Island hoods are 28" deep...and probably another 1" to keep it off the back wall. Unless very high, you are going to be taking it in the forehead. Is this chimney hood requirement driven by your dislike of the wall hood design, or because you don't have cabinets or a soffit for hood support? If the looks of the wall hood are acceptable, you may want to look at making due with a 12" stainless steel chimney cover off the top (either made or sourced from another hood company) if that is the look you need, or with full width (48") stackable chimney covers. Here is a link that might be useful: ApplianceAdvisor.com

With all due respect, we *did* call Kobe (as noted above), and the tech representative they directed us to confirmed what our electrician told us. Possibly he was wrong, or they've since changed it. However, Kobe also provides a very detailed list of parts and packages in their manual, all of which were present and accounted for---and when we talked to the tech guy, he didn't mention any extra parts they'd forgotten to list in the manual, so I highly doubt the issue was that we threw away an unlisted part that would have resolved the problem. We knew that the hood cable was coming out of the internal wiring box on our model (as noted above!), since it's clearly listed and illustrated in the hood technical diagrams, but per Kobe the internal wiring box on our hood was not designed to serve as a junction box between the two cables nor was it designed to be accessed by the consumer. So if that's the box and clamp you're talking about, it is a wiring box that is there to bring the hood wiring together, not a junction box to connect this wiring to a house line. I'm curious to hear how you ended up installing it, though, if you did end up connecting the two cables inside of the internal wiring box. (We did not go that route because Kobe was clear that it would void the warranty on the hood if we opened the wiring box to thread an additional cable into it.) At any rate, our problem has long since been resolved to everyone's satisfaction, the project has been finaled, and we like the hood (and its electricity) very much!

"I bought a microwave to go above the range and vent outside" I'd exchange the over-the-range microwave oven for a countertop model and put a hood over the range. I think a cabinet with the bulky microwave beneath it will look very unattractive. Perhaps a model with a slim and shallow chimney (example) would look best. -- amateur

Hi there! While it isn't the most common, there have been times we have made a very long/large range hood and only need a certain size insert (for example 10' wide hood, only needing a 48" liner), so most often what we would do is install a stainless steel panel to allow everything to look smooth and coherent with the liner. Some people opt to add lighting to the "dead" panel space, and I would definitely recommend making sure you get the proper CFM for your space, but yes you can have an insert smaller than the range hood. Hope this helps!