29 Apr
2012
29 Apr
'12
4:20 p.m.
On 29 Apr 2012 at 18:23, Mouse wrote:
[%] Are these "cooker"s? I'm talking
about the thing that produces
heat for preparing food in a kitchen. Often bundled into the same
appliance as an oven; indeed, without an oven there's a tendency to
call them something other than stoves - `hotplate' is the word that
comes to mind, though IMO that usage is a bit of a misnomer.
Both my wall oven and countertop range (Jenn-Air if it matters) are
permanently wired in.--a bit of BX (armored flexible cable)
connecting the appliance to the wall box. My water heater is the
same way, as is the heat pump, although the compressor unit has its
own fused outdoor disconnect in addition to the breaker in the
distribution panel. Something about "code"...
A bigger issue for me is that the wiring from the panel for these
heavy-current-draw appliances is aluminum (copper for the general
lighting and receptacles). Among the electricians here, there's no
consenus about what it takes to connect it to the copper leads of the
appliance. The old timers insist that ordinary wire nuts are fine--
some others insist on the grease-filled (gray) wire nuts. Nobody
advocates anything fancier (such as a copper pigtail with compression
fitting).
I remain puzzled. Obviously the right thing to do would be to
replace the wiring from the panel with copper, but I'm not about to
go through that agony.
--Chuck