Every appliance must be grounded for safety reasons, and your Traeger grill is no different. We'll discuss the importance of grounding your investment below.
Why is Electrical Grounding Important?
Grounding helps protect you and your home from the dangers of damaged circuits or electrical overloads. Without electrical grounding, stray voltage could start a fire, damage appliances, or shock bystanders.
When you're adjusting your grill's electrical components, you must secure your grounding wires to your grill using metal-to-metal contact.
What Color Are the Grounding Wires?
Traeger grills have several different wires; grounding wires are either green or green and yellow.
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How Do I Install or Reconnect My Grounding Wires?
Your grounding wires should already be attached to your Traeger grill. On the rare occasion that your grill doesn't come with grounding wires, please contact our Customer Service.
If you've received a replacement part for your grill and don't know how to reconnect your grounding wires, we're here to help.
Reconnecting Grounding Wires to D2 WiFIRE Grills
Please take the steps below to reconnect your grounding wires to your D2 grill:
- Attach one end of the green and yellow grounding wire to your main power switch harness.
- Connect the other end of the green and yellow grounding wire to your grill's auger bushing, using the metal loop to thread the auger bushing/self-tapping screw.
- Line up the auger bushing screw with the auger bushing groove.
NOTE: If the auger bushing screw is screwed in too tightly, your grill's auger may get stuck.
Reconnecting Grounding Wires to Touchscreen WiFIRE Grills
Please take the steps below to reconnect your grounding wires to your touchscreen grill:
- Ensure grill is off and unplugged.
- Remove the hopper side service panel by removing 6 screws (2 located on top of the access panel, 2 below the hopper side rail, and 2 on the bottom of the access panel).
- IMPORTANT: In order to proceed, customers will need to remove the hopper service panel. Follow Using a Manual Impact Driver to Access Hopper Interior below before following the replacement instructions steps.
- Pro Tip: Some customers find this easier if they remove the P.A.L Rail first.
- Follow steps in Replacing an AC Wire Harness on Touchscreen Grills on how to connect all other wires outside of the grounding wires.
- Remove ground ring terminal from hopper grounding stud.
- For grills with version B of power supply board: Remove power supply ground connector.
- Connect ground ring terminal to hopper grounding stud.
- Power supply ground
- For power supply version A: bend power supply ground backwards and zip tie it, if it is not already zip tied.
- For power supply board version B: connect to spade connector.
- Follow the next steps in Replacing an AC Wire Harness on Touchscreen Grills to reconnect the rest of the harness.
- Replace the cover and attach it by securing it in place.
- Replace and secure the hopper side access panel.
For further assistance, please contact Customer Service.