AL CU Wire Connection: I'm assuming this is wrong...


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Old 06-25-19, 09:38 PM
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AL CU Wire Connection: I'm assuming this is wrong...

I just pulled out the 30 year old wall oven in my house. The wiring from the wall is aluminum and the wiring from the old oven was copper. The 4 pairs of wires were all connected with an AL-CU split lug but the connections weren't actually split. The aluminum and copper wires were just smashed together in the lug.

I am assuming that the new oven should have the wires actually split by the lug. Or am I missing something? The wires didn't show any sign of oxidation.

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Bob
 
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Old 06-26-19, 12:46 AM
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Are you certain you have aluminum conductors? In the picture it looks like "tinned" copper conductors. Look at the cut ends and see if they look like copper or take a knife and scrape the conductor to see if it is simply a tin plating over copper.
 
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Old 06-26-19, 09:58 AM
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It looks like it's aluminum. The cut ends are all silver and the ground wire has been stripped of insulation for about 8" and it's all silver too.

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On the Al/CU split bolts the wires are to be separated by the divider, not connected and touching together on one side of the divider.
 
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The pre-insulated connector like Polaris are nice . No need for all the taping required with split bolts.
 
 

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