My brother just bought a Fagor range for his kitchen. The range came pre-wired(less the plug) with a red, black and green wire. The range is 240v, 15 amp. The wiring instructions read: red is hot (240v),black is neutral and green ground. Which is how it would be wired in Europe. My question is how do I wire this here in the states? Thanks.
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Best Answer
Does the range have 120/240 volt hookup instructions? They might be inside the access port where the pigtail ("cord") is wired into the range. The hookup instructions are the authority.
However, lacking any instructions, this is likely to work:
Connect the hot (red) to the U.S. red, the "neutral" (black) to the U.S. black wire. That provides 240 volts to the heating coils. Connect the ground to the green. Leave the U.S. white wire unconnected to anything in the range.
The range does not use 120 volts for anything (timer, appliance outlet), so the white wire is not connected.
There is a slight danger that the appliance manufacturer has somehow assumed that ground and "neutral" are at the same voltage. (They should not have, but there could be an assumption that ground to neutral is not more than a few volts different.) If so, connecting the range might blow an internal fuse or the house's panel circuit breaker. For this reason, do not plug the range into the outlet with the breaker on. Instead, after plugging it in, turn the range on at the breaker.
I tried to find a user manual, but Fagor's website is trying to be "smart" and routes my U.S.-based IP to something they think would be suitable. Alas, it persistently picks a Spanish language enterprise-wide "under construction" stub site.
http://www.fagoramerica.com/my_fagor/user_manuals still might be useful. Have a look with the specific model number.