Re: Strange Wiring


I have a clothes dryer which I inhereted. It has been working fine for
years until I moved it and the plug virtually fell to pieces (the
earth was the worst).
When I put on a new plug I realised that somebody had connected the
live to the Earth connection, The Earth to the Neutral and the Neutral
to the live pin!! How did this ever work?

It worked because the dryer is only concerned about the difference voltage between its internal connections and not where they connect into the house wiring. The plug fell apart because the earth prong was overloaded by the relatively large dryer heater current, between the dryer live and neutral and the plug earth and live prongs, which it is not sized to handle, resulting in excessive heating of the plug and embrittlement of its encapsulation. The miswiring was a hazard, just fix it.


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