Cooker tripping electric

SPANIEL36

Hi,
we bought a second hand cooker the other day, the grill and rings work great its just last night we tried to use the oven and it kept tripping the trip switch....any ideas????

mexicanwaver

Did you have to hard wire it into the wall into a designated cooker connection? If so, it's probably drawing more power than the old cooker used to do.

Or, is it simply plugged into the wall (not hard wired)? In this case, you could be running it on the normal "sockets" circuit, rather than a designated cooker circuit? Again, it will be drawing too much power.

The best advice is for you to get a qualified electrician (Part-P certified?) to install it for you.

davetrousers

Kerbdog cool!

I love(d) that band.

Gridlock was their best song.

mexicanwaver

davetrousers wrote: »

Kerbdog cool!

I love(d) that band.

Hey, another Kerbdog fan! :beer:

FYI - they have reformed over the last few years for various gigs. No new songs yet, but who knows.....

Checkout the fans forum on www.kerbdog.com if you haven't already

davetrousers

mexicanwaver wrote: »

Hey, another Kerbdog fan! :beer:

FYI - they have reformed over the last few years for various gigs. No new songs yet, but who knows.....

Checkout the fans forum on www.kerbdog.com if you haven't already

I know I used the South Park style logo on that page to make myself a T Shirt!

I have seen that they have done a few gigs but they've all been in Ireland.

SPANIEL36

mexicanwaver wrote: »

Did you have to hard wire it into the wall into a designated cooker connection? If so, it's probably drawing more power than the old cooker used to do.

Or, is it simply plugged into the wall (not hard wired)? In this case, you could be running it on the normal "sockets" circuit, rather than a designated cooker circuit? Again, it will be drawing too much power.

The best advice is for you to get a qualified electrician (Part-P certified?) to install it for you.

yes this is correct, does this mean that its wired incorrectly or a problem with the cooker?

real1314

mexicanwaver wrote: »

Did you have to hard wire it into the wall into a designated cooker connection? If so, it's probably drawing more power than the old cooker used to do.

Or, is it simply plugged into the wall (not hard wired)? In this case, you could be running it on the normal "sockets" circuit, rather than a designated cooker circuit? Again, it will be drawing too much power.

The best advice is for you to get a qualified electrician (Part-P certified?) to install it for you.

I'm not a spark, but I'd suspect this is incorrect - I'd reckon that the rings and grill draw more power than the oven does. So on that basis I'd point the finger at a fault in the oven circuitry.
Did you buy it from a shop?
What rating is it (I think it should be on the back somewhere) and what rating is your mains cooker circuit (check at the fuse box).

SPANIEL36

the mains cooker circuit in the fuse box is rated at 30amps. The cooker also says 30 amps on the back plate.

It was a private sale so no guarantee. got to admit not had rings and grill on at the same time yet so dont know if this will trip the box too.

ormus

assuming the domestic wiring can handle the power req, then it maybe its the oven element circuit that is shorting out direct.

matbe

this will be a faulty element in the oven
is it tripping the rcd or the circuit breaker ?

try replacing the element

SPANIEL36

.its the trip switch thats switching off