In my house the dryer trips the breaker so i started looking at the plug . I
found that iget 220 v across the hot legs but when i checked each leg to the
neutral i get nothing . So i ran a wire from the ground in another 110 v
outlet to the neutral leg in the dryer plug and the dryer ran for about 15
min. before tripping the breaker I should mention that it wouldnt run at all
untill i put the wire in the neutral lug from the other outlet

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On Tuesday, March 29, 2016 at 8:44:06 PM UTC-5, thomas hoy wrote:
In my house the dryer trips the breaker so i started looking at the plug . I
found that iget 220 v across the hot legs but when i checked each leg to the
neutral i get nothing . So i ran a wire from the ground in another 110 v
outlet to the neutral leg in the dryer plug and the dryer ran for about 15
min. before tripping the breaker I should mention that it wouldnt run at all
until i put the wire in the neutral lug from the other outlet
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On Wed, 30 Mar 2016 01:44:01 +0000, thomas hoy
wrote:

In my house the dryer trips the breaker so i started looking at the plug . I
found that iget 220 v across the hot legs but when i checked each leg to the
neutral i get nothing . So i ran a wire from the ground in another 110 v
outlet to the neutral leg in the dryer plug and the dryer ran for about 15
min. before tripping the breaker I should mention that it wouldnt run at all
untill i put the wire in the neutral lug from the other outlet

Ten years since this was posted, the breaker is still tripping. The rest
of the house burned down from an electrical fire....
All that remains is the burnt dryer and that damn breaker which trips
every 15 seconds, 24 hours a day, 365 days a year.....
(and the dead guy who keeps resetting it).

On Wed, 30 Mar 2016 01:44:01 +0000, thomas hoy
wrote:

In my house the dryer trips the breaker so i started looking at the plug . I
found that iget 220 v across the hot legs but when i checked each leg to the
neutral i get nothing . So i ran a wire from the ground in another 110 v
outlet to the neutral leg in the dryer plug and the dryer ran for about 15
min. before tripping the breaker I should mention that it wouldnt run at all
untill i put the wire in the neutral lug from the other outlet

Fix the neutral problem and start over.

On 03/29/2016 11:57 PM, wrote:
On Wed, 30 Mar 2016 01:44:01 +0000, thomas hoy
wrote:

In my house the dryer trips the breaker so i started looking at the plug . I
found that iget 220 v across the hot legs but when i checked each leg to the
neutral i get nothing . So i ran a wire from the ground in another 110 v
outlet to the neutral leg in the dryer plug and the dryer ran for about 15
min. before tripping the breaker I should mention that it wouldnt run at all
untill i put the wire in the neutral lug from the other outlet

Fix the neutral problem and start over.



I am pretty sure it's a fake posy but in the event it's real...

Yep...Properly fix the neutral first

Get the ****ing Electrician to do it right, or get electrician that is
electrician???

"thomas hoy" wrote in message
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In my house the dryer trips the breaker so i started looking at the plug . I
found that iget 220 v across the hot legs but when i checked each leg to
the
neutral i get nothing . So i ran a wire from the ground in another 110 v
outlet to the neutral leg in the dryer plug and the dryer ran for about 15
min. before tripping the breaker I should mention that it wouldnt run at
all
untill i put the wire in the neutral lug from the other outlet

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On 3/30/16 12:57 AM, wrote:
On Wed, 30 Mar 2016 01:44:01 +0000, thomas hoy
wrote:

In my house the dryer trips the breaker so i started looking at the plug . I
found that iget 220 v across the hot legs but when i checked each leg to the
neutral i get nothing . So i ran a wire from the ground in another 110 v
outlet to the neutral leg in the dryer plug and the dryer ran for about 15
min. before tripping the breaker I should mention that it wouldnt run at all
untill i put the wire in the neutral lug from the other outlet

Fix the neutral problem and start over.


Could never quite get my mind around what the "neutral" is in an
electrical circuit...

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On Thu, 31 Mar 2016 19:01:28 -0400, Wade Garrett
wrote:

Could never quite get my mind around what the "neutral" is in an
electrical circuit..

Neither could the NFPA, that is why it is called the grounded
conductor in the code. It is the conductor that carries the unbalanced
circuit current in a center tapped transformer derived service.
That does get tossed on it's head when the grounded conductor is in a
corner grounded delta service. It will still look like the panel in
your house (two hots and a grounded white conductor) but it is 3
phase. The place I see it most is sewer lift stations.

On 03/31/2016 06:01 PM, Wade Garrett wrote:
t over.


Could never quite get my mind around what the "neutral" is in an
electrical circuit...




Electrically it goes to the same place as ground but for safety purposes
the ground and neutral are kept separate.

The neutral wire is designed to carry current...in the case of a 230
volt drier, the heating element would go across the full 230 volts
but the 115v motor would go between one hot leg and neutral.


A completely separate ground wire would go to the case and in the event
a hot wire would touch the case, the breaker would trip.

Wade Garrett posted for all of us...


Could never quite get my mind around what the "neutral" is in an
electrical circuit...



Why did you get shocked? g

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