wiring electric baseboard heat

[Anonymous]

I plan on installing an 8' 2000watt baseboard unit, however the directions for wiring are a little fuzzy. One end has a black and a red wire capped together and the other end has the red wire hooked up with some sort of connector and two black wires capped together. am i missing something. where do i hook to and what kind of thermostsat do i need thx

[bozzman]

so please use this link to e mail me thx

[Wgoodrich]

The baseboard heater will have two insulated wires on one end of hte heater that is wire nutted together. On the other end of the heater you will find the same two insulated wire that may or may not be wire nutted together. You may run you power to either end of that heater. The end where you connect you house wire [12/2wGrnd black is hot and white is reidentified by black tape ring showing it also hot then a bare ground wire as your house wire] is connected separtely with one insulated wire to the black of your house wire and the other insulated wire at that same end of the heater to be connected to the reidentified white wire. Then you connect the bare wire to the green wire or green screw of that heater. On the opposite end of the heater from where you connect you house wire to the heater the two insulated wires must be wire nutted together.

You must install 240 volts from a double pole 20 amp breaker installed in your main panel then running the 12/2wGrnd to the heater to supply power from the panel to the heater. The black and white wires in the panel connect to the two lugs of the double pole breaker and the bare connects to the grounding bar in the panel.

A thermostat may be installed [doublo pole] either in the wall or on the end of the heater, your choice. All you have to do if it is a wall thermostat is route the 12/2 Romex from the panel to the thermostat then run a 12/2 Romex from that thermostat to the heater. Then connect the black and white wires of the Romex to the thermostat coming into that wall thermostat and going out of that wall thermostat box to the heater.

If you install a heater mounted thermostat it is the same double pole heater 240 volt themostat as the wall thermostat is and wired the same just running the 12/2 Romex from the panel directly to the heater mounted thermostat then to the heater element.

Be sure not to block that heater with any curtain or furniture or it will over heat and cause a risk of fire. The front of that heater must remain free and open to the room. Also do not install receptacles over the element of the heater so that cords can not lay in front of that heater to meld down and cause a fire.

Hope this helps

Wg

[bozzman]

i`m going down to do it now. thx for your help

[Wgoodrich]

Good luck and let us know how you come out.

Wg

[bozzman]

was a lot easier than i thought, thanks for your help. i should have asked about the inline thermostat tho. I bought a two pole and hooked it up wrong. Once the smoke cleared i reread the directions and hooked it up right. nice and toasty now :lol:

[Wgoodrich]

Glad you were successful, see you on your next project.

Wg

[Anonymous]

i`ve been thinkin about it and i better ask this question. The thermostat had four wires. two black at bottom and two red at the top. one was for load and one was for line. i put both wires from box, black and white on both blacks and then hooked new wire, black and white to both reds and ran it to heater. this was correct , i hope. no fire yet :lol:

[Wgoodrich]

This thermostat must be a 240 volt rated.

There is two connections on that thermostat marked line. This is where the black and white wires coming from the panel is connected. The two connections on that thermostat marked load is where the black and white wires going to the heater is supposed to be connected.

Good Luck

Wg