How to Connect an Electric Range
If you want to remodel your kitchen, or just update your appliances, connecting the range is a simple task you can do on your own. With the proper tools and a little basic understanding of electrical appliances, you will have your stove up and running in no time at all. Does this Spark an idea?
Instructions
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Find the correct sized nut driver by fitting it over the nuts on the cover plate until they fit inside and loosen when you move the handle counter clockwise. Look at the cover plate so you know how to orient it when you put it back on, and remove the nuts. Set the nuts and cover plate aside.
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Remove the nuts from the three terminals just under the plate and the ground, which has no terminal. Be careful not to drop the nuts into the back of the range.
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Attach the ground first. The ground is green and attaches to a separate nut from the terminals. Now tighten the white wire into the central terminal and the black and red wires to the terminals on either side. Tighten them down with the nut driver enough so they do not move around, but do not push too far or you could break the attachments to the cord.
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Slide both sides of the strain relief or the cord clamp into the hole where you inserted the power cord, and tighten the screws just enough so the cord does not move or pull on the connections to the terminals.
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Hold the cover plate in the same position you saw it at the beginning, and insert and tighten the nuts that hold it down. Plug it in, and enjoy your new range.
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Tips & Warnings
Older homes have a three-pronged plug, while newer homes use the four pronged version. The difference in connections is that the three-pronged plug does not have a separate ground; it is part of the white neutral cord that attaches to the middle terminal.
Make sure the cord you buy is a range cord. Dryer cords look similar but do not have the same configurations in the plug and do not fit correctly.
