Indesit IWDE 12 power consumption

[midknight]

Hi again – can you help?

I have a Indesit DIF04 dishwasher rated 1880 watts

and a Indesit IWDE 12 washing machine both supplied with current though a fcu.

I do not know the power consumption for this but wonder if one 13 amp spur will cope. This is in a new build house so I may be able to get the electrician back if work needs doing.

Do you think one 2.3amp supply cable is up to the job?

Thank you if you are able to help.

[hotpnt]

Re: Indesit IWDE 12 power consumption

hi not sure what you mean by a 2.3amp cable, if its really 2.3amp then it will melt in seconds!!!, presume you mean 2.5mm cable?, the cable would cope but one FCU doing both machines would melt very soon, dont put them both on one unit!

[midknight]

Re: Indesit IWDE 12 power consumption

Hey thank for reply

you are right I meant to say 2.5 twin and eath – sorry about that

There are two very interesting threads on the Screwfix electricity forum about rings, radials and spur boxes

It may be that you can have 2 sockets if they are drawing current through a fused spur off a ring circuit

[cockney steve]

Re: Indesit IWDE 12 power consumption

AFAIK you are allowed 2 outlets on a spur….that is, each outlet can supply 13 amps (or is it 14A now we’re 230 V and not 240?)….a total of nearly 6 KW down a length of 2.5 cable. sounds a lot, but just look how thin a piece of 30 amp fusewire is.!

a 2-gang (double) socket-outlet would be your max. on a spur

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