Home & Garden - 21 November 2006

My home has a 3-prong electric outlet for the range and my new stove came with a 4-prong cable. The guys at Lowes in the electric department recommended that I change the cable instead of the receptacle. So I bought a 3-prong cable...

My confusion is that the 4-prong cable has color coding (white,red,black, and green-for ground), but the 3-prong cable doesn't.

How do I connect the new 3-prong cable? I heard that the "white" cable (happens to be in the middle of the three cables in my range) has to connect with the middle of the cables in the 3-prung cable. Is that correct?

I was also told that because there is no fourth cable, to leave the grounding screw alone in the range (where the green cable used to be connected).

Any help appreciated. I need to connect this range soon or there will be no turkey for Thansgiving :-)

Thanks much!
Jose

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