I had an electric range with a 220v power outlet, I recently had a gas line ran and purchased a new gas range,

Question

I need something that converts the 220v outlet to a 110v outlet. I am in the US. needs to be small enough to fit behind the range.

Answer 1

the 220 outlet if ran with a nuetral and ground can easily be wired to a 110 outlet- if there is no nuetral than you would need to use the one hot leg and convert it to a nuetral and mark it white both in the plug and in the electric panel , if you dont know electrical the best way is find a handy man expierienced in it it should cost somewere in the 100 dollar range for a simple repair of that natureand would be legal for no fire hazzards

Answer 2

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I had an electric range with a 220v power outlet, I recently had a gas line ran and purchased a new gas range,
I need something that converts the 220v outlet to a 110v outlet. I am in the US. needs to be small enough to fit behind the range.

Answer 3

You may already have 120 volts. Some ranges require a dual voltage system. 220 volts for the burners etc...and 120 volts for the control circuit. You might just have to cap one off. Many clothes dryers have that configuration too. Change the 2 pole breaker to 2 single pole breakers. Take one of the wires and hook it to the single pole breaker and the other will go to the neutral bar. Cap off the extra one if there is one. Now change your outlet and make sure that the wire that went to the neutral bar is connected to te silver terminal on the new receptacle. The wire that is connected to the breaker will go the the gold (hot) terminal. Take the old ground wire and ground it to the new receptacle. I don't know if that is code, but it should work as long as the wires to the old range were sized big enough to handle the current to the new gas range. I am sure they are since the control circuit for a gas range draws very little current. You may need to reduce the wire size with a pigtail. Wire color doesn't matter because the electrons do not know the color of the insulation. Just identify them accordingly.

Answer 4

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Answer 5

First of all unhook the 220 line from its breaker (in electrical cabinet) and take out the line (if possible. Then run new wire (lighter wire for the 110 circuit) and put in a new 110 volt outlet, also a new breaker for that line when you install. All in all, call an electrician as this really is not something you should be doing yourself.

Answer 6

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dean's method it stupid and illegal. if the outlet has a neutral wire then the conversion is fairly easy. you can use the existing wire but you will have to change the breaker to a 1p 20A. cap off the unused hot wire in the panel and in the outlet box. use a filler plate to blank off the unused breaker space in the panel. If you don't have a neutral wire then you will have to relabel one of the hot wires as a neutral. identify the wire in the box and wrap it with white tape. then in the panel, identify the wire and move it to the neutral bar. you may want to use pig tails of 12 ga wire to connect to the new recepticle as it will be very difficult to attach 6 ga wire correctly. if you don't know what I mean by any of the instructions here then you are in over your head and you need to call out a professional.

Answer 7

There is no adapter made, nor would one be legal if it were. Hire an electrician to do the job correctly. The people advising you to do the code violating conversion are flat wrong. Never take electrical advise from untrained and unqualified people.

Hint: the voltages in question are 240 and 120. The others don't even know that much about electricity.

Answer 8

I would just have a 110 outlet installed. It is a pretty simple job and probabaly comparable in price to purchasing a transformer.

Answer 9

Your old "220" outlet will have at least two wires
plus ground.
The wires will be larger than needed, but that's no problem.
You can :
Mark one of the existing wires as a neutral
Install and connect a 120V. Breaker in the panel
install and connect a 120v. outlet in the exisitng box.
This wastes breaker capacity and room in the panel,
but it's a safe 'quick & dirty` fix if you want to do it.

Answer 10

No converter needed, simply wire in your new 110 / 120 volt plug using 1 hot leg and the neutral leg from the 220 V wire. Best to have an electrician do this for you.