You want to second guess the manufacturers? After all the work and
research they went through?

More seriously, yeah, manufacturers are getting blooming cheap ass
these days. Like the inverter I got, the 12 volt DC leads weren't
heavy enough to run the inverter. Yeah, get larger wires.

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Christopher A. Young
You can't shout down a troll.
You have to starve them.
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"mcfly32" wrote in message
ups.com...
I'm about to install an electric oven in our house to replace an
existing gas oven. The oven's installation instructions state that
8AWG
wire should be used to power with 40A breaker protection. Ok, makes
sense.

Here's the question: The oven has factory installed leads running out
of the oven via flexible conduit. There are two hots (a black and a
red), a neutral and a ground. The two hots are #12 wire, and the
neutral is #16! Is this safe to use, or should I re-wire to use #8
into
the oven? The leads are probably about 5-6ft runs.

Thanks!

-Eric