On Fri, 21 Dec 2018 17:01:02 -0500, wrote:

On Fri, 21 Dec 2018 14:25:58 -0500, Clare Snyder
wrote:

On Fri, 21 Dec 2018 10:18:31 -0600, Mark Lloyd
wrote:

On 12/21/18 9:17 AM, wrote:

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Electric dryers pretty much never come with the cord.

I know mine didn't. Maybe that has something to do with the fast that
some houses have 10-30 outlets and some have 14-30.
Current Canadian code requires the 4 wire plug.
My last 2 came with cords.

So you just paid for a cord you couldn't use and you were still
connecting a cord half the time.


No. Read my last post - and my house, built back in '74 had a 3 wire
drier plug on a 3 wire plus ground cable - whern I got the new drier I
simply replaced the outlet. That way I only had to "fix" it once - as
it is very unlikely the code would ever "revert" to using 3 terminal
outlets.

The 3 wire outlet went to the garage for my welder/ box heater. (all
of which are straight 240 volt) My old Emerson welder had a 120 volt
(replacement?) fan which the previous owner had (apparently)
installed - connected from one line side to case ground -

The outlet has since been replaced with a 4 pin and the old Emmerson
180 replaced with a Lincoln 250 AC/DC tombstone. My ols 12- volt
compressor motor was replaced with a 240 motor with 4 pin plug. The
cord from the old (first 4 wire) drier went on the 4500 watt "box
heater" so all my 240 volt stuff fits the same outlet without
adapters, and I have a "splitter" box that plugs into my 240 volt
welder extention cable to allow me to get 2 circuits out to the shed
or yard when I need to run power tools out there (led solar powered
lights in the shed) - and I can use the same cables/adapters to
connect to my 8Kw generator if required. (with an adapter to the 240
voilt 30 amp twist-lock plug on the generator)
So, rather than having paid for cords I didn't need, it just saved me
buying one more cord for my other stuff.

For testing 3KVA UPS units I also built another "splitter box" with 2
120 volt 20 amp twist-lock outlets that plugs into the
compressor/welder plug.

I can connect any of my 240 volt stuff to the house or generator,
as well as connect my generator to the house (interlock) panel using
the same cords and adapters.