Anonymous
February 13th, 2003, 06:42 PM
I have replaced my 10 year old GE wall oven with a new Kenmore wall oven. The old oven was wired into a breaker box located between the oven and the main breaker box for the house. The GE oven had five wires as follows: White to what appears to be a common area (the white wire from the house wiring is attached to the same area. Green to ground (the bare copper wire from the house wiring is attached to the same area), red to a single breaker (the black wire from the house wiring is attached to the same side of the breaker panel), blue to a separate breaker and black to the breaker directly beside it (the red wire from the house wiring is attached to the same side of the breaker panel as these two breakers).
The wiring instructions for the Kenmore (4-wire) are very straight forward. They show the wires connected in a standard junction box as follows: white to white, red to red, black to black and green to bare copper. They do not provide wiring instructions for an inline breaker panel.
Do I need the extra breaker panel?
It seems the old stove was wired using the panel to separate the 120 and 240 sources to run the clock/timer separately. A friend suggested that the new stove is a dual mode oven that separates the 120 and 240 voltage internally. Should I just use a junction box and forget about the breaker panel or is there a way to wire into the breaker panel?
The wiring instructions for the Kenmore (4-wire) are very straight forward. They show the wires connected in a standard junction box as follows: white to white, red to red, black to black and green to bare copper. They do not provide wiring instructions for an inline breaker panel.
Do I need the extra breaker panel?
It seems the old stove was wired using the panel to separate the 120 and 240 sources to run the clock/timer separately. A friend suggested that the new stove is a dual mode oven that separates the 120 and 240 voltage internally. Should I just use a junction box and forget about the breaker panel or is there a way to wire into the breaker panel?
