Has anyone wired this cooktop in their trailer?

[camper4life]

I need some help! My boss gave me this electric cooktop & sink combo from a bank renovation. I have already installed the sink portion and need help wiring it w/ 220 voltage. Please help, we would like to stop using our propane stove.

[Steve_Cox]

I need some help! My boss gave me this electric cooktop & sink combo from a bank renovation. I have already installed the sink portion and need help wiring it w/ 220 voltage. Please help, we would like to stop using our propane stove.

Those outlets in the campground that look like 220 volts are really 120 Volts 30 Amps.

[camper4life]

Is there any way I can wire it to function properly? I first wired it into 110 and got it to heat up to around 200 degrees but when ever my wife cooked on it,it gave her a little shock. I then grounded the unit but still a little shock. Could it be that the campsite wasn't grounded properly?

[Dale M.]

Could be a "fault" in internal wiring.... Maybe that is why it was free.... Personally trying to use a 220 volt devices in a trailer and camping facility that is only capable of supplying 120 volt is not best idea .... Stay with the propane, its simpler and safer and does not depend on possible defective/unsafe wiring provided by camp facility...

Dale

[KennethW]

May be get a two hot plates and mount them in the top?

[DrCrash]

Looks like a damn good way to kill yourself.
220 on a metallic surface with water and its already trying to short out.
I wonder why they got rid of it?
I'm thinking your boss doesn't like you.

[jandmz]

In a panelboard, a 120 volt circuit is connected between the hot lead of one leg and a neutral that is at zero (or ground) potential. Hooking between the two hot legs of the service drop gives you the 220 V circuit. The 220 V cooktop is designed to be connected to the two hot legs. When you connect it to a 120V circuit, the grounded neutral is connected to devices that are not designed to be grounded, so you end up with stray currents running through parts of the device that are not intended to be current carrying. I would not recommend using it that way. It could be a shock hazard.

Another post recommended installing 120V hotplate components. That may be safer, if you know what you are doing, and if you make sure to wire it so that the parts that are intended to be "dead metal" are bonded in such a way that they remain at 0 potential.

Otherwise, I would recommend sticking with the propane stove.

[rebapuck]

Looks like a handy unit. Get a licensed electrician to fix you up.

[len19070]

A 220V range top is fine....if you have 220V. Which most Campgrounds don't have.

This is a very nice unit.

I would contact a GOOD appliance repair shop and have the elements switched to 110V.

It can be done. And probably with out much trouble or expense.

Don't lower the River, Raise the Bridge.

Happy Trails

Len

And BTW. When asking advise on something like this, ALWAYS speak to an OLD GUY!