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Fatman

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I'm installing a new cooktop.
Here's my dilemma. I have an old home made in the early 60's it had a push button cook top.
After i took it out I see there are 4 wires going into it. red, black, white, and bare. They had cut the bare back and hadn't even used it.

My new cooktop has red, black, green and white. According to the install instructions, red to red, black to black, green and bare attached to the grounding screw on the box.

What do I do with the green from the cooktop? Cap it? Tie it into white? What do I do?
 
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Trial and error. If your junction box sets aflame then you've guessed wrong and should start over after judicious dousing.
 
In the UK we use:

Red - Live
Black - Neutral
Green/Yellow / Bare - Earth

Not that anyone cares :D
 
Zombie said:
What's a push button cooktop?
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An ancient piece of cooking technology. It was the wave of the future back in the early 60's.

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I replaced it with this:

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Retails for around $1500, got it for $550 off ebay, it was a demo, minor scratching in the stainless, barely noticeable.
 
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