Basic rules for connecting kitchen appliances to the mains

connection of household appliances to the mains

The kitchen is considered the most “voracious” consumer of electricity - after all, 75-90% of all home appliances are concentrated in this room. The total power of the kitchen electrical equipment can be 12-16 kW. That is why it is so important to properly connect all appliances in the kitchen - otherwise its performance will be zero.

It is necessary to make connection of equipment according to in advance made project. After all, you will need to pre-select a place for microwave oven, oven, refrigerator, hood, hob and, accordingly, determine where each outlet will be installed. It is important that the places where the equipment is connected to the power grid are located so that they have free access, but at the same time not in plain sight.

What you need to know when connecting appliances to the mains

Connecting any equipment in the kitchen requires laying electrical cable. It can be done in 2 ways:

  • hidden, that is, in the wall;
  • surface - in a protective box.

The best way is considered a hidden method, but it requires preliminary planning, thanks to which you can distribute the load on the grid.

The difference will also be the case if not ordinary is used, but built-in appliances. For built-in hood, oven, microwave oven characteristic functionality and decorative. In addition, this method of location of equipment in the kitchen is considered incredibly economical in terms of spatial organization. It’s important not just to produce connection hood, stoves and so on, but also to protect the room from possible emergency situations associated with the wiring. For this, the shield is supplemented with a fuse - it will turn off the electricity throughout the apartment in case the voltage exceeds the allowable values.

It should also take into account the power of technology in the kitchen - for a microwave oven, oven, hob, hood, it can vary from 1 to 6 kW. Depending on this, it is determined which socket and plug will be required to connect one or another device. It is clear that these components must have a performance of "euro".

Important! Some experts propose to exclude a bunch of "plug-socket" from the electrical network, making the connection of equipment in the kitchen directly using terminal blocks. They claim that this method of connection increases the reliability of the electrical network. In fact, such a connection is dangerous - the owner of the room should always be able to independently disconnect the device from the network.

If the connection of equipment with large power consumption (for example, a powerful hood, oven, hob) is made in an apartment with old wiring, then for each individual product own wiring is mounted from the appropriate cable for the load level.

There are also special recommendations for connecting the oven and the hob - a power outlet is mandatory for them.In addition, do not forget that the connection of the hob is made only after the countertop is installed.


Basic rules for installing and selecting outlets

In most cases, each apartment already has an old power grid with sockets, however, they are inconveniently located and do not allow to transfer equipment to the required place. And because the installation of new furniture, hob and oven is accompanied by the transfer of sockets. You may need to add sockets in the kitchen - for example, for a microwave oven.

kitchen wiring diagram

Each outlet in the kitchen is installed in accordance with the following recommendations:

  1. For the hob, the socket is installed at a height of 15-40 cm - behind the stove or furniture. The socket is set to 32 A. The high power of such equipment (5-6 kW) forces the socket to be powered from a separate machine.
  2. For the oven (2-3 kW), a standard socket is mounted, at the same height - 10-40 cm.
  1. Other household outlets in the kitchen (for example, for a microwave oven) are installed at a height of 1.0-1.2 m, along the worktop, in accordance with the existing furniture layout plan.
  2. The outlet for the hood is mounted at a height of 2 meters from the floor level.
built-in technology connection

Important! On one outlet line so many devices are connected so that their power does not exceed 4 kW in total (it is clear that this is for cases when all the devices are working at the same time). If the power of the equipment significantly exceeds the recommended, then a separate line is drawn through the machine.

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1 Comment

  1. Dmitriy says

    Connect appliances, especially stoves and ovens, you need to be very careful. In our case, the masters crookedly connected the hob, which led to its periodic outages. Connected directly (without socket) and through a cable hidden in the wall. Where now the problem remains to guess.

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