Hi all, new poster here. I am about to renovate my kitchen. Both my wife and I cook a lot of food and we uses spices, roast and fry, so we need 4 to 6 hobs in total, and a very capable hood.

I initially planned to have a 15" Wolf gas cooktop and a 15" Wolf induction cooktop side by side on a kitchen island I'm constructing. So, I bought the Kitchenaid 36" commercial style hood KXI9736YSS, and the Whirlpool/Kitchenaid 1200 CFM inline blower UXI1200DYS. I have bought the 15" Wolf gas modular cooktop. But while looking closely at the 15" Wolf induction cooktop, I noticed that the two units are 8" and 6" diameter, and they don't have a bridge function. Wolf also makes 24" and 30" induction cooktops that have 10" and 8" hobs, which will be better when I use large pans or griddles. In addition, both the 24" and 30" hobs have the bridge function for the two 8" hobs, so I can use them together if I use a rectangular griddle. The 24" cooktop has 3 hobs (10", and 2 x 8") and the 30" cooktop has 4 hobs (10", 2 x 8", 6").

So, I'm thinking of getting the 24" or 30" Wolf cooktop, but that means I have to get a wider hood, probably 48". I'm not sure how easy or hard it will be to sell the hood and blower that I've already bought. So, I looked for a 48" island hood from the Whirlpool brands (Whirlpool, Kitchenaid, Jenn-Air, Maytag, Amana, etc) that will be compatible with the inline blower that I've already bought, to reduce the additional expense. But they don't make one in 48". Does anyone know if 48" (or 45" to 52") island hoods from other brands that will be compatible (in terms of electrical connections and controls) with the whirlpool blower? I am not to bad with a soldering iron if I need to make the controls work, if it's not too complicated.

If there are any other ideas that would help, please recommend them as well. Thank you.