I am changing out a 25-year old 240v cooktop with a new cook top. The old cooktop had 4 wires and the new one has 3.
After the white and green, the junction box has 1 set of 2 purple wires that the black wire from the stove was connected to and another set of purple wires that the red was connected to. Tracing this back to the breaker box, the 2 separate sets of wires are controlled by 2 separate fuses vs. one 2-pole 40A. The breakers are in pairs, but 1/2 of 1 pair of breakers feeds 1 set of purple wires and 1/2 of another pair feeds the other pair of purple wire. I'm not sure what to do.
- Can I attach the 1 black wire from the new cooktop to both sets of purple wires and thus both breakers? The breakers are in pairs.
- Do I need to put both lines on 1 2-pole, and then put the other lines on 1/2 (slim) breakers?
Breaker box:
