On Tuesday, May 24, 2016 at 3:12:21 PM UTC-4, trader_4 wrote:
On Tuesday, May 24, 2016 at 1:19:51 PM UTC-4, leza wang wrote:
Hi all

my stove is a 1971 Moffat Maitre D, 30 inch, model 30 T 68, (45 years old!).


When I do my research, I found that Moffat was part of GE. unfortunately, I didn't write down who advised me to buy a Universal UB963 element when I gave them the model number. I am afraid it is incomplete advice, no mention was made of short prong, long prong. It was the wrong advice I think.

I'll call Reliance to ask about the prong length of that model. I only learned after the element was replaced that the wattage info was on the back of the stove.

Any help would be very much appreciate it.

Thanks a lot.

Unless you somehow know that stove was rated for a 3000W element, which
seems very unlikely, the answer is no. The wiring and other components
in the stove were rated for 2500W and 3000 can exceed the safe rating for
those. Possible issues with wiring to the panel and breaker too.

Can't she just cut 20% off of the 3000W element? ;-)