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coire · Posted: Fri Aug 14, 2009 7:29 am Post subject: Cooker installation

I am a bit embarrassed to be posting here - an electric cooker isn't a terribly exciting gadget, and I hate being the helpless girly, but... I finally decided that life using a two ring hob to cater for three kids was getting too complicated after my old cooker died, so I got a new one. It arrived yesterday. Now I hadn't expected the delivery guys to install it, but to my horror it didn't even have a cable (one of the guys muttered something about one being inside, but there wasn't). As Strachans is no longer here I have to make a trip to Banchory to look for one. However I was only expecting to deal with one end of a wire... Now I have two ends to deal with, and no instructions apart from getting a qualified electrician to do it. I feel that this shouldn't be necessary, can someone tell me what I need to do? (I can manage plug wiring 101).
Cheers,
Jane

Smooth Hound · Posted: Fri Aug 14, 2009 7:50 am Post subject:

first of all look for where the wire should go into the back of the cooker, there should be a small metal plate screwwed on somewhere, underneath that will be the places for attaching the wire, there will be a live + a negative _

and an earth E

let us know when you have found that

coire · Posted: Fri Aug 14, 2009 6:02 pm Post subject:

Hi SH,

Yup, found that, and a diagram. Here are pictures, as well as one of the innards behind the panel in the wall (yes, cooker switch off and fuse removed from the fuse box).
The cable I bought has live and neutral wires with a bare copper wire between them.....

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coire · Posted: Fri Aug 14, 2009 6:08 pm Post subject:

Oh - pic didn't seem to upload properly, although clicking on the thumbnail brings up the picture for me. Here are the other two

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Smooth Hound · Posted: Fri Aug 14, 2009 6:35 pm Post subject:

youve done it then ?

coire · Posted: Fri Aug 14, 2009 7:20 pm Post subject:

Smooth Hound · Posted: Fri Aug 14, 2009 7:23 pm Post subject:

no screws ,

do the wires just clip in ,

what sized wire as in mm diameter did you buy

Townie · Moderator Joined: 04 Jul 2007 Posts: 2723 Location: Fife

Be very careful, my other half is an electrician and has advised you enlist the help of a qualified electrician to help you to connect your cooker.

If you do it yourself and have any problems with the cooker as a result of you wiring it, you may have problems with the cooker warranty.

Had we lived closer i'd have sent him round to do it for you.

Smooth Hound · Posted: Fri Aug 14, 2009 9:09 pm Post subject:

good point, i agree with that, if your not sure

coire · Posted: Sat Aug 15, 2009 9:19 am Post subject:

Yes, there are screws for the connections on the wall, they've just been removed. The cooker destructions specified a cable of 6 square mm cross sectional area, which is what I asked for.

Don't worry, I'm not into taking big risks with electricity. But while there seem to be lots of instructions on the internet about wiring up a cooker circuit for your house (which I would never dream of attempting!) I can't find anything about putting a cooker on the end of it.