I’ve made several posts of my adventures in the crawl space of my new (old) house. Today I ran a new stove feeder, and pulled many hundreds of feet of old cable- phone, TV, Ethernet, and cable out from under the house:
All that wire, now replaced with WiFi.
Leave all that stuff outside–you can have a meth-head feeder.
I’d have left it in, so you could upgrade your WiFi by replacing it with Ethernet. Seriously, who thought that shoveling off all of our data transfer needs into the radio spectrum was a good idea?
I bought 25’ of 8-3 cable by mistake. That was an expensive error…
(I ended up needing 40’ of 6-3).
I didn’t check the cable, but I would bet it’s all 10baseT.
If I ever need the speed of a wired network, I can easily run new cable. But, I doubt I’ll ever need to do that.
For your stove, I’m assuming. Yeah, 40 amp is normal for a stove.
I’ve got a box in my closet filled with crap like that: old phone cords, Ethernet cables, coaxial cables, some of those filters you had to connect to your phone jacks to use DSL, some of those adapters for connecting coax to the old twin lead antenna connectors.
That’s what confused me.
But, the way this was wired, they had 8-3 running to a subpanel, and then a 40A breaker and short run of 8-3 cable to the stove, and then two other 15A breakers for the microwave and a counter outlet. BUT - the breaker at the main panel was 50A. So the 8-3 was not really large enough.
I had to relocate the subpanel (we moved the stove across the room). When I realized that they had undersized the cable, I yanked it out and ran the 6-3 to the subpanel. A short run of 8-3 goes from the breaker to the range outlet.
Oh, and - I fixed the screwed-up grounding they had done. It’s still not 100% to code, but it’s better than it was.
Most of us have boxes of this random stuff. Some are things like AC adapters for things we no longer own, and have no idea what they’re for.
Want some more?
No thanks; I’ve already donated many such things to Goodwill.
Salvation Army rejected my old electronics donation and there was some good stuff in there. Had two programable tv remotes with charging stations that were still upgradeable, I just threw them out.
I’m pretty sure that Goodwill, or least my local affiliate, accepts old electronics. If not for resale, at least as electronic waste, which can generate some revenue.
I have a box full of VGA cables. And another box full of RJ-11 phone cords, which aren’t quite as obsolete but I’ll probably never use them again.
Induction stoves are often 50A, sometimes 60A.
Yeah. A couple moves ago I jettisoned big tubs of CATV stuff, Ethernet stuff, POTS stuff, carburetted engine stuff, analog audio recording stuff, etc.
Good riddance.
I always have a box full of old obsolete cables, adapters, hard disks, extension cards and so on. Every few years I bring this box to recycling. Lather, rinse and repeat a few years later.
I’m not surprised, but I haven’t worked as an electrician for quite some time so haven’t had the occasion to hook up an induction. For the OP, I just assumed a standard stove.
I’d been living here for a year before I discovered the chimney in the kitchen. It was behind drywall and a layer of thin, fake brick.
The brick stand next to it, for a wood burning stove, should have given me a clue.
The chimney doesn’t stick out of the top of the roof?
