Chris Stokes
New Member
OK not an electrician or a great speller either so bare with me.... OK so a 220 plug to a drier is just 2 110 lines. so if the person who installed the wires in the house split one of the 110 lines to run the rest or part of the house. you could just be over loading on side of the 220. so turning the drier on loop's the one side of the 220 ( one 110 line)that is still hot to the side that has blown. i have a fuse box and have had this problem for about 3 months now. Half of the house goes out but if i turn the drier on it spins but no heat and the rest of the house comes back on. so my quick fix idea is to take the 220 plug and swap the two hot wires. maybe the heat coil and the rest of the house is blowing my fuses and not the round screw in type the one that are about 3" long and round as a nickle. could this maybe work? i always thought every 220 was just to one outlet not split to power half of the houses 110, am i right on that at least? and why would it not blow the large fuses before the small screw in type?
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