Dryer outlet?
Feb 01, 2008 by Flip-Flop Crazy Girl | Posted in Polls & Surveys
I impartial sold my dryer to a friend who has the old 3 prong dryer outlet but my dryer is the 4 prong plug....is there a plug or something you can put over the 3 prong outlet to make it a 4 prong outlet without having to swap the outlet all together?
you have to go to the arms store and buy a 4 prong wire and take your old wire off of the dryer then attach the 4 prong type. make sure that you unsheathe a diagram of the new outlet to take with you so the salesman can help you look for it. its just
Hi its me again | Feb 01, 2008
you indeed shouldn't adapt outlets for appliances or stuff like that..your friend should have checked the outlet beforehand
your friend might have to have an electrician upgrade the help line or change the outlet,should be done by someone
charmel5496 | Feb 01, 2008
No. You have to buy what is called a pigtail for 20 too 30 dollars that is the rope with the right head on it and change the cord. It's not that big of a deal. Good luck and God Bless.
Pee Amigo No 3 | Feb 01, 2008
you have to go to the metal goods store and buy a 4 prong wire and take your old wire off of the dryer then attach the 4 prong type. make sure that you receive a diagram of the new outlet to take with you so the salesman can help you look for it. its just
Hi its me again | Feb 01, 2008
Yes, but it costs more than a new three prong outlet will. I only just change mine when I moved. I found an adapter for $12.00, and an outlet for $3.95. I bought the outlet. Just turn the breakers off for your dryer and take the old one out and put in place of
TIMOTHY H | Feb 01, 2008
Your dryer in all probability requires a 30 amp receptacle. Your friend has 15 or possibly 20 amps at the outlet she wants to use. She will require an electrician to run a new line from the circuit breakers
Geodal | Feb 01, 2008
Is it possible to change an old dryer plug (three straight prong) to a regular outlet 3 prong ?
Oct 02, 2007 by elapoint78 | Posted in Do It Yourself (DIY)
Is it credible to change an old dryer plug (three large straight prong) to a regular outlet 3 prong (2 straight, 1 rounded) like the reasonable outlets with 3 prongs found in regular house outlets??
please help! our landlord gave us this
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This guy above me is a moron. Everything he told you is off beam. You can NOT do what you are asking. It is IMPOSSIBLE without running a new line to power the dryer.
Hex92 | Oct 02, 2007
My dryer outlet has 4 wires and the outlet is a 3 prong,how do I connect it?
Sep 30, 2007 by ajawind | Posted in Other - Electronics
The prongs on the dryer and the fortification outlet does not match up. This is a 220vac, can I connect a 3 wire to the dryer and leave one termial empty?
go to your neighbourhood hardware store and buy a different cord it's easy to change. Do not leave one terminal empty change the string for safety!!!! I've had to do it the last 2 times I moved.
momotwins | Sep 30, 2007
Plugging a dryer in an oven outlet?
by My Efficient Planet
I am effective right away and my new apartment has a proper (and all the ordination like tap water for it) for a washing system reactionary next to the oven but has no flat for a drying clique nor the swearing-in for the dryer (no air go out and no dryer outlet). I already have a washing make and a dryer (but no oven and no fridge, but that’s not uncommonly valuable here), and would like to overstress “laundry experience” and expense. Well-informed that someone is sacrifice 800$ for both dryer and washing instrument, what would be the wealthiest unravelling for me? Here is a tabulation of solutions I brooding about, I’d absolutely conscious of comments about price, viability and competence on them. I am categorically unselfish to new ideas.
1. Furnish both dryer and washing auto and buy a two in one contest on 120V, using the window for the air show a clean pair of heels; 3. Advance the dryer on top of the washing gismo (both jam by a front door) if the interruption permits it (I haven’t charmed any measurements yet), take the air way out of the dryer through the window (even if Canadian winters are unequivocally ice-cold) and cork the dryer in the oven’s outlet. (Is that even practical? the oven outlet is 14-50R while the dryer’s outlet is 14-30R… I’d be in want of an adapter… How menacing is it to chew a 30A max appliance on a 40A (or 50A, I’m not reliable) breaker?)
Thanks in approach! This place is bugging me completely a bit.
Above for your pickle – but 1) you cannot hold a candle to a natural (front loading) dryer on top of your washing motor car, because you couldn’t reach the controls on the washing gang. 2) You could venture in a two in one entity – but they’re not reduced. My sister had one in her basement – took an hour to get it there though – it was a tough crush. If you do get one – value carefully! The switchero with the outlets is dodgy concern – and you could end up paying for your apartment quarter damages should something go unseemly. The feeling I don’t recognize is if the two in one has two plugs or one – So you would deprivation to impediment that out. The only other choice I see as sensations would be to well-deserved overlay your clothes at about and take the wet laundry to the provincial laundromat for the drying part – you could bear your laptop?
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