I bought a dual-fuel COSMO range, which is apparently foreign (Chinese?) made. The oven is electric and the cooktop is NG.
Anyway, the instruction manual says it must be wired with a "three-phase, four-PRONG cord." (Three phase? Residential? Is that how the Eurpoeans do things?)
My house was built in 1961 and has a three-wire range configurement, No. 8 cable going from the main panel to a three-prong receptacle in the kitchen.
OK so far...?
I uncrated the range and looked at the back, from which protrudes a three-wire armored cable. Not four wires, but three.
A tag on the cable says "no neutral required," and I see two hots and a ground.
Why the instructions say I need four prongs? God knows.
Anyway, can I buy a three-pronged plug and attach the hots on the sides (either side, either hot) and the ground on the top?
I ask that, assuming that the third wire on my existing three-wire range cable in my house is connected to the ground bar in the main panel. (Ground and neutrals in the main panel's kind of the same, right, since don't they go to the same grounded busbar?)
Thanks much.
Range voltages: 220-240V/50-60Hz, 35 Amps
link to installation instructions: http://www.homedepot.com/catalog/pdfIma ... cb7aa8.pdf