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Default Dryer breaker

On 9/8/2015 4:54 PM, dpb wrote:
On 09/08/2015 3:21 PM, wrote:


Years ago the dryers and stoves only used 3 wire plugs and the neutral and
frame were hooked together, but that is not the correct (code) way to do it
now.


It can also create a very dangerous shock hazard.

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Which is why there's been a news story every night over it for the last 60+ years...oh, yeah, "not!"


Yah, putting in a proper 4-wire circuit is soooooooooooooo much more expensive.