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Re: Whirlpool Dryer from USA

I am not an electrician but basically we wire most house circuits with 120vac single breaker. On our appliances that work on 240 vac we simply double up 2 120 volt circuits onto a double wide breaker. We run 2 hot 120 volt wires and they feed back off of our neutral bar on the electrical panel. In the case of this dryer the motor runs on 120 vac. So it is wired to the neutral wire(center) and one of the hot legs and it runs on a seperate circuit from the heater. The heater needs 240 volts to produce the massive 5000 watts of heat that this dryer demands. So 240 is fed to the heater through the timer to the centrifugal switch mounted on the motor. When the motor gets going the heater gets power. The heaters fuse is not mounted in that same circuit. It is mounted in the dryer door circuit. If the dryer gets too hot the fuse melts and the dryer quits. Just like when you open the door. So you see we have a probem here in that we need the 240 vac for the heating element to work properly but we need 120 volts to run the motor. That is why In a statement I made some moments ago(don’t you love it when your PM says that?)I could only imagine they remove the dryer cord and install a step down transformer to split the 240 volts to two 120 vac circuits with a neutral to feed back to source.

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Probably this large transformer has 2 hot legs and a neutral that connects to the electrical block where the pigtail would be mounted most likely.
I have never seen one but I can imagine that is how it works.Just a guess

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JohnnyMac Do you know where a person could get such a transformer and the wiring directions?

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Re: Whirlpool Dryer from USA

The motor runs on 120 volts and relies on the middle neutral wire + 1 of the hot legs on the 240 breaker.
Using straight 240 will burn up the motor.

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