Ranco wiring incorrect from factory?

Juka087 · Jan 14, 2020

Hey guys

I ordered a ranco 111000-000 pre wired, and upon opening the box. I found that a wire had come loose. After looking at various diagrams on here, and watching videos on youtube. The controller does not seem to be wired correctly at all... can anyone tell me what is wrong here?

Big G · Jan 14, 2020

Sleepydoc · Jan 15, 2020

There are several ways of wiring a Ranco controller, depending on which model you have and what you want it to do. I'm assuming you have a 120V supply voltage to the controller, a 120V load and a switch that is normally open/off.

I can't see clearly what's going to what in the picture. Assuming the wires coming in are using standard colors (Green = ground, Black = hot, White = neutral)
- It looks like the wire cable on the left is the male/input side and the one on the right is the output/controlled side, is this correct?
- The two green wires coming into the box are grounds and should be connected - are they both going into the wire nut?
- there's a green wire going into the upper terminal block - where does the other end go? Is it in the right (common) terminal of the lower terminal block? is the bad wire that goes up towards the upper terminal block connected to the same terminal as the green one? It looks like they used a green wire as a jumper to connect the hot wire to the common terminal in the lower block. It will work just fine but it's sloppy practice to do so.
- The two white wires should generally be connected together; I'm guessing the loose wire is supposed to be in the same terminal as the other white wire behind it.

KrisReef · Jan 15, 2020

I could guess, but here's a link that might give the right answer.

Wiring a RANCO ETC-111000-000 Temperature Controller for Your Kegerator

Wiring a RANCO ETC-111000-000 Temperature Controller for Your Kegerator: A lot of homebrewers convert a chest freezer or refrigerator into a kegerator and they plug the fridge or freezer into an external controller to manage temperature. And if you want to go digital there is not a controller...

www.instructables.com

Yeah, it's for a different application but the wiring should be the same. HTH.

Looking at your picture, I believe the loose white wire should be twisted and secured with the other white wire in the same slot. At mentioned before, they used a short piece of green wire instead of black, IF you have some black electrical tape you could wrap the green wire with black tape and it would fix the wire color problem (which is sloppy as was mentioned) but it will function ok with green insulation color.