and it just simmers away

 

[DNS1]

Does anyone mind taking a quick look at my maths (previous page).

Going to run an independent feed for the hob anyway, just want to see if I'm right with the diversity.

 

[Amp David]

And the phone call Christmas day...

"Hi you fitted my oven and hob back in March, I'm in the middle of cooking my Christmas dinner and they've both stopped working!! You need to come and fix it for me!! Please?"

I wonder how many of us have had this Christmas day phone call when designing cooker circuits using diversity?

Its not just Christmas day that cookers are fired up to the hilt, i bet there's plenty of families who have a full monty Sunday dinner almost every week.

 

[Engineer54]

Similar situation when we did our kitchen at home. 900mm Induction Hob and double oven. I ran a 10mm protected by a 40A MCB for the Hob and 6mm protected by a 32A MCB for the oven just to be safe. And if you have never had an Induction Hob before...they are bloody brilliant.

We have a 7.6KW induction hob and a standard single multi element oven. Both run originally off 6mm singles on a 30A type 2 MCB (Now a 32A type B RCBO) Never had a single problem with this set-up in the 2 years or so the induction hob has been installed... So why you think you need a 10mm and 6mm cable supply to your set up is beyond me!!! lol!!