Frigidaire FFEC3025UB Cooktop (Open Box)

I spent days looking online and in stores for a new cooktop when my old 48-year-old electric coil cooktop finally died. I settled on this cooktop. It arrived quickly, and was well packaged, and had no damage. I had it installed 4 months ago and am happy with it. The only negative is that it has two small burners in the two front spots. It would be a better design if they had a small burner on one side in the front and a medium burner on the other side in the front. For things where you have a larger size pan in which you are cooking something that needs stirring, like scrambled eggs or sauce, it is inconvenient to have to reach to a back burner to do the stirring. Also the 5th burner in the center with two sizes is really too large in both sizes for most pots and pans. It looks like it is more for a restaurant with huge pots. The other negative thing , but it would have been true for any cooktop I saw, was that I had to get a new 50 amp line run into my house with its own fuse box. That made getting a new cooktop quite expensive. I wish they still made the old coil cooktops without all the fancy things like quick boil that require the added amps. For those who may have worries whether this will fit in an old opening, my old opening was a little bigger than they recommended but smaller than the dimensions of the cooktop. I took a chance and it worked out fine. They provide two brackets for you to put on the underneath side of the counter to give the cooktop extra support. Because my counter was thin, the brackets extended below the cooktop and so would not have given extra support. But I found some things in a toolbox that filled the space between the bottom of the bracket and the cooktop. (One filler was an old lock from a locker). I also bought 4 more brackets at the hardware store so I would not have to worry at all about support all around the cooktop.. Another big worry I had ahead of time was that the power cord would interfere with a drawer under the cooktop. The specification picture makes it look like the cord is on the side, but it is actually far back, which I wanted. It would have interefered a little with the drawer but I found a hook to hold the cord against the back wall behind the drawers and so the fit is perfect.