Cooker Feed Splitter

[TheScullster]

Hi all

Still looking at splitting my 6mm cooker feed to 2 separate cooker points (as hob and oven will be on opposite sides of the room). The split will be in the loft as the kitchen is single storey extension.

Does anyone see a problem using one of these:

do the splitting?

1 x 6mm in and 2 x 6mm out. This will be mounted "upside down" in my case as the feed enters the loft at kitchen ceiling level. I then intend to take the single feed up the wall, introduce the splitter and then take the two feeds in trunking either along the wall or roof timbers to each cooker point drop. As this will be surface mounted, I thought of mounting on 10mm thick timber backboard, notched out to allow for incoming cable.

Any comments please?

TIA

Phil

[ARWadsworth]

to do the splitting?

Nothing wrong with those splitters. I take it you did not like the 60A junction boxes then?

Cheers

Adam

[Andrew Gabriel]

to do the splitting?

Looks like it's designed to mount on, and overhang a single flush back box (i.e. what's already behind a cooker flex outlet plate). If so, it will overhang the edge of a surface back box, and probably look very strange.

[TheScullster]

"ARWadsworth" wrote

Hi Adam

Yes I went to a local supplier specifically to get the 60A version and he showed me the appliance splitter as an alternative. Using this will make a neater job as I intend to run the cables to and from the splitter in separate trunking lengths - finnicky I know but we all have our crosses to bear!

Phil

[TheScullster]

> to do the splitting?

Thanks Andrew

Yes that's the reason for my mention of a 10mm backboard - notched for the incoming cable. I guess I could also use a slim backbox with bottom cutouts.

Phil

[js.b1]

Remind me...

- is the isolator within 2m of both appliances?

- must you absolutely have a single isolator?

Otherwise why not run 2 cables off 2 isolators off 1 circuit labelled as radial (re no topology confusion to the cognitively challenged)?

You could mount two 1G 32A isolators side by side in a "huddle" which would look ok. I would use independent 47mm deep backboxes (rather than 1G+1G) because 6mm FTE is a bit boistrous when cornered in a box unless you catch it by surprise. It adds cost of course, just a thought.

Someone on Ebay does a faceplate engraving service for =A32 as I recall, considering how some wiring accessory legends "scratch off if a knat exceeds ODPM speed limits and impacts".