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Default 220V dryer sparked on startup (3 wire) What to test?

On 11/14/2013 8:39 PM, Ralph Mowery wrote:
This looks like a 3 wire power cord. You need to unplug the dryer and open
up the back where the wire goes in. Look and there will be 3 terminals the
power wire hooks to. It will probably be the middle wire that is the
neutral and there should be a strap going from there to the frame of the
dryer.

While the dryer is open look around for any black or burnt areas near wires
or the internal electrical parts.



Three wire cord doesn't have a neutral.
Two hots and a ground.

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