Oven wiring question

tomco2000 · 2005-07-12T14:08:37+00:00

My single oven went out and the wife wants a double oven with oneconventional and one convection oven. The current oven is on adedicated circuit with #10 wire and a 30 amp breaker. There is nopractial way to change the existing wiring.The oven web site says the double oven needs to have #8 wire and a 40amp breaker. The maximum load stated is 8000 W. I have been told (byamateur electricians) that unless I have both ovens on at the same timeon high heat, I could run the ovens with no problems with the existingwire and breaker. They believe there is a big enough cushion built into allow this operation.I would appreciate any thoughts on this.

Jul 12, 2005 20 Replies

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Joseph Meehan 21 years ago

So what is the problem, they are not changing their story, it is the same every time you ask, it will be in tomorrow. :-)

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