What To Do With These Wires

[dmullen]

I have removed the useless vent hood (doesn't vent to the outside of the trailer) and it had a purple and a white wire coming in from both sides (total of 4) that were spliced into a black wire and a white wire on the vent hood. What is the correct way to connect these wires now that the vent hood is gone...just wire nut purple to purple and white to white?

(I have a Fantastic Vent almost directly over the cook top so the vent hood was useless.)

Thank you for reading.

[dmullen]

Update...We traced the wire that was used to connect the vent hood that was removed. It starts at the control panel which is by the door, runs down the side underneath the false floor in the cabinets and connects to the slide control panel. The vent hood was at about the halfway point on that route.

[Nagrompj]

dmullen wrote:
The speakers are on the opposite side of the kitchen area.

You did fine! The wires you where working with were white and one had a purple stripe. The speaker wires are colored "purple, blue, orange" or whatever with a black stripe on one of them.

[dmullen]

The speakers are on the opposite side of the kitchen area.

[Boon_Docker]

jessjosh61 wrote:
Our trailer uses purple and white wires for one of the speaker channels for the audio system. That may be what you have here if the stereo is installed near here.

Bet that was the OP's problem then, a sound track got stuck in the vent. :B

[westend]

jessjosh61 wrote:
Our trailer uses purple and white wires for one of the speaker channels for the audio system. That may be what you have here if the stereo is installed near here.

Now, I have no idea what the OP had or has. "Crimped together" typically means a connection is made rather than attached alongside. If the OP had the speaker wires connected to the two power phases, there would be a lot of buzzing, for awhile, at least.

[jessjosh61]

Our trailer uses purple and white wires for one of the speaker channels for the audio system. That may be what you have here if the stereo is installed near here.

[dmullen]

Nagrompj wrote:

dmullen wrote:
Used the proper size wire nuts and connected purple to purple and white to white, taped for extra security and tested everything. No problems. Thanks again to this forum for the assistance.

Good job!
Just a thought. Why not install a light in place of the range hood. It would cover up the hole where the wires came out and give light over the stove.

I am putting a brown baking pan over the entire area where the hood was installed to catch any steam that the Fantastic vent might not take care of. I should be able to put a light towards the back of the area that won't be above a burner.

[Nagrompj]

dmullen wrote:
Used the proper size wire nuts and connected purple to purple and white to white, taped for extra security and tested everything. No problems. Thanks again to this forum for the assistance.

Good job!
Just a thought. Why not install a light in place of the range hood. It would cover up the hole where the wires came out and give light over the stove.

[westend]

The original vent hood had a black wire and a white wire. A purple wire and a white wire coming in from the left side was crimped together with the black wire. A purple wire and a white wire coming in from the right side was crimped together with the white wire. The controls for the vent hood were on the hood, fan and light.

You must have one or both of those wires, either purple or white, not connected to anything else. Otherwise, you would now be shorting the two phases together if your first statement is correct.

[Boon_Docker]

Good to hear that everything worked out for you.
Thanks for letting us know the outcome.

[dmullen]

Used the proper size wire nuts and connected purple to purple and white to white, taped for extra security and tested everything. No problems. Thanks again to this forum for the assistance.

[dmullen]

Gaffer222 wrote:
Install a 12 volt light where the fan hood was. You should however first check the manual that came with the stove as it should show minimum distance to combustible surface. Once you removed the fan hood you now have a combustible surface exposed above the stove top.

What I have done is installed a baking sheet on the cabinet bottom where the vent hood used to be, problem solved. I am also lucky on my camper that there is a large distance from the cooktop to the bottom of the cabinet.

[Gaffer222]

Install a 12 volt light where the fan hood was. You should however first check the manual that came with the stove as it should show minimum distance to combustible surface. Once you removed the fan hood you now have a combustible surface exposed above the stove top.

[enblethen]

Reading the wires coming from the panel you will find which is the hot. There is no easy way of identifying polarity on the other set unless OP knows what they feed. If it is a lamp, the shell will be the negative and the base pin would be the pin.
In his statement it sounds like the field side was reversed. It is possible that connecting up color to color may reverse or straighten out a manufacturer defect in wiring.