connecting a stove

Frans Swanepoel

How do I connect a 3 prong stove to a 4 prong outlet?

danpik

Rewire the stove with a 4 prong cord.

Protocol.

You will need a 4 wire circuit as stated. It is quite dangerous to hook up a 4 wire appliance to a 3 wire circuit

gregzoll

Where did you pull that jewel up? Only difference is that you have a Ground now, not a ground bonded to Neutral.

As for the OP question, you will need to go to either Lowe's, Home Depot, Ace Hardware, and get the proper rated cord for your stove. That means if it is a 30 amp circuit, 30 amp cord, 40 amp, 40 amp cord, which also would work with a 30 amp circuit. As for changing the wiring on the back of the stove, you need to remove the jumper from the Neutral terminal, that grounds the chassis to Neutral, then attach the ground lug on the cord, to the green screw on the chassis, or at a chassis point. Then neutral and the two hots hook up accordingly.

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some of the "expert" advice on these forums is beyond comprehension.

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gregzoll

Should add, that a 3-wire stove or dryer is no inherently dangerous, than the same device connected via 4-wire. If that was the case, we would see a lot of incidents being reported, of all of those devices that are still connected via 3-wire.

Until I get around to it, my dryer is going to stay connected via 3-wire, which is fine under the rules at that time. Rules change for various reasons, and either get better, or if they decide that they made no difference, it will be noted in the next code roll.

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Protocol.

I should clarify. While it isn't always dangerous it can be dangerous if he doesn't do it correctly.It would be much safer to run a 4 wire circuit. I also don't remember claiming I was an "expert".

danpik

Please go back and read the first post again, He already has a 4 wire circuit. He needs to upgrade the stove to match it. The current stove is a 3 wire configuration. Besides, he was a one post and gone visitor so he/she is probably not even seeing this discussion