Plugging into the electric dryer outlet
It's been a while since I last asked a question on this forum & I did try to see if the topic had been covered through lots of searches, but nothing turned up. As electric cars gain in popularity, ...
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Effy wrote:
Isn't a dryer outlet wired on both legs? If so you do not want to plug in your rv. You'll fry stuff fast.
You can wire the thing, any which way, you'd like.
Where the problem came in, was with people hiring professional residential electricians who wired the similar looking 30amp/120vac RV outlets for 240vac.
As for an old style genuine dryer outlet install, that would have been a blessing in disguise, cuz then the unsuspecting consumer wouldn't have been able to plug in to it. There's a slight difference in the ground pin that shouldn't allow it to fit.
