We tried to install an induction cook-top 12 years ago when we renovated our apartment in a 1979 vintage apartment building. The electrician said the electrical supply couldn't handle the 40 Amp demand so we settled for replacing the 12-year-old halogen cook-top which was OK with 30 Amps.
Please - could someone comment on induction cook-t…
We tried to install an induction cook-top 12 years ago when we renovated our apartment in a 1979 vintage apartment building. The electrician said the electrical supply couldn't handle the 40 Amp demand so we settled for replacing the 12-year-old halogen cook-top which was OK with 30 Amps.
Please - could someone comment on induction cook-tops with batteries that might work on our 'meagre' electrical supply?
Thanks Lloyd. I'm most interested in what we could in Calgary, AB. I also sent your post to my family in the UK, where Asthma is an issue in one family. I found a couple of useful articles in a D-D-G search: (Please delete if you worry about commercialism):
Two responses (lightly edited) from my siblings in England (check the map in Figure 2, above):
(1) "I'm glad I've never had to cook on gas! We haven't got gas in the house here".
(2) "Well, despite the dire warnings Mark and thank you for your concern, I/we have had a gas hob, [stovetop] and retain 2 gas fires in lounge and 1 bedroom, for years. Deliberately. However we have an electric oven, also now electric microwave and crockpot. We opted to have both power systems *because of power outages* [emphasis added].
"We later experienced a Christmas with a household of 5 residents, when the power lines and poles got uprooted and downed across [the] Lane, by high winds - yes, just outside our house, but the whole of North West Cheshire was without electricity for days, from 22 Dec, 3 to 9 days I think. Heating, though gas, was controlled by electrics - shucks - no heat ... We were the only household with a hot Christmas dinner, - turkey cooked by gas [bottled propane] in the caravan oven by J and I the veg, etc. in the kitchen.
"A neighbouring family of four were supposed to go to [a relative] in [a distant town] for a week, so no supplies [at home] so they joined us.
"Thus a week in the midwinter dark and cold ... On other occasions in elec power outages I would drive next door and bring the elderly neighbour, to spend at least a half day with us. All her heating, light and water were elec.
"SO
"It is expedient and sensible in this environment to have split power here, and I'm sure I'd have had many more problems due to a week of midwinter cold. (Burst pipes?) As it was, we survived, the gas fumes didn’t get us, and I'm still here today. So is the house - just!
"I will heed your info but stay as I am !!!!"
(1) lives in a newer house served by underground utilities in an Eastern England village. (2) lives just outside a village, in an older house served by overhead wooden pole-mounted electricity, phone and TV cables, and underground gas, water and municipal sewage (but not storm drains).
I am an advocate of underground utilities (remember the Quebec ice storm a few years ago?) but wonder what is going to happen to our underground utilities now we are experiencing extreme storms such as SE Spain a few days ago. Should we be installing weather-protected ducts or 'utilidors'? Under- or above-ground? How? Please discuss (no prizes).
We tried to install an induction cook-top 12 years ago when we renovated our apartment in a 1979 vintage apartment building. The electrician said the electrical supply couldn't handle the 40 Amp demand so we settled for replacing the 12-year-old halogen cook-top which was OK with 30 Amps.
Please - could someone comment on induction cook-tops with batteries that might work on our 'meagre' electrical supply?
https://heatmap.news/sparks/nycha-induction-stoves-copper
Thanks Lloyd. I'm most interested in what we could in Calgary, AB. I also sent your post to my family in the UK, where Asthma is an issue in one family. I found a couple of useful articles in a D-D-G search: (Please delete if you worry about commercialism):
https://www.batterytechonline.com/trends/why-a-battery-assisted-induction-stove-makes-sense
and
https://electrek.co/2024/02/29/induction-ovens-with-big-batteries-solve-lots-of-problems/
Two responses (lightly edited) from my siblings in England (check the map in Figure 2, above):
(1) "I'm glad I've never had to cook on gas! We haven't got gas in the house here".
(2) "Well, despite the dire warnings Mark and thank you for your concern, I/we have had a gas hob, [stovetop] and retain 2 gas fires in lounge and 1 bedroom, for years. Deliberately. However we have an electric oven, also now electric microwave and crockpot. We opted to have both power systems *because of power outages* [emphasis added].
"We later experienced a Christmas with a household of 5 residents, when the power lines and poles got uprooted and downed across [the] Lane, by high winds - yes, just outside our house, but the whole of North West Cheshire was without electricity for days, from 22 Dec, 3 to 9 days I think. Heating, though gas, was controlled by electrics - shucks - no heat ... We were the only household with a hot Christmas dinner, - turkey cooked by gas [bottled propane] in the caravan oven by J and I the veg, etc. in the kitchen.
"A neighbouring family of four were supposed to go to [a relative] in [a distant town] for a week, so no supplies [at home] so they joined us.
"Thus a week in the midwinter dark and cold ... On other occasions in elec power outages I would drive next door and bring the elderly neighbour, to spend at least a half day with us. All her heating, light and water were elec.
"SO
"It is expedient and sensible in this environment to have split power here, and I'm sure I'd have had many more problems due to a week of midwinter cold. (Burst pipes?) As it was, we survived, the gas fumes didn’t get us, and I'm still here today. So is the house - just!
"I will heed your info but stay as I am !!!!"
(1) lives in a newer house served by underground utilities in an Eastern England village. (2) lives just outside a village, in an older house served by overhead wooden pole-mounted electricity, phone and TV cables, and underground gas, water and municipal sewage (but not storm drains).
I am an advocate of underground utilities (remember the Quebec ice storm a few years ago?) but wonder what is going to happen to our underground utilities now we are experiencing extreme storms such as SE Spain a few days ago. Should we be installing weather-protected ducts or 'utilidors'? Under- or above-ground? How? Please discuss (no prizes).