Kitchen Equipment Landing in Strong Crosswinds
Posted by: Michael Slater in 41 SpringleafThe woman who runs the store we bought all our industrial kitchen equipment from (chiller, oven, and gas burner) drives us nuts. She never follows up on any promises of action, never returns calls, etc. Yesterday, things were supposed to arrive, but she fucked it all into a cocked hat, so instead we had to wait until today. I wish that was the only problem we suffered.
Today the workers were unloading the oven (it’s enormous) and Frank, our architect/builder comes by. He turns colors immediately and starts talking to the workers in dialect. Clearly something is wrong.
Even though Frank and Ling asked, confirmed, and reconfirmed with this woman that the oven ran on single-phase 20amp 220v circuit, in fact, no, it doesn’t.
It doesn’t run on single phase. It runs on triple-phase.
It isn’t 220V. It’s 450V.
The only thing she got right is 20amp service.
So now Frank needs to get the electrician to rewire into the kitchen to provide adequate service. All the cabinetry has already been installed, so this will be a stupid, unecessary, gross work.
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You didn’t really think it was gonna all run smoothly did you? Hope this does not set your move date back…
20 amps of 480 is 20 horsepower….. one hell of an oven. You should independantly measure and visually see that the frame is grounded so a fault does not killl you. You should have ground fault protection if available.
If you plug or unplug such a device in a US power plant today you would be required to wear a flash suit while doing so.
I bet that will be a wonderful oven that you will want to take with you when you move.
Yeah, it’s a fairly big oven, but my guess why it needs so much more power than a conventional convection oven is that this thing needs to generate steam on demand during the baking cycle. I would guess vaporizing water into steam rapidly is the real power hog.
Although I will probably never touch or move the oven, good point on the danger. Should remember to kill the circuit breaker before I screw with it.
No, Mary, fortunately this does nothing to our move-in date. We get the house keys on the 13th. Until then it’s mostly cleanup and installation of appliances and other house-systems (intercoms, auto-gate, etc)
Also seems like my epoxy floor is finally mostly-cured. it took nearly a week.
I will be interested to see how your epoxy floor wears.