coire
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Cooker installationI 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
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Smooth Hound
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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
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coire
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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
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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
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 youve done it then ?
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coire
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| Smooth Hound wrote: | | youve done it then ? |
Er, no... I guess it's just a case of stripping the wires and joining to the appropriate connection, but I'm a little freaked by the bare wire....
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Smooth Hound
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no screws ,  do the wires just clip in , what sized wire as in mm diameter did you buy
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Townie
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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.
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Smooth Hound
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good point, i agree with that, if your not sure
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coire
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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.
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coire
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Thanks for your posts, Townie and SH. In the end I got an electrician to do it - although it seemed obvious where all the wires should go, how to fix those thick stiff bundles to the connections on the cooker wasn't!
Am relieved to be eating something other than Bl**dy pasta again!!
Cheese on toast! Yeahhhh!!!
Cheers,
Jane
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Townie
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Hi Jane...
Glad you got an electrician in the end, not doubting your ability to wire things, electricity is something that frightens me.
If I get my OH to put a plug on something, i'll even make him plug it in first just to make sure it doenst go bang 
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coire
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| Townie wrote: |
If I get my OH to put a plug on something, i'll even make him plug it in first just to make sure it doenst go bang |
Yep, generally more expendable....... 
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Smooth Hound
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 typical glad youve got it sorted 
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