Grounding a stove top

[kimagray]

Hello,

I just moved into an older house and replaced the stove top. I think it needs to be grounded because I have received a shock three times when I touched it or my microwave oven next to it. The last time was a doozy because my hands were wet and I was trying to get a fork off the stove. I felt the electricty all the way to both my elbows.

Pleas help. I love to cook, but now I have a slight fear of the stove!

Thank you,
Kim Gray
Canyon Lake, Texas

[jeff1]

Hi,

JMO!

Disconnect the power to the cook and do not use it until you have it checked out, this is dangerous!!

A wire, element, switch could be bleeding power to the cooktops frame giving you the shocks. Have an appliance tech check the unit, power wires, ect to see what is involved in correcting this problem.

I just moved into an older house and replaced the stove top.

Still under the warranty? Make that call!!

jeff.

[Wgoodrich]

Does this cook top have any 120 volt components like light bulbs, 120 volt clocks, 120 volt exhaust fan ? If this appiance has any 120 volt appliances and is fed by a three wire [two hots and bare grounding wire] then your bare wire used as a noncurrent carrying equipment grounding conductor is probably energizing the metal frame of this cook top due to the bare wire acting as a current carrying neutral. This is why we call for a 4 wire connection separating the neutral [insulated] from the grounding in a cooking unit.

Most cook tops do not have 120 volt components. If you have a cook top with no 120 volt components then Jeff is correct. If your type cook top has any 120 volt components then this most likely will be the problem needing a 4 wire branch circuit isolating the current carrying neutral from teh grouding conductor.

Curious

Wg

[jeff1]

Hi Wg,

Is there even a need for anything to be 110-120 volts AC on a cooktop any more?? Most ( maybe not all?? ) are 220 volt elements and 220 volt lights.

Most only have 2 lines a ground that I see...only one that can think of that may be different is a downdraft style cooktop?...

Just curious as well :)

jeff.

[Wgoodrich]

I have ran into a few that still used 120 volt compenents. One example I found is a 120 volt exhaust fan for a grill type cook top.

I suspect you were right about a leaking component, I just wanted to clearify we didn't run into one of those odd ones with a 120 volt component. You are also right most I have found are all 220 volt compenents. Then again when we think we have seen it all we find a new odd one pops up from nowhere.

Wg

[jeff1]

Then again when we think we have seen it all we find a new odd one pops up from nowhere.


That is what makes life interesting!! :lol:

jeff.