creda c150ew

[bazza500]

Can anyone help with this?

Every year the cookers at our local schools get tested for electrical safety by someone from our local council and then they phone me to repair the faults. Two years ago he managed to fail 46 out of 48 cookers at one school ( one of them failing because it had a gravy stain on one of the plates!!) but this year this bloke has excelled himself by failing 3 creda cookers because “the plates don`t heat fast enough”.

I, for the life of me, have no idea how he knows how fast they should heat or how he tested them or with what (probably an uncalibrated hand). To my uncalibrated hand they seem fine.

Does anyone know of any manufacturer who states how fast a plate should heat and how to test it as I now have to write a report to say these cookers are perfectly serviceable less than 1 week after someone failed them.

I would imagine that a simple thing like room temperature would make a difference.

Any help on this would be appreciated.

[cornwell40]

Re: creda c150ew

Local council officials run in a strange parallel universe to us anway, so don’t try to understand them. I had it explained to me yesterday that because I was ten days late with a rates payment I was two months in arrears. The next payment being due on the first of November 😕

Tony C

[ace]

Re: creda c150ew

One of the troubles with these cast solid plates is they take ages to heat up. I have had them where part of the elemnt has gone o/c, but it still heats up, but slower thn normal. The quickest way I have found to test for this is with a clip on Amp meter, tests each setting on the switch and the elements, more amps as the switch is turned higher.

Beware of these pratts who test cookers in schools. I was in the Home Economics Room (posh for cookery lessons), repairing a tumble drier.

This pratt came in to test the cookers on their annual inspection, failed every one on insulation. I said to him, how many do you fail, hundreds he replied. I told him to go round and switch all the cookers on for a few minutes, and the test them again. They all passed.

The teacher who was with me was amazed, I told her that as the cookers had not been used for three days, the elements has absorbed moisture from the air, and this is what had shown up on the meter. Has anybody else noticed that most elements are not sealed at the ends anymore, where the porcelain insulater fits.

Ace

[goosegreen]

Re: creda c150ew

Bazza500
If you have it, Someware on the DST DVD there are instructions for testing hotplates it involves heating a measured amount of water and measuring the temp rise in a given time.

Goose

[whiskeyjack6058]

I thought I get it bad with sticky situations that I dont want to get involved in. I wander how this numpty would cope with an induction hob…….

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