29 Apr
2012
29 Apr
'12
3:36 p.m.
On 29/04/2012 23:23, Mouse wrote:
I think in the UK "clothes dryers" would be called "tumble dryers"
http://www.currys.co.uk/gbuk/r/tumble%20dryers/0_0_0/
and in the UK these tend to be on a normal outlet.
Cookers, water
heaters, shwoer heaters, etc normally have their own
dedicated circuits fused at 30A, 32A, 45A or even 60A. It is rare
for these devices ot be plugged in, it is possible [...]
In my - admittedly rather
limited - experience, water heaters tend to
be wired in, with no explicit connector, whereas stoves[%] tend to be
plugged in with a rather heavy and distinctive four-conductor plug.
(Two mains phases, neutral, and ground.) Clothes dryers - which you
didn't mention unless UK English is even stranger to my eyes than I
thought - are like stoves in this regard. I'm not sure what a "shower
heater" is; if it's for warming up the room before/during showering,
I'd expect that to be wired in unless it's a portable room heater which
just happens to get used for that room.
Instant water heater :-
http://www.diy.com/nav/rooms/bathrooms/showering/showers/electric-showers/T…
must be hard wired, i.e. no plug and socket and switched pull cord or
external switch.
Of course, not all stoves, nor clothes dryers nor
water heaters, are
electric. I'm talking about just the electric ones here, the ones
where the principal energy source is electric mains.
[%] Are these "cooker"s? I'm talking about the thing that produces
heat for preparing food in a kitchen. Often bundled into the same
appliance as an oven; indeed, without an oven there's a tendency to
call them something other than stoves - `hotplate' is the word that
comes to mind, though IMO that usage is a bit of a misnomer.
http://www.currys.co.uk/gbuk/r/cookers/0_0_0/
assuming it will show you out side English speaking East Pondia...
must be hard wired...
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