One 220 supplying 2 appliances

[Sperry0204]

I have a standard 220 outlet for traditional stove/oven combo. Just purchased counter mount stove top and a in the wall double oven. Both require hard wire 220 power supply. Can i simply undo the current outlet and tie both appliances to the one supply?

 

[Milton Shaw]

Both those should be hard wired.. You should take the 50 amp circuit you have now and put a 4 breaker box on it and then run two 30 amp circuits to hard wire each appliance. Unless the code has changed you could mount the breaker box in one of the cabinets in the kitchen.. And its a 240 volt supply not 220 if you are in the USA.

 

[Norcal]

Most cooking appliances but not all require a 120/240V supply, then there is the issue of a 3 or 4 wire supply, more details are required.

 

[sberry]

Both those should be hard wired.. You should take the 50 amp circuit you have now and put a 4 breaker box on it and then run two 30 amp circuits to hard wire each appliance. Unless the code has changed you could mount the breaker box in one of the cabinets in the kitchen.. And its a 240 volt supply not 220 if you are in the USA.

It depends on the appliance. Basically if they got 14 whips they can be connected 2 to a 30, the larger ones with 12 wire can be connected to 50. One of the code guru's can tell what section cooking equipment falls under.
I will disclaim that this is general,,, so consider that but basically the only wire in a 50A range that is 50A is the cord, the rest of it is all smaller circuits hooked to it, The wire that is hooked to the element is sufficient for the load and heavy enough to short circuit 50A.
It seems the last oven and separate cook top I installed listed the kw for minimum wire size and had instruction regarding the max circuit it could be connected to. It's been a while.

 

[wyliesdiesels]

There are some code allowances allowing cooktop and wall oven on 1 50a circuit with reduced gauge wire.

As Norcal said need more info...

Post up appliance specs as well as info on type of existing outlet and circuit

 

[sberry]

Yes, I looked at the book for something a couple 3 yrs ago for, stumbled across it. As I recall the old I was working on was 3 wire 6 cable. I might have cheated a little and used an old dryer cable for run to a 240 cook top and ran a new 3 conductor for the oven which was 120/240. Ran a new wire for the dryer.

 

[nadogail]

it might get dicey if you try to run both appliances at full blast simultantiously

 

[sberry]

Its designed for it. It is rather rare though. In fact must be designed so running wire open will not be able to overheat the incoming wire. As I mention a rule of thumb earlier so to speak,,,, fwiw,, if the leads are 14 they they connect to a 10/30, if they are 12 then it needs to be 6 50 cable or 8 in pipe.
2 appliances 14 fed wont cook the 10 and 2 12 wont overheat a 6.