very confused about this

[shirine]

hi .. I ordered a NW601FB (SINGLE ELECTRIC FITTED OVEN) from argos a couple of weeks ago and when they came to install it they said they couldn't ........because the oven only had a 13 amp fuse and apparently the actual circuit was 32 amp..they pointed out my old oven broke because that too was only a 13 amp fused one and should not have been connected to the 32 amp circuit....so I had to send the oven back and now am loss what to do........it seemed odd that it took over a year for the old oven to stop working and when I pointed that out to the argos installer, he said these things happen slowly and it would be totally against regulation to put the new oven in with this high amp circuit.........does anyone know what he is talking about because I certainly don't...thanks

 

[Octopus]

I think you need to get a spark to fit a 13A fused output for your cooker!

 

[Engineer54]

I take it the hob is Gas and not electric?? If all you were connecting up to the existing cooker circuit, was this new oven, you could have just changed the circuit breaker in the main consumer unit to a 16A breaker.

BTW the Argos installer was talking total utter rot, the 13A fuse is there to protect the cable NOT the Oven. Ovens are classed as a fixed load, as such they are unlikely to overload, so the existing 32A breaker would theoretically still have protected the circuit against short circuit conditions...