32A Industrial socket for cooker?

Isn't that product three phase?


Edit (sorry inbetween posts above...)
 
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So how would I terminate a larger load for a domestic 230V live supply?
Depends how high your load is but will mean Running a larger cable and a larger MCB. Also why on Earth are you wanting to plug in some kind of Mixer into a kitchen circuit
 
The kitchen isn’t far from where I want to run it and I wasn’t currently wanting to run new circuits from the fuse board as I’d have to chop through quite a bit of fairly new work to run them. Opening the kitchen door when it needs to be run seems feasible and the circuit already installed should be up to the load
 
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Hi, I have a direct wired cooker on a 40A type B MCD. Is it ok to switch out the direct wire for a 32A 3-pin industrial socket (so the cooker could be unplugged and something else plugged in from time to time in a domestic installation?
I had one once, not for plugging other stuff in but because we had a free-standing cooker we wanted to be able to move out for cleaning. The gas connection was a hose into a bayonet connector, so that came off, and it made sense for the electrical connection to do the same.

The sky did not fall in, the house did not catch fire, and I never noticed any dead bodies.
 
I would terminate the cooker circuit in a junction box using these Wago connectors. Then when you need to swap between mixer and cooker you isolate the circuit at the CU and swap.


If you're going to be doing this regularly then maybe also fit an isolator at the cooker point:
 
I would terminate the cooker circuit in a junction box using these Wago connectors. Then when you need to swap between mixer and cooker you isolate the circuit at the CU and swap. ...
One obviously could do that, but I would think it would represent the antithesis of 'convenience' !
If you're going to be doing this regularly then maybe also fit an isolator at the cooker point:
One could also do that - but why are you suggesting a 4-pole isolator?

Kind Regards, John
 
Yes and yes.
Your second 'yes' does not answer the question as toi whether your concern is about overload currents or fault currents.

The MC exists only to protect the cables, not accessories. I presume you would be 'happy' with a socket 'rated at 32A' to be protected by a 32A MCB, but such an MCB would allow about 36A to flow indefinitely or about 46A to flow for an hour, without tripping.

Furthermore, for what it's worth, I'm sure that, in practice, a "32A socket" could carry a lot more than 32A without coming to any harm. There are some issues, but I wouldn't personally loose any sleep over this particular one.

Kind Regards, John
 
Thanks all, but do I understand that it’s not technically allowed because this would be a non-shuttered socket?
 
Also, would there be any issues replacing the 40A type B MCD with a type D MCD (potentially a 32A one)?
 
I'm a bit concerned over your terminology.
You keep calling them MCD, whereas, others have correctly termed them MCB.
How much electrical experience do you actually have?
 
All pointless when the thing he wants to plug into the socket is 3 phase and will not work.

Sort that issue out first, then consider swapping the MCB and fitting a socket (which would look ugly in a domestic situation).
 

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