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Go to any hardware or appliance store and purchase a 4 prong to 3 prong adapter.
There is no adaptor available for this , you must change the cord set on the stove to a three wire cord. Remove the cover over the terminal housing. note the way the terminals are laid out and the way the wires are landed on them. Remove the wires from the terminals and the cord from the connector. Install the three wire cord and land the black and red wires back to the terminals. The white wire goes back to its' respective terminal, but you must also ground the stove chassis to this terminal with a bonding strap. This strap will go from the white wire terminal to where the green wire was landed in the four wire cord. This strap usually will come with a new stove, it is flat, made of copper with a hole in each end, if you do not have one, make it out of # 10 bare copper wire. Your stove manual may also explain how to do this.
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Look in the back of the range receptacle box that is in the wall. The three wires coming in should have a bare ground wire in the cable set. It wasn't brought to the receptacle because there was no place for it on the three wire receptacle. If you find it back there under a screw terminal just add another short piece of wire under the screw and then connect the other end of the short wire to the new ground terminal on the new four position receptacle. The wire should be equal in size to the size of the wire that exists around the ground terminal now. If the house is so old that the range cable did not have a ground wire in it the code allows a separate green ground #10 wire to be taken from the breaker panel box to the existing range receptacle. This wire is to be bonded on each end. At the panel end to the ground buss and at the receptacle end around the ground screw at the back of the box unbroken and then to the new four position receptacle ground lug.
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What is the most cost efficient and quick way to fix the problem if you have a stove that has a four-prong cord and an outlet that only takes three prongs?
buy a 3 prong cord and plug set at lowes or home depot and change the cord on the appliance.
What does the circle prong on a 3 prong plug do?
Ground wire
You just moved in your new home and the outlet for the dryer is a 3 prong your dryer is a 4 prong you should you do?
Change either the plug or the cord. The fourth prong is another ground. It would be easier to change the cord.
What is the difference between a 4 prong dryer outlet and a 4 prong stove outlet?
The four blade dryer plug brings a separate ground wire from the machine to the electrical grounding system. The three blade dryer plug depended on the neutral wire of the plug to make this connection.
Can you change a 2 prong plug with a three prong plug if you use a GFCI breaker?
NO - it is not safe to do that. A GFCI breaker is only a secondary safety device and your primary safety still depends on the earth wire in a 3-pin supply.
If your outlet is a 3 prong outlet can you hook up a 3 prong plug from your old stove to a new stove which has a 4 prong plug?
No you can not you will need to replace the plug with a 4 prong the same as the style of your oven and change your breaker to the correct Amp for your style of 4 prong plug
What is the most cost efficient and quick way to fix the problem if you have a stove that has a four-prong cord and an outlet that only takes three prongs?
buy a 3 prong cord and plug set at lowes or home depot and change the cord on the appliance.
What does the circle prong on a 3 prong plug do?
Ground wire
You just moved in your new home and the outlet for the dryer is a 3 prong your dryer is a 4 prong you should you do?
Change either the plug or the cord. The fourth prong is another ground. It would be easier to change the cord.
What is the difference between a 4 prong dryer outlet and a 4 prong stove outlet?
The four blade dryer plug brings a separate ground wire from the machine to the electrical grounding system. The three blade dryer plug depended on the neutral wire of the plug to make this connection.
Can you change a 2 prong plug with a three prong plug if you use a GFCI breaker?
NO - it is not safe to do that. A GFCI breaker is only a secondary safety device and your primary safety still depends on the earth wire in a 3-pin supply.
Is the wide prong on an electrical plug connected to the black wire?
No, the wide prong is neutral it is the white wire. The narrow prong is hot it is the black wire. The round prong (in a 3 wire plug) is safety ground it is the green wire.
What plug do you need for canada and america?
3 prong 120vac
How do you wire a 3 wire 240 volt stove to a 240 volt 4 wire feed?
Change the cord/plug on the stove to a four wire cord/plug. When installing the new plug remove the grounding strip that connects the center lug in the stove wiring block to the frame of the stove. Connect the white wire from the new plug to the center lug. Connect the green wire from the plug to the stove frame.
How do you make 4 prong male plug to 3 prong male plug?
This is something that should not be done. If this was to be done you would be omitting the ground which in point can make it unsafe. I recommend changing the female end of the system and making it a 4 prong.
What do you do if you have no outlet for your dryer's 2-inch 3-prong plug?
call an electrician!!!
How do you wire a 12v 3 prong flasher?
you take the socket and plug the flasher into it
