How to connect an electric stove by yourself?

If you decide to purchase a new electric stove, then you do not have to spend additional funds on its installation, because doing it yourself is not difficult at all. In order to prevent elementary errors and do everything correctly, you need to study in advance useful information and installation rules for such household appliances. This is important, since a significant part of the new equipment fails in the first month after the start of operation precisely because of improper installation. To understand how to connect an electric stove yourself, carefully read this article, which sets out detailed installation instructions for people who do not have experience and special education in this area.

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Why is it better to prefer an electric stove?

Naturally, installing a gas furnace is much simpler, and the costs of using it are minimal, because it works on cheaper fuel than electric models. Despite this, the choice of an electric stove is considered quite justified for some reasons:

• Electric stoves consume much more energy than their gas counterparts.
• In addition, they do not emit excess heat, which means that in the heat you do not have to use additional air conditioning.
• They do not need powerful ventilation and regular maintenance.
• Electrical appliances are less flammable than gas appliances.

Important! Electric stoves are not as dangerous to health as gas stoves; they do not emit harmful combustion products into the air and do not absorb oxygen.

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How to prepare for installation?

To understand how to connect an electric stove on your own, you first need to carefully study the manufacturer's instructions and prepare carefully:

• Most of the models of such plates, offered on the market today, are designed for connection to a network with a voltage of 220 volts. In such cases, a three-core copper cable with a wire cross section of four millimeters is used for installation.
• In the shield, you will definitely have to install a special circuit breaker directly for the furnace, separately from other devices.
• It will not be superfluous to purchase a device for protective shutdown, which starts to work in case of power outages.

Important! Here you will need the help of a specialist, because working with a network in a dashboard is not only dangerous, but also not entirely legal. Only a representative of the housing department can remove the seal.

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Check the readiness of the wiring for connecting the device

What you need to pay attention to before connecting the electric stove yourself:

1. First of all, you need to check whether the wiring can withstand new loads. If the capacity of your new stove is greater than that for which the wiring in your house is designed, you will have to partially replace it. In this situation, it is better to lay a separate line so that the general wiring is not much overloaded.
2. The next point is a test of the ability of the machine located in the switchboard at more significant loads.
3. Check for a residual current device or differential circuit breaker.

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What are the schemes for connecting electric stoves?

Installation of an electric stove in our time can occur as follows:

1. Connection to a network with one phase. In the device itself, you can find the contacts with which it connects to the network. The cable that comes with the kit must have three cores so that it can be connected to a single-phase network.

Important! Remember that each vein has its own characteristic color and the main thing is not to get confused. Blue color - a core for zero, yellow-green - grounding. First we connect the ground wire, and then zero to the terminal.

2. Connection to two-phase networks. This method is rarely used. And here the situation is slightly different than in the first case. The cable in the kit is four-core: the phases will be the first two wires, in the third and fourth - zero and ground, respectively.

Important! First you need to ground the cable, and then using a special jumper for the neutral wires to connect them.

3. Working with a three-phase network, in principle, is not much different from the previous version, but there is a difference. The cable goes here five-core, and three of them will be phases, and the other two will be zero and ground. And then we do everything according to the already known scheme.

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Grounding rules for electric stoves

Grounding is a rather important point when installing such household appliances. This is especially true for the most powerful plates.

The easiest way to ground such a technique is to use the existing grounding that applies to the entire house. You can find out if your shield is connected to a common ground in the housing department. If the answer is positive, then it remains to connect the ground wire to the shield. It is not difficult to recognize him, as a rule, he is the fattest.

If you live in a private house, you will have to do the grounding yourself. This is easy to accomplish:

1. You need to drive three rods into the ground near the house and connect them with a metal rod.
2. Then attach steel wire to it and lay it in the housing.
3. Actually, then the ground wire is connected to it.

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Rules and features for connecting an electric stove

Next, we will consider how to properly connect the electric stove to the mains.

The principle for all the most popular models today, namely Zanussi (Zanussi), Beko (Beco), Bosch (Bosch), Electrolux (Electrolux), Gorenje (Burning), Hansa (Hansa), Indesit (Indesit), Ariston (Ariston), Samsung, Greta, Hotpoint, is similar:

1. The first step is to connect the power cable, trip protection device and circuit breaker. The connection must be made from an independent circuit breaker that operates automatically. The voltage in the machine should be higher than the amount of consumption of the plate.
2. The second step is to install the outlet. Unfortunately, power outlets are not present in all kitchens, since they are designed specifically for the operation of the most powerful equipment. Check how high-quality the current outlet is and whether the number of contacts in it corresponds to the number of wire strands.

Important! The following features of the outlet design are significant:

• Connect a new outlet only with a copper cable.
• It can only be installed on a perfectly flat and unheated surface.
• Do not place it close to the washstand, pipes, door and window openings.
• At the end of the installation, make sure that the contacts are connected correctly.

3. Step Three - open the back panel. Under the small cover you will find special terminals for connecting the cable.
4. Fourth step - we fasten the cable in order to avoid its sudden disconnection. Secure it with a special clip on the case.
5. The fifth step is to install copper jumpers. Connection can occur in different ways, everything will depend on the number of phases. After choosing the wiring diagram, install the jumper in a special block and tighten each screw carefully.
6. The sixth step is to connect the wire to the terminal block. More often, the wiring diagram is located directly on the back of the stove body.

Important! Remember, first we connect the ground wire, and then it is neutral, and phase wires at the very end. It is extremely important here not to confuse anything else - the stove simply will not work.

7. Seventh step - gently tighten the clamping screws, close the lid and tighten the bolts.
8. The eighth step - before connecting the stove to the network, carefully check everything again. Turn on the disconnect protection device and the circuit breaker, and also check that the outlet is working. Connect the device to the network.

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Remember that installing an electric stove on your own is quite traumatic, so several times think carefully and weigh it carefully. If you have any doubts, it is better to entrust the installation to a specialist.