I'm about to install an electric oven in our house to replace an existing gas oven. The oven's installation instructions state that 8AWG wire should be used to power with 40A breaker protection. Ok, makes sense.
Here's the question: The oven has factory installed leads running out of the oven via flexible conduit. There are two hots (a black and a red), a neutral and a ground. The two hots are #12 wire, and the neutral is #16! Is this safe to use, or should I re-wire to use #8 into the oven? The leads are probably about 5-6ft runs.
Thanks!
-Eric