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Originally Posted by dad911
Nota, if you want to do it right, picture of both ends would be good, panel and outlet box.. Need wire size, breaker size, gauge of wire(awg) size of conduit, current demand of appliance.
What year was house built? 1980's and before, emt served as the ground in florida. Ive fouind some emt corroded so bad, or loose connections in the walls, that GFIs don't work. I've been pulling new grounds, or running new homeruns back to the panel when possible.
Also, If the conduit is running through concrete, I strongly recommend pulling new wire(s). I've seen some so corroded so bad they no longer conduct, and spalling (concrete guys) splicing wires and covering with cement.
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HOUSE BUILT IN 55
three wires in the box red black are hot white return or common
and the FLEX STEEL TUBE IS A GROUND
hooked to a new meile convection wall oven [got a SUPER deal from habitat for humanity store] THEY ASKED 800 BUT DISCOUNTED TO 400 THEN 200 AFTER IT SAT
I GOT IT FOR A 100 , IT WAS 3 K LIST NEW but a few years old UNUSED
so I want to do the hook up to spec to not damage the new oven
NO FLOOR SLAB WIRES
everything runs up in the attic and down the int walls
old fuse panel bypassed to a newer breaker panel
oven needs 20 amps but shares a circuit with the glass top 4 burner cook plate
it is on a 60 amp breaker for them at the main box so that should handle the loads
of both wires are plastic coated and look to be replaced when the breakers were redone [after andrew 92 ? likely]
the cook top has only the 2 hot wires so may add a ground to the metal base on the cook top a ground to the box flex tube