I need to wire up an electric cooker ,am unsure what wires go where as in live earth etc

this can be caused with anything that heats up ( irons etc ) as they overload the fuse when heating elements are worn or have a bad earth wire which has weakened over time. is it a second hand cooker ? or old house ? its down to power through the wire causing the fuse to trip

• If it is a single oven attaching a 13amp plug and connecting it to a socket is fine. If it is a double oven it needs to be connected to a dedicated cooker circuit from your fuse board via a cooker control switch with 6mm twin and earth cable.

The US National Electrical Code only mandates white (or grey) for the neutral power conductor and bare copper, green, or green with yellow stripes for the protective ground. Power will generally be black or red. 3 phase power will have three colored lines, the first is generally black or brown, the second red or orange, and the third blue or yellow..
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Yellow/Green is Earth so 'E'. Brown is live so 'L', and Blue is neutral so 'N'.

The clue will be when the rcd trips out. If everything is switched off on the cooker with the exception of the clock when you power it up and then it trips out, it could be in the wiring to the oven from the control switch and or the wiring in the oven. The only way you are going to find this is to take the oven out of the housing and test the wiring, isolating components until you find the problem.

green or green and yellow is the ground (earth), blue is neutral, black and brown are both lives. this is the standard european wire color code since 2004. If it is older than that, black was used as a neutral, and blue as a live. very confusing.

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Live goes to live as normal earth to earth as normal, and the neutral is probably a comonj terminal, in other words it probably has a lnk joining the 2 neutrals together.

Switch contacts fused together

In most external fittings there is a live coming from the switch a neutral going back to the lighting ring main and an earth wire for protection

You are not competant to be rewiring any house wiring , the statement about the earth wire proves that.

No earth is akin to jumping into a lake without a life preserver on

Get an electrician involved before you burn the house down

You may need to get a wire connector to install on the ground (earth) wire, so it can be connected to the terminal connection point on the new oven.

If one wasn't provided with the oven, some do this as a service, just look at the ground terminal or in the bag with the instructions, etc. for one. If not, you should be able to purchase one, you'll just need to get one that fits the wire, so knowing the gauge of the wire (either Awg or Kcmil size) will make this easier to get the right connector size.

I recommend that a ring terminal be used, so in the event that the fastening screw might loosen, the ring terminal will not fall off the contact point, whereas a fork terminal could and can come off much more easily.

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Nonetheless, I hope you find this Very Helpful and best regards!

Unless your cooker is totally different to the norm, then yes you can use 3 core cable. assuming you are in the u/k, then the following applys.Brown is live-Blue is neutral, andGreen/Yellow is earth.
Depending on the total wattage of the cooker, you will need to use a min of 6mm twin and earth cable, If in any doubt, consult an electrician
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Trying to wire up an electric oven. Good with electrics, normally. Sounds stupid bus there are no holes to place the wires into on the oven panel. In other words not like the speces on a plug or on the main live circut on the wall. Where do I put the wires????