My current electric clothes dryer was installed in early 80's, and I think I may have to get a new one soon. I believe that I will need to convert the
220 outlet to the newer style outlet and purchase a new dryer cord (not real sure why though).How do you make the conversion from the older style 220 plug to the newer style??
You would need to run a new line that contains four conductors instead of three.
However, they still sell three prong cords for dryers so you may not have to do anything.
If your existing dryer feeder happens to be a four wire cable, you would connect the four wires accordingly : hot-hot-neutral-ground. If it is only three wire, as FDR said, just use a three wire cord on it. The dryer probably doesn't come with a cord so you may want to swap the one from your existing dryer
How do you make the conversion from the older style 220 plug to the newer style??
In all liklihood, the existing cable has three wires. There is no way you can make it four wires without running a new cable. If it happens to be four wires it is a simple matter to put a new outlet in. If you have an easy run to the breaker box it is not too difficult to put a new four wire cable in.
If you are stuck with the existing three wire cable, follow the directions that come with the dryer. As someone suggested, you may want to pull the cord off the old dryer instead of buying a new one.
In alt.home.repair on Sun, 24 Jul 2005 21:30:11 -0500 "stevie" posted:
In order to use the current outlet. There is no point to doing both of these things at the same time.
Replace the new cord to match the old outlet, or replace the old outlet to match the new cord. If they don't match already.
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Just wanna get this straight...
I have a three pronged dryer chord that I want to convert to four. There is a red, white, black and then a green cord. Is this green chord a ground wire? There is a green wire already coming from inside the dryer and screwed down off to the side. Do I want to screw the green cord from my new four pronged power cord to that screw? Do I leave the green wire that is coming from inside the dryer attached to that same screw?
Thanks...
You connect the green from the dryer cord to the green screw on the dryer, then the white to the neutral, and the two hots (black and red) to the two hots on the dryer. This is all assuming that the feeder cable feeding your existing dryer is a four wire cable
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