Fitting Cooker Cable

Pick the right cable for your cooking needs.

Fitting cooker cable.

From this video you will find out about electric cooker connections and what cable use for electric cooker. Fit the cooker connection unit to the back box and ensure that the load cable is securely retained by the cable clamp. How to wire electric cooker in the uk. Each wire is color coded and plugs into a specific terminal in the outlet box.

Before re fitting the front cover of the cooker connection unit carefully remove the cable cut out so that it fits neatly around the load cable. If your cooker control unit is a more recent model it will likely have neon lights installed on it. Look for a blue neutral wire that fits into the upper right terminal. Check and ensure that the load cable is connected to the appliance.

And if run within insulation puff of smoke syndrome. So if you install a 10kw cooker on a 32a mcb it will happily sit not tripping up to 46a which is far in excess of the cable carrying capacity. Plain and simple you need a 10mm cable 6mm is not correct it may work but may also burn your house down you take the risk. If you just bought a new electric cooker you should have a cable included in the packaging.

When connecting a cooker or working on any electrical circuit the. Installing or fitting an electric cooker must be done on its own circuit. Connecting the cooker cable to the mains supply is the last part of this project. An electric cooker cannot be spurred of any other circuit and must be controlled by its own fuse at the consumer unit.

These will signify when the unit is turned on and whether any current is flowing through it.