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Can anyone recommend: Electrician

Posted: Thu Jul 30, 2020 1:16pm
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vanessa

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Help required 

Needed an electrician who can look at an oven .hardly used and 2years old .keeps tripping the electric when put on .

Advice needed please 

RichT

Posted: Thu Jul 30, 2020 4:00pm

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Posted: Thu Jul 30, 2020 4:00pm

Have you checked your overall power allowance on your electricity contract / bill?

Your electricity is normally contracted for a certain amount of maximum power consumption. If you're with Iberdrola, the lowest option is 3.3kW, although 5.75kW is more usual. Your bill will show a 'potencia contratada' which is your capacity.

Most ovens average around 2.5kW, but some will be higher, so this doesn't give you much leeway if you have also have a fridge, freezer, tv, pool pump, fans / aircon, etc. on at the same time. 

If this is the reason, you may need to upgrade your contract.

Hope this helps!


vanessa

Posted: Thu Jul 30, 2020 6:26pm

vanessa

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Posted: Thu Jul 30, 2020 6:26pm

RichT wrote on Thu Jul 30, 2020 4:00pm:

Have you checked your overall power allowance on your electricity contract / bill?

Your electricity is normally contracted for a certain amount of maximum power consumption. If you're with Iberdrola, the lowest option is 3.3kW, although 5.75kW is more usual. Your bill will show a 'potencia contratada' which is your capacity....

...

Most ovens average around 2.5kW, but some will be higher, so this doesn't give you much leeway if you have also have a fridge, freezer, tv, pool pump, fans / aircon, etc. on at the same time. 

If this is the reason, you may need to upgrade your contract.

Hope this helps!


Thank you 

How do we up grade ? Is it easy to do ?

RichT

Posted: Thu Jul 30, 2020 7:13pm

RichT

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Posted: Thu Jul 30, 2020 7:13pm

vanessa wrote on Thu Jul 30, 2020 6:26pm:

Thank you 

How do we up grade ? Is it easy to do ?

If your bill shows a capacity lower than 5.75kW, then I would suggest that this is the issue.

You should then contact Iberdrola and then they will probably arrange for an electrician / engineer to come out and check that your connection & the local network has the capacity, then they just make a change in the meter. If they have similar properties in the same area with higher capacities then they might not even need to check your's.

You will pay a slightly higher 'Potencia facturada' which is the equivalent of the UK 'Standing Charge' for having a higher capacity.

vanessa

Posted: Thu Jul 30, 2020 7:26pm

vanessa

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Location: Los Belones

Joined: 5 Mar 2018

Posted: Thu Jul 30, 2020 7:26pm

RichT wrote on Thu Jul 30, 2020 7:13pm:

If your bill shows a capacity lower than 5.75kW, then I would suggest that this is the issue.

You should then contact Iberdrola and then they will probably arrange for an electrician / engineer to come out and check that your connection & the local network has the capacity, then they just make a change in the meter. If they have similar properties in the same area with ...

...higher capacities then they might not even need to check your's.

You will pay a slightly higher 'Potencia facturada' which is the equivalent of the UK 'Standing Charge' for having a higher capacity.

Thank you for your help 👍

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