The stove is only going to draw a certain amount of amps no matter what. But If the nameplate on your new oven calls for 6-3 then it may have a higer amperage draw than normal. Im sure.The Nationael electric code callas for a minimun of a 40 Amp 8-3 nm ! I have wired hundreds of new homes and have never had any problem using 8-3. Gas prices here are costing us triple the price to have it as it is for our usage. Do you by chance or anyone by chance know how I determine (depending on the stove I get) what would be the proper amp/wire ? any help on this would be appreciated as this is the month I finally am gonna get my electric stove and go for TOTAL ELECTRIC. with your comment I wonder what would be proper. but that the stove wouldnt give us the same power as using the 50amp/6-3. The guy did however say that we probably could get away with a 40amp/8-3 wire. I am not sure if that would change the plan or not. However now we are just gonna go for a flat top (who wants to go through the hassle of trying to clean a burner) a regular electric flat top. Originally when we checked into the amperage needed and wiring needed we were looking at a slide in electric stove. Am I right In my thinking of how to hook it up to the circuit breaker? So I have the black and the white in the circuit breaker and only the ground is in the bus bar. With my electric water heater it was 10-2. But in the service box the white is with the ground in the bus bar. I know there was a white, black,red and ground. Then more when I bought this house 10 years ago. Did they used to wired with something like an 8-2. So even though that is a 10-3 some would consider it a 4 wire? Just making sure that it isnt anything different than I know it to be. do the white and the ground go together in the hot bus bar as the sp 20 amps are wired? I know the white as the neutral and the black as the hot. When I hook the wire to the circuit breaker it will be dp.
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