If you say 3 wire, are they giving you a 6-50 cord or the old school 10-50 range cord that is ungrounded hot-hot-neutral? The latter is usually what you get.
Range Cord Terminations
- Thread starter jmellc
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The 14-50 / 4-wire range hysteria has resulted in probably one of the most epic wastes of copper in modern history, by my calculations 1000 tons of copper per year is wasted on 4-wire range circuits. Miles and miles of #8 installed every year for at most just a light and a clock, and now ranges like this.
Ranges could easily have been designed to not need it at all since '96 (when we outlawed the 10-50).
Ranges could easily have been designed to not need it at all since '96 (when we outlawed the 10-50).
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- Tennessee NEC:2017
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- Semi-Retired Electrician
To be honest, I never checked as I never bought a 3-wire cord. I did see that all the packaging on the rack said either 3-wire or 4-wire.
curt swartz
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- San Jose, CA
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- Electrical Contractor
3-wire mean 10-50 L1-L2-N. 4-wire means 14-50 L1-L2-N-EGC.
Tortuga posted a picture of a 6-50 L1-L2-EGC
hbiss
EC, New York NEC: 2017
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- Little Falls, New York NEC: 2017
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- EC
Of course that would mean that a range or dryer would be compatible with any 3 or 4 wire receptacle making installations easier and safer. Whose responsibility is it to get manufacturers on board with that? PSC?
-Hal