Moving a cooker?

[paolow]

Ok, at Paolow towers I cook my dinner in my 'Belling compact auto deluxe' cooker which looks a bit like this beauty:



Its a 4 ring fairly decrepit thing but I want it over the other side of the kitchen. Fair enough, Ill need a junction box and some appropriate cabling. However, this is where I get stuck. OK - 30A junction box - thats easy enough but the cable that people are talking about is 10mm. thats HUGE! i measured the existing cable going into the cooker and its a flat one (like a flat twin and earth) and its only 15mm wide at the most. surely then the existing cable cant be that big? the only markings on it tell me that its 1000/600 volt cable which is useful.
On top of this the connections at the back of the cooker wil,l I am almost certain, not fit a 10mm wire.
This leaves me a bit stuck! Is there something obvious I am missing? Do I really need the 10mm cabling? the cooker is moving maybe 2 yards so maybe a 5m run of cable?

Edited by paolow on Monday 13th April 18:34

[paolow]

mk1fan said:

Simpo Two said:

Are you confusing '10mm diameter' with '10mm cross-sectional area'?

Ultimately it's the current carrying capacity that counts.

ditto

Precisely what I was doing...
The rest of the mechanics makes sense to me though!