I need 220 at a 110 outlet. I found that 220 needs 3 wires, black red
and white. The white always goes to the silver screws and the black
and red are hot. The problem it says in my book that the green screw
is the ground. But I dont need a ground, so I just hooked the red
wire to the green screw. The outlet worked fine when I tested it, but
when I shoved it in the wallbox, it sparked and blew the breaker.
That wasn't supposed to happen and the wires are tight. Here is how I
wired it (below).

At first I thought I had a bad breaker so I held the breaker tight so
it would not blow. I figured if there was a crossed wire it would
just burn the bad part of the wire off. But it still blew. This is
making me angry. I pulled the outlet back out of the wallbox and now
it works again. Maybe I will just let it hang out of the wall since
it works that way but want to find out why.


BLACK [] [] WHITE (to silver screws)


O RED


Dick