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Posted by Scott on July 17, 2008, 8:37 pm
RBM wrote:
>
> > I'm replacing a 30-year old electric Frigidaire drop-in stove with a new
> > Kenwood
> > electric drop-in. The old stove has a 220v electrical input consisting of
> > a black
> > wire, a black wire with a red stripe, a grey wire and a ground wire. I
> > believe the
> > man at the Sears store said that new stoves have two wires, plus a ground
> > wire.
> > What's the proper way to hook up the wiring?
> >
> > Thanks!
> > Scott
>
> Your old stove was connected to two hot legs, which were the black and black
> with red tracer, a neutral which was the gray, and a ground, which was green
> or bare. The new stove does not use a neutral, so cap that wire and just use
> the two hot legs and the ground. Typically a stove does use both neutral and
> ground, but often cooktops (unit with no oven) do not
RBM,
As it turned out, the new stove came with a black wire, a red wire, a neutral
wire, and a green wire (the ground). So we matched it up with the original
setup, and it works great!
Scott
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