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
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