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Wall oven microwave combo wired incorrectly. How should I go about discovering what was damaged?

Home Improvement Asked on August 29, 2020

I have a KitchenAid wall oven microwave combo unit. After having some cabinets redone the oven was reinstalled but was wired incorrectly. The 240V circuit going to the oven is only 3 wire (so two hot and one neutral/ground), but the oven wiring is 4 wire. The oven neutral was connected to one of the hot wires (it had been Sharpied black but that had worn off), both oven hots (black and red) were connected to the other hot wire, and the oven ground was connected to the ground wire.

When the breaker was flipped, the oven started making a buzzing sound and we could smell something burning. I’m assuming the neutral for the 120V circuitry being connected to a hot was not good for said circuitry. I’m also assuming the two 120V circuits making up the 240V circuit being in phase was not good either.

I rewired the oven to have the red and black wires each connected to a hot, and the neutral and ground wires both connected to the circuit ground/neutral. At this point, no buzzing sound but also nothing on the control panel.

I replaced a decent sized fuse that was accessible from a side panel on the oven that sounded like it had been spent when I shook it, but that didn’t fix anything.

How can I fix this? Where should I start testing to try and determine what part(s) were compromised?

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