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My hob in my kitchen is 7.3kw? Normal 32a * 240 circuit allows up to 7.68kw, and the 6mm^2 cable is rated to something like 45amps

This seems fairly common e.g. https://www.currys.co.uk/products/aeg-ikb64401fb-59-cm-elect...

I am sure data centers have larger circuit breakers and chunkier cables than my kitchen appliances!



Woah, I looked at the specs:

    Front left: 2.3 kW / 3.7 kW
Cripes. You can boil water extremely fast on that IH setup! I'm living with 1.5 kW, and it is painful...


When we first got our induction cooktop I was so excited about how ridiculously fast we could boil water. Which is definitely an odd thing to get excited about. It definitely isn't that powerful though. That's a lot of power.




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