Only option is to run a new four wire feed. And you should be getting 120 from each hot to ground. You have a bad ground connection somewhere.
If if fix the ground, would it work? if I read correctly, ground ins not supposed to be used for current, right?Only option is to run a new four wire feed. And you should be getting 120 from each hot to ground. You have a bad ground connection somewhere.
Yes. You are not required to replace the cable if it is still good.If if fix the ground, would it work? if I read correctly, ground ins not supposed to be used for current, right?
Your ONLY option is to replace the cable with 8/3 or 6/3 cable. What you have is two conductor NM wiring which is not now or never has been code compliant. The only compliant cable would have been SE type or three conductor NM with no ground (all three conductors insulated). You were allowed the use the three conductor and tie the range ground to the neutral, but only if the power source originated at the main service.meksyk said:Good morning all, my knowledge in wiring is pretty basic and I have a situation:
Bought a house a little bit old, bought range brand new; plugged in, heating cooktop works, display and oven controls doesn't (so oven doesn't either)
the oven was conected to a 3 pins range outlet, measured them, got ~220 for hots, ~30 for a hot and middle conector; turned of breaker, unscrewed outlet and found 1 white 1 black but a paper wrapped solid copper ground wire in the middle, read somewhere that neutral could be used as ground, but not the other way around since I need 110V to run clock and display.
What can be done?
1) is rewiring the only option? (the breaker box is pretty far from the kitchen, i have no idea thru where the cable reaches it)
2) can a neutral be pulled from another (110V) outlet nearby?
3) in the breaker box can i remove the ground (assuming it reaches there) and conect it to a neutral to use as one?
thanks for all your imputs and advices
rgds, Meksyk
I just want to confirm something, since is an old two stories condo, it would be easier to get anoter oven instead of rewiring.Your ONLY option is to replace the cable with 8/3 or 6/3 cable. What you have is two conductor NM wiring which is not now or never has been code compliant. The only compliant cable would have been SE type or three conductor NM with no ground (all three conductors insulated). You were allowed the use the three conductor and tie the range ground to the neutral, but only if the power source originated at the main service.
Yes, it would be unsafe!I just want to confirm something, since is an old two stories condo, it would be easier to get anoter oven instead of rewiring.
The cable is a non metalic sheated with two shielded and one bare cable, since the 2 hots are already shielded and so is the cable overall, is there a reason I cannot at the breaker box connect the ground cable to the neutral instead of the ground line? would it be unsafe? I know they had a range there before, but i don't know if they modified something in the wiring