I installed an oven in my house. The oven was on a 30(? it's been a while) amp circuit, and the new oven kept blowing the breaker that had kept the old oven happy.
The stove was on something like a 60 amp circuit, so rather than try to rewire the panel, I patched the oven into the stove's circuit, because it was way over capacity.
That said, the wires were beasts: single-strand copper, maybe 6 gauge (over a tenth of an inch in diameter) and did not want to bend at all. I ended up going back to Lowes three times to get bigger connectors. In the end it was a box of aluminum half an inch wide, with a tube down the middle and a screw-in on the side to hold the wires in place.
I got it done, but it was a pain from start to finish. And of course with that many amps at play, every time I touched anything I first went to every single person in the house to tell them what I was doing, and not to go near the breaker box.
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The stove was on something like a 60 amp circuit, so rather than try to rewire the panel, I patched the oven into the stove's circuit, because it was way over capacity.
That said, the wires were beasts: single-strand copper, maybe 6 gauge (over a tenth of an inch in diameter) and did not want to bend at all. I ended up going back to Lowes three times to get bigger connectors. In the end it was a box of aluminum half an inch wide, with a tube down the middle and a screw-in on the side to hold the wires in place.
I got it done, but it was a pain from start to finish. And of course with that many amps at play, every time I touched anything I first went to every single person in the house to tell them what I was doing, and not to go near the breaker box.
I would not want to do that for a living.