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Three wire electric oven, four wire wall? Maury Markowitz 09-30-2007
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Posted by Maury Markowitz on September 30, 2007, 4:29 pm
I've seen several examples on how to wire an electric oven with four
wires into home wiring with either three or four wires. However my new
oven has only three wires, red, black and yellow, and I haven't seen
any wiring diagrams for this case.

I'm _guessing_ that I wire the yellow ground (yes, yellow!) to the
white, red to red and black to black. But this seems to suggest the
white is attached to ground (which is what you do in the four-to-three
wire cases) and this has the potential to charge the appliance case.

Has anyone seen this situation before?

Maury


Posted by RBM on September 30, 2007, 5:03 pm
Your wiring scheme sounds fine, although if this is a new oven, it should
have wiring instructions included with it or attached to the back where the
flex cable is



> I've seen several examples on how to wire an electric oven with four
> wires into home wiring with either three or four wires. However my new
> oven has only three wires, red, black and yellow, and I haven't seen
> any wiring diagrams for this case.
>
> I'm _guessing_ that I wire the yellow ground (yes, yellow!) to the
> white, red to red and black to black. But this seems to suggest the
> white is attached to ground (which is what you do in the four-to-three
> wire cases) and this has the potential to charge the appliance case.
>
> Has anyone seen this situation before?
>
> Maury
>



Posted by Maury Markowitz on October 1, 2007, 8:41 am
> Your wiring scheme sounds fine, although if this is a new oven, it should
> have wiring instructions included with it or attached to the back where the
> flex cable is

It does, in "germanglish". I can understand the words, but can't make
heads or tails of what they're trying to say!

Maury


Posted by Mark Lloyd on October 1, 2007, 10:00 am
On Mon, 01 Oct 2007 12:41:08 -0000, Maury Markowitz

>> Your wiring scheme sounds fine, although if this is a new oven, it should
>> have wiring instructions included with it or attached to the back where the
>> flex cable is
>
>It does, in "germanglish". I can understand the words, but can't make
>heads or tails of what they're trying to say!
>

I have dealt with instructions like that. For such things, I often
find the drawings much more understandable.

>Maury
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Posted by Maury Markowitz on October 2, 2007, 12:01 pm
> I have dealt with instructions like that. For such things, I often
> find the drawings much more understandable.

...no diagrams. *sigh*

We called the manufacturer, they were more confused than us. They said
wire red-red, black-black and yellow-ground. This gives the unit
power, the lights and controls all work, but when you try to get heat
nothing happens. I'm assuming it should be yellow-white, but forget
it, I'll let them come in and "fix" it under warrantee.


Maury


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