connecting oven and cook top in germany

[zeddyblue]

Hi guys,

This is just a quick post to get your general opinion if I can do this myself or get an electrician to do it for me. I've provided some pictures below. Basically, I need to connect the oven to the power supply on the wall (230V, 1 phase). The rest seems pretty straight forward, connecting the cook top to the oven is colour coded and does not look that hard. The only problem I see is that there are 5 wires on the wall and 6 on the oven (although 4 and 5 look like they are connected). Any advice?? By the way, I am in Germany.

Cheers
Zeddy

this is the connection at the wall
http://www.flickr.com/photos/73778222@N00/1265623971/


this is the connection at the back of the oven
http://www.flickr.com/photos/73778222@N00/1266484306/


and the instructions on the oven
http://www.flickr.com/photos/73778222@N00/1266485418/


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[bernardgreen]

I think you have 3 phases in the wall connector.

Phase1 / Phase2 / Phase3 / Earth / Neutral

That is what I had for the cooker in my flat in Germany in a very similar junction box.

I would advise you to get local advice about connecting the oven.

The load ( kilowatts ) of the oven may require you use two or three phases to spread the load evenly between phases.

If my memory is correct it was a maximum of 2 Kilowatts per phase on my cooker supply.

 

[plugwash]

It looks like you have three phase in the wall so follow the instructions for three phase in the cooker instructions (bottom left diagram).

You need to work out which of the wires in the wall is neutral. Use your multimeter on voltage and you should find 230V between the neutral and any live and 400V between two lives.