Electricalhelp
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- NJ
Do I need to install 2 - 15 AMP for this oven?
Electrical Requirement for Oven
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Do I need to install 2 - 15 AMP for this oven?
- Location
- Placerville, CA, USA
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- Retired PV System Designer
You need to install one 15A 240V or 208V circuit. It should be fed with a single 2-pole, 15A breaker.
Two 15V single pole breakers, even with a handle tie, will not comply with the NEC.
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- New Jersey
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- Journeyman Electrician
Since it has a 15 amp plug a 15 amp circuit or 20 amp circuit will work.
- Location
- Chapel Hill, NC
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- Retired Electrical Contractor
Many areas around here would have you install a single receptacle so a 20 amp circuit would need a 20 amp receptacle
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- New Jersey
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- Journeyman Electrician
Doesn't a 6-15R have a T slot which will accept either a 15 or 20 amp plug?
- Location
- Chapel Hill, NC
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- Retired Electrical Contractor
Its a 2 pole arrangement so I am not sure. Certainly a 20 amp 120V single receptacle will accept a 15 amp plug so you are probably correct with a dp 240v
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- Chapel Hill, NC
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- Retired Electrical Contractor
Yes it looks like it would work assuming there is a standard plug and not a twist lock
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- New Jersey
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- Journeyman Electrician
Looking at the OP again you're correct, since it's a twist lock a 20 amp circuit will not work.
Correct - the nameplate shown in the OP has the ‘L’. I left it out, sorry!
MAC702
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- Clark County, NV
He needs the twistlock anyway, but you have it backward. The 6-20R has the "T" to accept either 6-20P or 6-15P plugs.
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- New Jersey
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- Journeyman Electrician
Correct, the standard 20 amp receptacle has a T slot for either 15 or 20 amp plugs. I got the -15 and -20 mixed up. :slaphead:
K8MHZ
Senior Member
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- Electrician
What does the '2~' mean?
kwired
Electron manager
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- NE Nebraska
Probably 2 phase. Let the debate on how proper this is begin:ashamed:
K8MHZ
Senior Member
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- Electrician
I think you are right. The nameplate also says '15 amps per phase'.
kwired
Electron manager
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- NE Nebraska
I kind of assumed if it is "two pole" that what comes in one has to go out the other:blink:
MAC702
Senior Member
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- Clark County, NV
Not the worst Engrish you'll find in the manual.
- Location
- Placerville, CA, USA
- Occupation
- Retired PV System Designer
Note that they did not appear to call the 240 two phase.
It may not be standard in the US, but using that symbol to indicate 208 derived from two line conductors of a 208Y/120 three phase four wire source is not unreasonable.
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- San Francisco Bay Area, CA, USA
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- Electrical Engineer
Re: 2~
Elsewhere in the world, feeding something with two "hots", as in "2-out-of-3 phases" is referred to as "2 phase". That's because in those places, they don't have to contend with the fact that true "2 phase" distribution systems exist as they do here (in Philadelphia and a few other places). Since we DO have that possibility, we don't use the term "2 phase" to describe anything but those rare old installations and "2-out-of-3 phases" is referred to as "single phase" power.
Elsewhere in the world, feeding something with two "hots", as in "2-out-of-3 phases" is referred to as "2 phase". That's because in those places, they don't have to contend with the fact that true "2 phase" distribution systems exist as they do here (in Philadelphia and a few other places). Since we DO have that possibility, we don't use the term "2 phase" to describe anything but those rare old installations and "2-out-of-3 phases" is referred to as "single phase" power.
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