32A cooker circuit

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"For many years, mainland Western Europe has used a mains electricity supply rated at nominally 220VAC 50Hz. The UK used 240VAC 50Hz.

Currently, ALL Western European supplies are classified 230VAC. In reality there is no 230VAC supply unless you create one locally. 230VAC was a “standard” created during European "harmonisation" to give a single voltage standard across Western Europe, including UK and Irish Republic.

Although the ideal would have been to have a single voltage there were too many political, financial and technical obstacles to reduce UK voltage to European levels or to increase European voltage to UK levels, so a new standard was created to cover both. This was achieved by changing the tolerances of previously existing supply standards. UK voltage to 240VAC + 6% and - 10% and European to 220VAC +10% and -6% (thereby creating a manageable overlap) and we would call these two combined 230VAC, despite the fact that nobody was intentionally generating at 230VAC!"

shown73

Have not actually settled on a specific cooker yet, wanted to see what people thought about the power requirements. Appreciate all the answers, its a big help.
The intention is to go for an induction cooker, although its only the hob part of course that is induction powered. It won't be a huge thing retired couple, don't need a six burner range, lol.
Just an interesting aside, years ago I had a large, german made, "n" gauge railway layout, complete with controllers, and it really didn't like 240V. Couldn't run it flat out, would have knackered the locos. That was the days of 220V european appliances. Completely irrelevant I know, just interesting...

Owain_Moneysaver

More likely, circuit breakers offer much closer protection than fuses, so it was possible to use a 32A breaker on a circuit previously protected by a 30A fuse.

Ectophile

For what it's worth, a standard 30A breaker will never trip at 32A. It should only trip at 34A or more, and even that might take an hour or more.