Hey guys, sorry for my ignorance but I am just a mechanic not an electrician. I had a short in my fuse panel on dryer circuit (upstairs) at home, old house had only #12 wire on circuit ,so I disconnected the wires from the fuse panel and installed a new #10 wire circuit from breaker panel downstairs to dryer receptacle. I wired as follows:
2-30 Amp breakers(stabloc type)
White neutral to neutral bar in box
Green to groung bar in box
Black to breaker
Red to breaker
Tested receptacle with 120 volt light , white and black wires, light will illuminate
white and red wires, light will illuminate: therfore I have 2-120V circuits at receptacle: therefore 240V circuit, Correct?
Now for problem, short fried my dryer. Bought new dryer from Home Depot, plugged in, no power at all. Took off lid off new dryer for quick look and discovered that the White neutral wire from dryer cord inside dryer was cut off and shrink tubed(factory) not hooked up to anything
Question: how can dryer work on 240V (or 120V) circuit with white neutral wire not hooked up? Does not the neutral have to be hooked up in order to get AC current flow? Only red and black wires are hooked up to power circuit and green wire is grounded to dryer case. It would seem to me that the issue is not my house wiring but lack of neutral wire hookup in dryer.
Can anyone shed light on this issue for me.
Thanks to all for any help you can give me. Elast:blink:
2-30 Amp breakers(stabloc type)
White neutral to neutral bar in box
Green to groung bar in box
Black to breaker
Red to breaker
Tested receptacle with 120 volt light , white and black wires, light will illuminate
white and red wires, light will illuminate: therfore I have 2-120V circuits at receptacle: therefore 240V circuit, Correct?
Now for problem, short fried my dryer. Bought new dryer from Home Depot, plugged in, no power at all. Took off lid off new dryer for quick look and discovered that the White neutral wire from dryer cord inside dryer was cut off and shrink tubed(factory) not hooked up to anything
Question: how can dryer work on 240V (or 120V) circuit with white neutral wire not hooked up? Does not the neutral have to be hooked up in order to get AC current flow? Only red and black wires are hooked up to power circuit and green wire is grounded to dryer case. It would seem to me that the issue is not my house wiring but lack of neutral wire hookup in dryer.
Can anyone shed light on this issue for me.
Thanks to all for any help you can give me. Elast:blink: