Timeline for Safe to use 220V electric clothes dryer when building has been bridged down to 110V?
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| Sep 23, 2019 at 18:37 | comment | added | JRaef | Heh... clothesline. Forgot about that! When I was a kid in the suburbs of San Francisco in the 60s, that's all that we used. I don't think we even got a dryer until the 70s when my mom went back to work (outside the home.) | |
| Sep 22, 2019 at 0:08 | comment | added | Vikki | @JRaef: A laundromat, or ye olde clothesline. | |
| Sep 21, 2019 at 1:39 | comment | added | JRaef | One could plug a hand held hair dryer in nearby and aim it at the intake vent of the dryer in "fluff mode". It would still take forever, but slightly less time than without it (assuming a breaker doesn't trip)... ;-) Use a laudramat until it is all fixed... your dryer will not work. | |
| Sep 20, 2019 at 18:44 | comment | added | Nate S. | @Kaz, naively (without any wiring changes) trying to run the dryer on 110V won't present any danger -- the 110V parts of the dryer will work fine, and the 220V parts won't run. It's equivalent to running the dryer in air fluff mode, as JACK mentioned. | |
| Sep 20, 2019 at 18:18 | comment | added | Kaz | "Will it work" is a different question from "is it safe". Think: "am I safe in this building, given that people around me will try to run their dryers on 110". | |
| Sep 20, 2019 at 17:58 | comment | added | JACK | You're good for "air fluff" | |
| Sep 20, 2019 at 17:44 | comment | added | user3757614 | The panel and spinning is done via 120V. I think the heater is the only 240V equipment in there. Look around for a local laundromat. | |
| Sep 20, 2019 at 17:44 | comment | added | Nate S. | @AllInOne, yes, that's not unexpected. Many dryers use 120V for the motor and controls, and 240V for the heating elements. All the 120V parts of the dryer will still work, but the 240V parts will not work at all, so I would expect that it won't produce any heat. | |
| Sep 20, 2019 at 17:43 | comment | added | AllInOne | I tried the dryer for a moment and the panel lit up and the drum spun as expected. Did not test to see if it got hot. Have updated question to reflect this fact. | |
| Sep 20, 2019 at 17:41 | history | answered | Nate S. | CC BY-SA 4.0 |