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Title: Kitchen expelair
Post by JohnD on Dec 8^th, 2009, 9:31pm

My son is reorganising his kitchen.

He wants to use the exisiting 16amp spur for the cooker hood for a fridge freezer, which then leaves him a problem with how to feed the new expelair which will be on the other side if the room.

My answer is a new feed off the fusebox.

His answer is a spur off the exisiting downstairs ring main, which also feeds the kithcen- some eight - ten sockets in all. There is currently one spur to the boiler electrics.

And the proper answer is??????

And anyone know how much current an expelair draws?

Thanks

John D

Title: Re: Kitchen expelair
Post by Zambezi on Dec 8^th, 2009, 10:29pm

You get different models and sizes so can't say for sure but the little ones are only a few watts.

Title: Re: Kitchen expelair
Post by scotspark on Dec 8^th, 2009, 10:33pm

NEXT TO NO LOAD IN AN EXTRACT FAN

DPUR OFF THE RING WITH A 3 AMP FUSE OR DIRECTLY OFF LIGHTING CCT

Title: Re: Kitchen expelair
Post by Lectrician on Dec 9^th, 2009, 6:36am

I would only take it to the consumer unit if the run was as easy as taking it from a nearby socket etc. Een then I would spur it from the sockets MCB.

As said, the load is negligable.