JoeJoe wrote:
Planning to add a mesh to the home network soon, and need an extra power
socket in the kitchen for the unit that will go in there. Most obvious
way to achieve that is by adding a spur to the electric oven's ring.

The ring is fed directly from the CU and has a single socket on it, the
one the oven is plugged into.

I doubt if it's a ring then. What is the rating of the MCB/RCBO in
the CU feeding the oven?

It sounds a bit odd altogether, a dedicated circuit for an oven tends
to be a 32A (or something like that) with a single 4sqmm or 6sqmm feed
to the oven which would be hard wired (i.e. not a plug). The oven
connection unit with the switch on the kitchen wall often has a single
socket for something other than the oven to be plugged in.

Has your oven been changed? I.e. could it have been hard wired once
and changed to one that can be plugged in?


Plan is to use one of these
https://www.screwfix.com/p/lap-13a-s...-inserts/29377
wired from the oven's socket, and continuing to another socket that will
feed the power supply for the mesh unit. The mesh unit consumes
negligible current.

Any reason why I shouldn't do it this way?

Should be OK, even connected to a dedicated oven circuit, but I'd be
happier knowing exactly what the oven [not] ring circuit actually is.

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Chris Green
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