Accidentally plugged into 220v

DrewE wrote:

xnizstudio wrote:
Got the SINGLE pole breaker installed and the new converter and all appliances are working without damage .

Anyone who wants to argue about the dual pole breaker being wired incorrectly can read https://www.thespruce.com/installing-a-240-volt-circuit-breaker-1824649

A dual pole breaker provides 240v. A single pole provides 120v.

I’m not an electrician and even I can google and find the above URL. The dual pole breaker was wired to supply 240v .

Bunch of ignorant people on here arguing about how it was wired incorrectly.. feel free to read the above URL

The claim is not that the breaker itself was wired incorrectly, but rather that the receptacle was wired incorrectly. A dual pole breaker is required for a 240V circuit (in North America), but that's not the only thing it can be used to power. It could also be applied to a pair of otherwise unrelated 120V circuits sharing a neutral, as in some areas is or at least was relatively common. It could be used to feed a subpanel which has 120V or 240V circuits. It could indeed also be used to feed a single 120V circuit, though it's rather silly to do so as a single pole breaker is smaller and less expensive.

At any rate, I'm glad you've gotten it all sorted out, and I'm genuinely sorry for the number of people who jumped on you for no good reason.

The arguement has been that the wiring was incorrect which is false. Like you said, you can wire a 240v breaker to put out 120v, but thats not really the best practice. The main issue is that I had a dual pole breaker, when it should have been a single.

The wiring was fine at the breaker box and even to the outlet. The issue is that the dual pole breaker should have been a single. As soon as we swapped the breaker, everything worked fine. So.. again, as I've stated a dozen times, it was the incorrect breaker.

Either way, lesson learned.