Rewiring 8 wire stove plates to 4 wire

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Reece Murray

Joined Oct 4, 2016
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Sorry, I missed up the title. It's 4 wire to 2 wire.
So recently we've bought a new stove plate top which is a newer model than our current stove.
The problem arises that the new plates have the little red elements on top that heat up a bit faster and require their own connectors, which the old stove plates don't.

I've already sorted out the earth, so that's not an issue.

Though the old stove has 2 wires per a plate( 8 total for all 4 plates), one live, one neutral.
The new stove has 4 wires per plate(16 total) two live, two neutral. Two are for the little red plate and the 2 for the big plate.

My question is, can I bridge the big plates, and red plates lives together, and then neutrals together to fit them on the 2 wire setup?
 

EM Fields

Joined Jun 8, 2016
578
Sorry, I missed up the title. It's 4 wire to 2 wire.
So recently we've bought a new stove plate top which is a newer model than our current stove.
The problem arises that the new plates have the little red elements on top that heat up a bit faster and require their own connectors, which the old stove plates don't.

I've already sorted out the earth, so that's not an issue.

Though the old stove has 2 wires per a plate( 8 total for all 4 plates), one live, one neutral.
The new stove has 4 wires per plate(16 total) two live, two neutral. Two are for the little red plate and the 2 for the big plate.

My question is, can I bridge the big plates, and red plates lives together, and then neutrals together to fit them on the 2 wire setup?
Physically, you can, but the question then becomes: "Is the resistance of the two new elements in parallel less than the resistance of the original element?"
If the answer is "yes", then you need to determine whether the stove's burner controllers can handle the additional current.
 
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