Hello Everyone,
I want to install a Whirlpool UXT4030AY range hood. The range hood is direct connect. However, there is an electrical outlet inside the cabinet above where the range hood is to be installed. So, I want to splice a plug to the range hood; then, just plug it in. The plug has black, white, and green wires. The range hood has much thinner wires: two white (twisted together) and one black. Also, a ground screw. I'm thinking I can connect the plug's black wire to the hood's black; the plug's white wire to the hood's two whites; and the plug's green wire to the hood's ground screw. Does that make sense? Thanks for any help.

That will work, just go buy a premade power tool cord, it will already have the plug on it, but all connections need to be inside the electrical box on the hood, there also needs to be some form of stran relief so the cord does not get pulled out of the box.

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I am rather curious on how this will all fit together. Mainly because the back of the range hood sits flush against the wall that would hold outlet you are planning to use. Unless the outlet is located not exactly behind the unit placement. But then a flexible code about a range burner would be a NEC problem.
If located behind the unit I'm not quite sure if this is legal per the NEC as a plug is not considered a permanent connection. And not easily accessable. And a possible point that "could" fail with time. I do realize it is 1 in a 1,000,000. But I would rather see the properly sized Romex installed instead.
You do have the proper sequence in regards to the wiring hookup, color code wise. Having said all this, will it most likely work for the next 30 years ? Yes. Would I do it that way ? No.

The electrical outlet is located in the cabinet above where the range hood will be located. So, the cord will extend through the knock-out in the range hood, through a hole in the bottom of the cabinet, and into the cabinet itself, where the outlet is located.

so... it's not that difficult, then, to get a length of BX cable, connect it instead of the outlet to the power connection, and run the BX into the hood?

or chunk out about 2 square inches of wall by the outlet box, correctly run a Romex down, and patch the wall?

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Originally posted by IndianaGuy:
The electrical outlet is located in the cabinet above where the range hood will be located. So, the cord will extend through the knock-out in the range hood, through a hole in the bottom of the cabinet, and into the cabinet itself, where the outlet is located.

Thanks for the reply. {Once the location of an above range microwave, maybe?} Well that would make it easier and safer.
I still wonder about NEC 400.7 though. Uses permitted under "frequent exchange criteria" regarding pull & plug connections.
While you should never have a problem with your set up I still am unsure how the description of your work would or would not be restricted by this code codicil.
PS. The NEC does allow this type of set up with food grinders and dish washers, in fact some locals demand this type of hook up. And draw much more [start up] current as well.

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