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Originally Posted by t walgamuth
Aside from being convenient to unplug for service I cannot see any safety advantage to adding a plug into the circuit. Seems better to hard wire to me. Adding a plug seems to me to be adding a weak link and one more place to potentially fail in the middle.
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Ovens are hardwired and come with a whip factory installed. They may exist, but I have never seen or hooked up a hardwired stove. All stoves used to come with a cord attached, but now they leave it up to the customer to do that to save themselves a few bucks! Same with disposals, dishwashers, and some furnaces. If you think a plug is a potential failure area, you should see what an amateur with wirenuts can do.
