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just got a used electric stove, put a 2 ploe-50a breaker in the panel but the stove will not work. checked the power at the outlet and got 120v across the hot and nuetral but not across the 2 hots. what did i do wrong????????
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You should have 240 volts across the 2 hots, and 120 volts across each hot to neutral. So it sounds like you either don't have 240 volts service to your home, or, the breaker that you installed is not installed across both buss bars in your panel. At your main panel, see if you can read 120 volts from each hot leg to ground. If you don't read the power from each hot, and if you have 240 volt service to your home, then try moving the breaker to a different location in the panel.
Here's a link that will discuss in detail how this circuit should be wired and what readings you should get. It discusses a dryer circuit, but a stove circuit is identical except for a stove uses a larger gauge wire and breaker.
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