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   From: dave@davenoise.co.uk   
      
   In article <9ovrt3Fj9eU1@mid.individual.net>,   
      David Looser  wrote:   
   > > Sorry - we normally call them cookers, so I missed it. A complete   
   > > electric cooker would normally have its own radial here too. But most   
   > > here would go for a gas hob and electric oven - some of which can be   
   > > run from a 13 amp socket.   
   > >   
   > I've not met an oven with a 13A plug, maybe this is a recent innovation.   
   > I have a gas (bottled, I'm off the gas main) hob and a built-in double   
   > oven which is connected via a 45A "cooker point" to a radial circuit   
   > with a 40A MCB on the other end of it. Though there is a 13A socket in   
   > the cooker point into which the microwave is plugged, so that shares the   
   > 40A with the oven.   
      
   Single ovens often come with a 13 amp plug and lead, these days. Double   
   ones not, as the two being used together would exceed 3 kW.   
      
   The 13 amp socket on the cooker point is an older idea - really from the   
   days when an extra socket in the kitchen would double the number. ;-)   
      
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