[Shop-talk] Wiring a UK appliance in the US?

[Pat Horne]

One thing I forgot to mention is that all 50 hz non-motor equipment I’ve run across runs fine on 60 hz. Running 60 hz equipment on 50 hz is not as likely. 

Peace,
Pat

Pat Horne 
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On Nov 12, 2017, at 5:19 PM, Scott Hall <scott.hall.personal at gmail.com> wrote:

There's no clock or timer--just heating elements. I suspect it's not contemplated by Miele that it'll ever run on 60Hz, or they'd have said so.

So I guess the question is can I do it anyway?

> On Nov 12, 2017 6:00 PM, "Roland Wilhelmy" <sentenac.rw at gmail.com> wrote:
> A transformer wont change 50 Hz to 60 Hz, only change voltages‎. The clock and timers may not care if it is 50 or 60 Hz if they run on DC. You'd have to check that. 
> -Roland
> 
> Sent from my BlackBerry 10 smartphone.
> From: Scott Hall
> Sent: Sunday, November 12, 2017 2:26 PM
> To: Mark; Shop-talk at autox.team.net
> Subject: Re: [Shop-talk] Wiring a UK appliance in the US?
> 
> This is the thing she wants:
> 
> https://www.miele.co.uk/domestic/hobs-and-combisets-2473.htm?mat=07982380&name=CS_1212-1_I
> 
> I've been to U.S. Miele dealers. They don't stock it and can't tell me anything about it. Miele U.S. is slightly better--they can tell me that product exists and is not available in the U.S.
> 
> I found a guy in the U.K. willing to ship me one. 
> 
> It's definitely 240v, and I assume 50Hz (the web doesn't say, Miele won't say, but if it's in the U.K., that's 50Hz. I can't tell if it's 50Hz/60Hz). I know I can wire it to 240v. I'm less sure what the 50Hz/60Hz issue will mean.
> 
> I assume--worst case--I could buy or modify a transformer. But I'd rather just get a U.S. electrician to do it--these things suck a fair amount of power and if ever I thought, "hm, this'd be a good place to get a professional to do this", it'd be here. But I want to make sure the professional is up to snuff, too.
> 
> (The reason for this specific thing is the physical layout and that it has knobs. We have a range. It's a nice range. It weighs a ton and I had to pipe in a new (bigger) gas line for it. It's not going away. But she'd like to add induction. She'd like it to be vertically-oriented as opposed to horizontally-oriented in the counter. She'd like to control it with knobs instead of buttons. I agree with her on all those--the buttons are a pain in the ass, and this thing takes up less counter real estate. Exactly one manufacturer makes an induction hob with those specifications, and it's that thing. So...there it is. To offset this, she didn't even bat an eye about the 'need' for a four-car garage with a lift. So I'm coming out ahead.)
> 
>> On Nov 12, 2017 12:23 PM, "Mark" <mark at nashvilletn.org> wrote:
>> Scott,  It will be the 50HZ that might cause a problem everything in the US is 60HZ.  A lot of appliances are built for 50 or 60HZ but the Miele specs don't show it that way. If you haven't bought it yet then just buy the US 60 HZ version like here https://www.ajmadison.com/cgi-bin/ajmadison/KM6365.html  The 240/208 voltage spec is the same, you will need a big circuit to handle 40 Amp.
>> Mark
>> Nashville
>> 
>> 
>>> On 11/12/2017 9:34 AM, Scott Hall wrote:
>>> Miele induction top
>> 
> 

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