How To Wire A 16 Amp Plug

I need some advice on wiring in my new 90cm hob with 2 live wires.

How to wire a 16 amp plug. Remove the plug cover by either snapping or unscrewing it. In the uk we only use 240 volt 13 amp plugs and sockets no matter how much power is required even a small led desk top light which uses 200 mw 0 2 watts still uses a 13 amp plug. Receptacles are stationary and designed to handle 10 gauge wire so you usually don t need to crimp connection rings onto the wires. It will also be on the 20 amp circuit like the 13 amp plug but like the european and american plugs it will have no fuse in it.

Wire them to the left and right plugs. 16 amp workshop socket. If the device requires 1425 watts on a 240 volt supply it would be using 6 amps. The blue wire is inserted into the left pin the pin is marked with a blue spot or the letter n.

How to wire a 240 volt 16 amp plug. The green and yellow wire must always be inserted into the top pin. Insert the twisted copper wires into the holes in the pins. Just because the old plug was a 16 amp one does not mean you need a 16 amp supply.

Wiring the terminal block on a login oven. Thanks for anyone s help. You can leave it disconnected for a lamp. The procedure for wiring a nema l14 30 receptacle is similar to the one for wiring a plug.

Of course it really is a 20 amp plug and not a 16 amp plug but it s overload protection is provided by the circuit breaker. Re wiring a shaver plug into a 3 pin. The longer third plug rotated 90 degrees from the other two is for ground. Alternating current switches directions 60 times a second so you can treat the two wires as identical.

The 10 gauge 3 conductor cable must be connected to a 240 volt 30 amp breaker in the main panel. I have just got a bs en 60309 2 16 amp 240 volt blue plug and can t figure out how to wire it as thire are no markings or colour codes except for earth and a terminal labled l is this live or neutral. A similar situation occurs here when we use a 16 amp plug here.