I'm installing a Maytag radiant cooktop. I know I should probably have gotten it installed professionally, but I'm just replacing an older model that died, so I figured it couldn't be that tough. Yeah right. The unit has black and red "hot" conductors, a white neutral and a bare copper ground wire. The cable coming from the wall has only the black, red and white - no ground wire. What do I do with the bare ground from the unit? Does it need to be removed from the unit; do I need to connect it to anything else? Thanks in advance for any answers.
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Is there just a cable coming out of the wall or is it in a junction box? If you have enough cable skin back the jacket and look for that bare ground - It "has" to be there! Sounds like 10-3 or 8-3 romex. That bare ground "has" to be used. It is your equipment ground wire.
If it is not there you need to pull in a #8 ground wire be it bare the full length or green in color. Use a ground clamp and ground it to a cold water pipe either at the sink or in the basement to a cold water line, the other end splice to the bare in the cook top. -
Thanks a lot...
I'll look for that ground. I don't have a basement (I live in TX) and I don't have a crawl space. And I can get to a water pipe in the kitchen, but it will be pretty difficult since my sink is basically in an island - I could get to it by going through the rear wall of the house then into the half wall behind the sink cabinets, but I'd have to go through every stud!! Will I have to run the new ground (if necessary) to a copper pipe in some other part of the house? And is there a max. allowable run for a ground wire?
Thanks again. I hope that ground wire is there...Comment
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No max run for the ground. I hope the ground is there too! good luckComment
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