![]() ![]() I recommend you flip the breaker before touching the plug and receptacle. The L2 side is what you want to mess with.īefore you touch anything you need to unplug the clothes dryer, not just flip the breaker. We will just be adding a wire to the N bundle. Everything already on the Neutral gets left alone too. You see the L1 side of the diagram, leave that alone, it powers the drum motor, timer and buzzer, L1 is usually a black or blue wire. 3 lengths of wire, 2 of which need to be 10ga. ![]() If it has a 4 wire cord ignore the dedicated ground and now its like working on a 3 wire.Īll you need to know is how not to electrocute your self to death, get a heavy duty 3 way switch rated for up to 277 volts at 20 amps and a metal handy box, big or small handy box, it doesn't matter. You have 3 or 4 wires going to your clothes dryer. My additions are to the right side of the drawing where it says "voltage selector switch". Here is what it looks like after it has been messed with: Here is a typical clothes dryer schematic. Lots of reasons you might want to try this. You might want or need to use less power for some reason, "turning the heat setting down" just cuts off the heating element sooner, it still draws the same amount of power when it is on. You might want full heat to shrink pants back down. You wont have oppressive hellish heat breaking down rubber stretch bands in underwear. It can see it making clothing last longer too. Also operating at the lower temperature the heating element can last just about forever. ![]() Powering the heater element with 120 volt power as opposed to 240 volt power cuts the heater element power consumption down to about 1/4 of what it originally was. I keeps the clothes dryer operating normally every where except for the heating element. This is for any one who might want to add a heater element selector switch to their clothes dryer.įor any one who might want to run lower power in summer and switch back to full power for winter months or if you need your work clothes dry now. ![]()
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