splicing aluminum to copper elec wire

CharlesinGA wrote:

Gdetrailer wrote:
I am a bit shocked that any appliance would come with a aluminum wire lead.. Typically there is an access panel that gives you terminals so you can add a pigtail with plug of your choice or you add your own wire to the oven terminals.. Check to see if there is a terminal box..

Same here. Reading this thread thinking, who would make an oven with loose wires hanging out. You have stud terminals and hook a store bought cord with 14-50 or whatever is called for plug on it, and plug it in and slide it in place. Done. Something is not right here.

Charles

You are think in terms of a "standalone" stove with oven..



Which DOES have a electric box with terminals.

OP however is not working with a standalone stove, they are working with a "built in" wall oven..



Has no top burners and permanently mounts into your kitchen cabinets.

My parents home had the wall mounted oven with a separate stove top, when we replaced their original 1950s wall oven around 2000-2001 the original had a electrical box on the side of the oven..

The new replacement didn't, it came with a unterminated pigtail attached. My Dad had installed dedicated circuits and outlets for the stove and oven.. Made removal and replacement of the oven a snap and all we had to do was move the plug to the new oven pigtail.

Back in the 1950s, pretty much any wiring used contained Asbestos.. Which had a very high heat rating by default.. His house was built with all Asbestos wiring.

Modern day wiring contains no Asbestos and has a lower heat rating. For an application like a oven, the manufacturer would most likely have to use high temperature rated wiring.. So I suspect to prevent the use of normal Romex, they are providing a pigtail which will have a high temp rating..

That pigtail CAN however be terminated with a suitable amperage 240V/120V plug and outlet to make servicing and replacement much easier if one wanted to make life easier.