On Thu, 20 Jul 2017 00:30:20 -0700 (PDT), trader_4
wrote:

On Wednesday, July 19, 2017 at 6:14:08 PM UTC-4, Sandarlene wrote:
replying to AE Todd, Sandarlene wrote:
I hooked my 240 dryer up with a 12o plug but the heater for the dryer would
not work. Did I hook it up wrong? It ran okay otherwise.

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Well, he did say it would work very slowly, didn't he? With
no heat, it's going to work very slowly. In other
words, such attempts, which I'm surprised would work at all,
are futile. You can't run a typical 240V dryer off a 120V
circuit.

The timer and motor will work on 120v L/N and if he rewired the dryer,
moving one side of the heat over to the neutral it would be warm but
not hot. (600-700w vs the 2400-2800w typical).
If he just tied both line sides together the heating element is zero
watts.