When you purchase a new stove, you may be surprised to discover it was not provided with a power cord. Due to changes made to the National Electrical Code in 1996, stove manufacturers have no way to know if you have a three-prong or four-prong socket installed at your home, which means you have to install a cord on your stove to match your socket. Joining a three-prong cord to your stove is not much different than joining a four-prong, but a three-prong cord is not color-coded, which makes it a bit more complex.
Remove the hex-head screws holding the cover panel to the bottom back of the stove using a screwdriver or nut driver. Remove the cover to expose the 3 electrical connections on the terminal block.
Start looking for the circular opening at the sheet metal beneath the terminal block. Slide the horizontal ends of a strain-relief connector up through the hole, therefore the screws on the strain-relief connector are around the exterior of the stove.
Remove the 3 hex-head screws in the terminal block. Set the screws aside.
Slide the ring terminals on the ends of the three-prong stove cord up through the strain-relief connector. Line up the ring terminal on the stove cord’s middle wire with the middle screw opening on the terminal block. Thread one of the hex head screws through the ring terminal and into the terminal block hole. Tighten the hex-head screw.
Connect the stove cord’s right wire to the right terminal hole opening the terminal block. Connect the cord’s left wire to the left terminal hole opening the block. Use the hex-head screws to secure the left and right cord wires to the terminal block.
Tighten the two screws on the strain-relief connector to hold the three-prong stove string to the rear of the stove. Replace the cover and secure it using the hex head screws you removed above.
