Going all electric?

RML wrote:The only problem I can see is getting water hot enough for a comfortable  shower. 
Rich..

I’d be quite concerned about heating. But mainly because tonight, I’m staying at 6000 feet, and it could get a bit chilly.

We’ve just come back from France where our 800W microwave (with an input wattage of 1200W) blew the ‘6A’ power supply, despite having everything else turned off.
The solution was quite painless, we paid M Le Patron one euro to update the supply to 10A.

Jarjar wrote:We’ve just come back from France where our 800W microwave (with an input wattage of 1200W) blew the ‘6A’ power supply, despite having everything else turned off.

I have had that experience on a (large) site in Germany.  I thought this is just the surge at startup and if I reset the circuit enough times I would get a microwaved curry.  I gave up after about 20 attempts.
6A * 230V = 1380W ?

Just realised I should have turned the microwave power down.

AutoSleepy_Don wrote:

Jarjar wrote:We’ve just come back from France where our 800W microwave (with an input wattage of 1200W) blew the ‘6A’ power supply, despite having everything else turned off.

I have had that experience on a (large) site in Germany.  I thought this is just the surge at startup and if I reset the circuit enough times I would get a microwaved curry.  I gave up after about 20 attempts.
6A * 230V = 1380W ?

Just realised I should have turned the microwave power down.

That wouldn't work. Lower power settings on microwaves work by simply stopping power for so many seconds, eg putting it at 50% means 20 seconds full power, 20 seconds no power, 20 seconds full, 20 seconds none etc etc.