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Convection Oven Installation

Bob joins electrician Larry Dana in the kitchen of the Quechee farmhouse as he installs the Kenmore Elite 30" self-cleaning convection oven. The oven requires 220 high-voltage current as it will be delivering a high degree of heat. Larry recommends hiring a licensed electrician for this kind of installation. Bob underscores that, as a rule of thumb, you should always connect your ground wires first. Next Larry connects the neutral wire saving the potentially hot for last. Rather than putting the junction box back in the wall after connecting the wires, Larry leaves it floating behind the unit to facilitate servicing later on if it becomes necessary. In addition to the aesthetics, another advantage of the flush controls on these newly designed appliances is that without the clutter of toggle switches and buttons, they are a lot easier to read and to keep clean.

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Convection Oven Installation

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" We're gonna get started today with the oven and Larry you're just basically getting started now what kind of current do you have to provide to a big oven like this this is high -- 22220. Volt yes and just what is 220. Who taught me is a high -- is 2110s. Put together that's pretty simple. And what you're doing essentially is delivering. A lot more power to a unit that needs it because it's providing. A high degree heat right that's correct. Now is this a do it yourself project if you've got folks that are doing their own installations at home you recommend that they attempt this no I don't -- If it's like threatening ought to get a guy who's a professional to do it for you -- that's correct -- tickets through the steps here I mean what kind of a cord is it that's coming out of the wall. Vernon 83 cord. What from the power panel in the based patent and but it into this splice box. That. And this morning -- he year's line coming from the oven itself. See you get the cable in there you tighten it up -- Which wires do you hook up first. The ground wire up first to the junction box. To this green ground -- Bottom. And it's kind of a rule of thumb that you always. Connect your grounds first that's correct I always do my grounds. Number it's an added safety feature and then my next -- I do as neutralize Iraq. And those would be the white wires so you save. The potentially hot for last yes. OK now in an oven connection like this injunction blocks. Doesn't necessarily go back into the wall right it just stays loose back there yeah we've fallen silent the the unit can be set out on the floor -- needed in the -- needs servicing yet."

" Now the more tedious part has to do with the trim et cetera but this is what one of the new kenmore elite. Ovens it's a self cleaning convection oven and that's that great feature the convection. You see the fan back there -- that really allows you to cook a lot of different things in the oven at once -- really distributes the heat all around. And I think what a lot of people like about these new designs is the the fact that all the controls are flush because of electronics you really don't have any more knobs and toggle switches or buttons or whatever this can be easily cleaned and easily read."

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