Electrical – How to know the ‘capacity’ of an electric socket

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I bought an electric oven, and the safety instructions say that it should be plugged to an electric socket with "capacity at least 10 Ampere".

How can I tell the capacity of my electric sockets?

I looked at the fuses in the electric control box outside the house. There are 5 fuses with "6 kA" written near them, and the main fuse with "10 kA". But the safety instructions talk about the capacity of the socket, not the fuse.

Best Answer

You need to trace the outlet back to the circuit breaker/fuse in the main panel and then see what amperage is carried by the circuit. Then you need to also find out what other outlets exist on the same circuit and what appliances are or can be plugged into them. If you overload a circuit (e.g. run your oven at the same time as running a circular saw out of a different outlet on the same circuit), the chances are the breaker will trip. That is less of an inconvenience than blowing a fuse that needs to be replaced. I am pretty sure that you use fuses and not breakers in your country but I may be wrong.