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Electrical Safety: Turn Off Power at Breaker Panel

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INSTALLING ELECTRIC COOKTOP. DIY Range or Stove Top Installation Instructions.

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Before starting any work on the cooktop, ensure the electricity to the appliance is completely turned off. Locate your household's main electrical panel, typically found in a utility room or garage. Identify the circuit breaker labeled for the 'stove' or 'cooktop,' which is often a 30-amp breaker. Flip this breaker to the 'off' position to cut power to the cooktop.

Goal: Safely disconnect electrical power to the cooktop

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prior to doing any of the work on this cooktop, you definitely want to have the electricity turned off to this cooktop. So, you're going to have to go to your electrical panel and make sure the breaker is off to this cooktop cuz there's uh an electrical connection come to this thing and it's pretty hot. You don't want to get shocked by this thing. So, we're going to walk you over to the electrical panel, show you how you turn this thing off. So, now I've located my electrical panel right here and it's actually in the laundry room and the electrical panel is all labeled and we've got a breaker switch right here that's labeled to the stove in the cooktop. And all we're going to want to do is just make sure that thing is flicked and into the off position. Definitely don't want that cooktop on when you're working on it. So, just um locate your electrical panel. Make sure that that thing is turned off. Uh and this breaker switch is turned to the off position. Here's a look at our electrical panel right here. And all the labels. All we've got one labeled right there that says stove top and it's a 30 amp breaker. And we're just going to we flipped that thing to the off position.

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