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Can you use cooker switch for normal 13a appliance?
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<blockquote data-quote="jamespeliby" data-source="post: 490490" data-attributes="member: 32177"><p>Hello,</p><p></p><p>I have a simple question really, but I can’t seem to find the answer anywhere!</p><p></p><p>I have an electric wall-mounted heater which has been hard-wired into an on-off light-switch style socket (i.e. it is not plugged in), however I simply want to change this socket to a 2-gang socket with the same on-off style switch (so the heater can remain hard-wired) but an extra plug socket. However, the type of socket I describe only seems to exist as a “cooker switch”, which I really don’t want, as I don’t need a 45a on-off style switch! </p><p> </p><p></p><p>However, I was wondering if you <em>can</em> just use a normal 13a appliance (such as the hard-wired wall mounted electric heater) on a 45a cooker switch? My electric cable can only withstand 40a so I don’t want the hard-wired heater to try pull in more than that, but it shouldn’t do if it’s designed for a 13a switch, should it?</p><p></p><p>Thanks in advance for your time!</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="jamespeliby, post: 490490, member: 32177"] Hello, I have a simple question really, but I can’t seem to find the answer anywhere! I have an electric wall-mounted heater which has been hard-wired into an on-off light-switch style socket (i.e. it is not plugged in), however I simply want to change this socket to a 2-gang socket with the same on-off style switch (so the heater can remain hard-wired) but an extra plug socket. However, the type of socket I describe only seems to exist as a “cooker switch”, which I really don’t want, as I don’t need a 45a on-off style switch! However, I was wondering if you [I]can[/I] just use a normal 13a appliance (such as the hard-wired wall mounted electric heater) on a 45a cooker switch? My electric cable can only withstand 40a so I don’t want the hard-wired heater to try pull in more than that, but it shouldn’t do if it’s designed for a 13a switch, should it? Thanks in advance for your time! [/QUOTE]
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