How to Install and Wire a 4-Prong Dryer Plug (Including fishing the wire)
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- čas přidán 13. 09. 2024
- This video shows you all the steps to install and wire a 4 prong clothes dryer plug. From picking its location, fishing and wire, installing the electrical box, and wiring the plug.
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Way too detailed for some people but for some of us who have never done electrical work is perfect and necessary so we dobt burn the freakin house down or even get electricuted! Good video i think!! Thank u
Very helpful that it was slow and detailed. Some of the comments say too detailed, but those people have probably already done a few of these. I appreciate how it covered everything.
I grew up doing this exact install with my father for all outlets. I just got a fix-me-upper for my first house and need to install this outlet 8n the kitchen, replacing a normal outlet for a convection/microwave combo. Thanks for the quick, informative how-to. Refreshed my memory, especially about not jamming the wires into the box, but working with them. Also, GREAT tip on the double box with bigger faceplate. I was going to do a single, this saved me hassle and it LOOKS way nicer. New convection microwave successfully installed. Now onto all my other honey-dos. Thank you! Subscribed.
VERY HELPFULL!! i'm a DIY person and i love to learn new things thanks for sharing your knowledges.
"Im a DiY pErSon"
Thank goodness someone wired an outlet correctly. Always the ground is up. Always! Great job and great video.
+Indy Debauchery you are right, there is no national code. If you were in my county, I would fail you until wired to local codes; ground up.
you must work for the local butcher shop! Thank goodness I'm an engineer and can wire anything with no need for second class workers.
I'm sure you do a fine job and good luck to you
thank you for ending this
Thanks, helps me out. I want to make a separate laundry room about 15 feet away from where the washer and dryer is now and never wired a receptacle for a dryer before.
Thank you for sharing your knowledge with us ,being so detailing ,help us ,since some of us we have no experience at all.
Excellent video! I used a metal fish-tape, feeding it in through the In-hole, and then a telescoping magnet to get ahold of the fish-tape inside the wall, and pull it to where I could grab it and pull it out through the Out-hole.
Thank you so much. I didn't know that it didn't matter which hot side the hot wires went to.
Ain't you supposed to use a metal box for dryer recepticle? Or does it matter?
Thx...just got a dryer with a 3 prong and I had a 4 prong outlet. This was invaluable. I am now a subscriber.
Skip to 12: 29 if you came to this video looking how to wire the plug. The rest is just long winded basic remodeling
The two hots are both 120 volts, but they have OPPOSITE PHASE - they come from opposite terminals from the street transformer, i.e. in your meter 3 wires enter : two hots and a return wire called the neutral. The neutral comes from the middle winding of the transformer so voltage between hot-neutral is 120 v, but between the two hots is 240 volts. In the panel it can be seen the two separate rails for the hot wires and the common middle rail for the return wire (the neutral).
Thanks!!! Really good explanation!
Thanks man .... Gotta wire mine up today ... Great vid
New drywall why wasn't dryer circuit installed at rough-in stage
Great video, I actually think being specific and detailed is a good thing, dont see why people have a problem with that. I have a similar outlet in my garage (was used for a hot tub).. The tub is long gone and now I just want to use the 50 amp 240 breaker for a jointer with a basic 240 plug.. Is there any simple way to just swap out the outlets or is there more to it than that?
Just change outlet.
thanks a lot!!..and yes you explain every step
Wow wow thank you..it help me feel more comfortable...on the processes
Nice work
Good video, two things to note; when installing the wires make sure you don't have insulation ("the coating on the outside of the wire") in the receptacle. Cut enough to the point where you can just barely see the exposed wire. Two, don't ever cut back the ground as much as he did in this video, it is insulation, and you should never over expose any wire. Cut only as much as you need to clear the insulation when installing. I don't know why he didn't show the installation on the box, but to each there own.
Why are you telling people not to expose the ground wire? Lots of times there is no insulation on the wire to begin with. There is no harm in that. Weird.
Thanks for the video. Can you explain why there are 2 hots, 1 neutral, and 1 ground? I've seen several videos showing just 2 hots and a ground. What is the neutral for? Is it for a separate 120v application within the same appliance (using just one of the hot lines plus the neutral)? I'm trying to understand the multiple different 240v setups that I'm seeing.
Darron with a four wire system think of it this way... between each hot and neutral is 120V. Between the hot you have 240V. Some 240V appliances like a stove or dryer will tap one of the 120V sides and use that to power the control panels and tumbler motors while the 240V is used only for the heater elements.
There was once a time, prior to 1996, where three-wire service on a NEMA 10-30 was the standard in houses that fed the circuit from the main service panel, and used concentric neutral cable (Style SEU) to feed the receptacle.
The reason for this was to save copper, and cut costs, since ground current was tiny and rare in comparison to neutral current from the dryer motor... The problem arises when there's a fault and the combined wire is loose somewhere.
The fault current then has nowhere to go, until someone touches the unit, resulting in anything from a mild zap, to a full-on electrocution, taking a life.
Mobile homes & trailers have always used 4-wire circuits since the panel in the bldg is in fact a subpanel, downstream from a meter pedestal or other disconnect.
Also of note, using a style of 10-3 romex cable or style of SER cable with NO ground (hasn't been made in decades) has always been in violation of the NEC, despite inspectors letting it go, and the installation existing in thousands of houses./
If you run across these cable types, remove them from service and replace with 10-3G Romex or similar, and a NEMA 14-30 receptacle.
I think it was just 2 hots required for dryer at one time then 2 hots & a ground. Then the Electric Code was updated again that you needed 2 Hots 1 Nuetral & One Ground was considered to be safer.
Man I had no idea you could use plastic boxes on 240v. I always grew up using metal.
You should always use metal boxes when dealing with 220v anytime you use a thicker wire really. Still a good video for diy.
Why not have outlet on same side of stud as fishing expedition so you don't have to go through stud? Cheers!
Good point !
Run it in one bay not 2.
Should still use connectors to secure wire to box.
Need to put metal nail guards on the bottom plate to protect the wire.
Can drill the bottom plate with a 1.5 inch bit horizontally.
Then drill through sub floor vertically.
Great video very informative.
do you have a video on how to add this outlet to breaker box?
Excellent job !!!
thank you soooo much. incredible lesson
THANKS...helped a lot!!!
that's just like mine but can you believe the house's gang box is too shallow! the prior owner hardwired everything! then the equipment failed almost imediately now I have to wire outlets to install my new oven/cooktop and my dryer!
Very good video thanks for sharing. How much you charge to run a 220v outlet.
Nice work, can I ask why 4 wires and not just 3
Old code 3 , new code 4.
So, the wire company can make more $$$.
Great explanation. Thank you
I would like to know if you cover the bare ground conductor with green sleeving? Here in England we have to do this as it also prevents the bare wire touching a hot connection.
why you didnt show to wire in the panel box?
Red and black wires attach to the breaker terminals, bare copper to ground bar, white to neutral bar
You making the job harder & longer than it should be, you should have just took the board up to the right & it would have been a straight run
I appreciated learning how to do it the way he did so I know options. He might've made more work for himself to make it easier for me later!
Would the 3 prong have the required wires to upgrade to a 4 prong? Got a dryer and my townhome has the old plug and I would rather keep the 4 prong and upgrade the outlet.
Suggestions? Dos/donts?
The usual advice is to change the cord. it's dead easy, since it hits a connection block under a cover near the cord entry.
Sometimes people foolishly replace a four-prong receptacle to a three prong one instead of just changing the cord. Pull yours off the wall and double-check that this is/isn't the case. If there's 4 wires in the wall, pop in a NEMA 14-30 receptacle and you're set!
Great content. Thanks friend
Does this work the same for 40amp 220v? Also, is the power off only to that breaker for that outlet or did you cut the power completely to the home? Thank you! Looking into installing an14-50 outlet for an EV
Hi I’m currently doing this same process for a dryer connection but had a question on how the 4 Prong outlet connects to the breaker box? Or how to do it?
Why would you not put it on the left side of the stud? On the plate like you would a range receptacle.
i have a question if you replacing a 3 to a 4 and you need a neutral can you splice onto a 120v outlet to get to its neutral and connect that to your 240v 4 prong outlet?
I have a 3 way coming out of the house the rest is 4 wire haw do i do it
Great info
Thank you sir.
Will that setup support a 220v welding machine if i use a 220v adapter box?? Like a pigtail?
An 1 1/2” hole in that bottom plate seams excessive. In doing so, you have removed almost half the width/material and strength of your 2x4 bottom plate. And it’s more the angle in which you have drilled your holes, rather than the stiffness of the wire that makes it hard to fish. However 10 gauge is a harder product to work with, I will give you that lol.
how about if from the wall there is only 3 wires the red and black and ground and I have the same out let u are showing will it still work?
This time the costumes dryer machines are using only 3 prong wires oulets, do you some video reducing from " 4 to 3 prong dryer oulets", thanks.
Could you have used 10/2 wire?
you might want to invest in a spirit level but good demo though.
If you're real careful with the plugging/unplugging this could work but a plastic remodel box is not real strong for a 220 plug in my opinion.
Thank you very much :-)
I moved into a house and it looks like they did not install the dryer plug right, so I'm trying to do it myself. I noticed they didn't have the exposed copper wire connected at all after I looked behind the cover. The dryer works right now, but i assume I should connect the exposed copper wire as you have in this video right?
***** na just leave it alone
Bad advice: if there's ever a short, the current has nowhere to go. Touch the dryer, get bad shock or possibly electrocuted. That bare wire is the equipment ground conductor and serves a very important purpose.
great video1
Hi Bud was wondering if i wanted to do away with my 3 or 4 prong outlet what can i do with this outlet now no longer have a ELECTRIC dryer went to gas REPLY back with an IDEA PLEASE ???
One thing though if you use an old work box on a dryer outlet and need to unplug it you may pull that box right out of the wall.
James Richardson I screwed through the box into the stud for extra strength in a retrofit-box installation that I did (120V, duplex). Worked good.
It's the amperage that kills you not the voltage.
Is it safe to use a plastic box with 6 awg wiring??
Yes
can you tell me what wire you used? link if possible.
I'm sorry, and don't mean to insult anyone. No one is born knowing how to do this stuff. But after reading some of the questions on this comment thread, I now understand why we have so many houses in America burned down as a result of electrical problems.
These CZcams videos are great but some of these folks think that if they watch one video they're ready to wire the whole neighborhood. SMH
thank greatly appreciated
I need to move my stove connection to the other side of a 2x4. How much extra wire do electrician leave as slack, I need about 2 or 3 inches of wire. Do you think I will find that inside when I open it up.
SuperDagod1
If you're lucky, there's some slack in the attic or basement. On occasion, you can re-route the cable a little towards the far end and get a foot or so that's needed. Be sure to re-staple or protect it to meet code requirements, where you live.
i know, old comment. You either will have to add a J-box (box where you make the wire extensions) or run new wire.
What if I don't have 4 wires on my existing wiring?
nice vid,
Good explanation, however he is installing an outlet not a plug. The plug is on the end of the wire from the dryer that "plugs" into the newly installed outlet.
Technically he is installing a receptacle
is this install follow NEC 2014 standards?
Will a 4 prong work if there’s only 1 hot wire in the wall? I think the one before was a 3 prong is why I’m asking
Please don't take offense at this, but if you don't know more than this, you should have a professional do the work. Any 240V circuit will have at least two hots and a neutral, and more recently, a fourth wire for the ground. And if you had a "3-prong" dryer outlet in the past, you definitely had two hot wires. Don't get hurt.
Is it bad if the black ground cable is wired to a hot lead?
There should not be any such thing as a "black ground cable." If any ground is "wired to a hot lead," you will have an instant short and blow the breaker. Please call an electrician before you hurt yourself or burn the place down.
My existing wires are ok but the ground wire is so short I can't attach it
8 year cable guy here. Chain and magnet my friend.
my 125/250 eagle outlet has the 3 slots one l shaped however the previous owner had tied an additional circuit with the 3 wire. It worked but my dryer heater would go off if I turned the bathroom light on. So doing some investigating trying to eliminate the additional circuit I noticed it powered other lights in the house and a gfi plug. Now they did not have a double breaker. They had wired to two seperate breakers. So if I install a double breaker for the dryer will It burn it out? And what do I do with the other circuit that was piggy backing on the 3 prong plug?
john misko Hopefully, you have fixed this by now. If not, absolutely install a new one correctly using 10/3 WG to 2 pole 30amp breaker. As far as the existing conductors, it would be best to remove them from the last splice. If that is too painful, convert the two cables to two receptacles.
What about the other end?
What gauge wire do you use
Thanks for showing
What is the size of the braker?
thank u
can i take of 120v outlet and use same wires?
Please -- hire a professional before you kill yourself or burn the house down.
What amp circuit breaker do you need for a dryer?
Costa Azul Fishing Daniel Garza I believe it needs a 30 AMP breaker double pole (240 Volts)
You really should of used tuck tape to repair the vapor barrier, 1 pin hole in your vapor barrier can allow up to 1 cup of water to penetrate the barrier PER season
Doesn't the dryer go on the right
I don't like the fact that those blue retrofit boxes make the outlet stand proud of the wall when the faceplate is installed.
when used these kind of boxes (old work) bigger size plates should be used - medium or jumbo. yes, standard size plate will make it stick out.
when used these kind of boxes (old work) bigger size plates should be used - medium or jumbo. yes, standard size plate will make it stick out.
when used these kind of boxes (old work) bigger size plates should be used - medium or jumbo. yes, standard size plate will make it stick out.
Is there another part? The part were the cord connects to the electrical box?
do not use a dremel tool's drywall bit. it will burn the bit and sucks at what it is supposed to do!
what size of breaker did u use for that ..
+Anthony Gonzalez he said 30 amp
National Electric Code always use a 30 amp breaker for a dryer
Disculpen algún que pueda decir cómo puedo cambiar un toma corriente de secadora el viejo tiene nada más 3 cables uno de cobre y un blanco y un negro y el nuevo tiene para cuanto como puedo saber dónde van los cables gracias
el blanco es Neutral ese siempre va con el centro, El negro y el rojo no interesan si van cambiados pues cada uno es igual de 120v(120v+120v=240v) el cable que no tiene color o de cobre solido es Tierra, ese es solo para que este la toma islada, ese va atornillado dodnde esta una tuerca o cable color verde o en una ploga es el de arriva redondo.
gracias por uste pude conectar mi estufa sin tener que pagar
gracias por usteD puEdO conectar
Nobody says what neutral and ground is for.and id like to see continuity between green screw and white scrw wtf.
Would have been useful to see the wiring on the panel end
30A double pole breaker, red and black go to your 2 poles on the breaker, bare copper to ground bar, white to neutral bar
i started watching this on my 16th birthday i'm now 66! get to the fucking point
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strange in USA the power outlet is 110V ,in europe its 220V to 250V and some outlets are 300V
andy roswell and you also use your AC on 50Hz which is silly!
remember Tesla invented the electric so Europe is more advanced you shod travel hihih
Ya, Europe is stupid.
American people are dumb, including your president. All you guys can do is shoot guns and say words..
wait you use remodeling box for dryer ? people don't use those boxes for dryer soon that box will get lose
get a box for dryers costs more but is designed for hard pulling outlets
It will not get loose because it is for a dryer. (once you plug in the dryer it is fixed for several years) If it was for a plug that is used a lot it will definitely get loose. I agree with you.
la cosa es cuando te da shocks! ya no kiere saver nada!!!!!
you know, when working with electricity even though the power is off. it's probably a good idea to remove all metal from your hand. including the ring bud.
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Need help please!!! Recently had a/c unit installedvin my home but the guy that installed the breaker moved my breaker from the dryer to place it in a different spot. Well he broke my 30 amp breaker n I replace it to 2/15 amp breaker but my dryer is not heating up so I bought a use dryer thinking that my breaker broke but it does the same it only blows cold air? What did I do wrong? Can anybody help me????
Most likely he didn't plug both hot wires back in. Your dryer turns on and spins because it uses one of the 120v for that portion, but the heating element needs 240v which is both hot wires (120v+120v=240v). Take a multi-meter or a 240v test prove and check the outlet behind the dryer. You should have 120v on both ends (the center is neutral so one end of the prove goes in there), then test both right and left sides. You should have 120v on each side, if you don't you have to figure out if its the breaker or if the wires on the panel were not connected properly. BTW you don't need 2 30amp breakers, 2 15amp are just fine if its a dryer, Electric ranges do need the 30amp breakers.
A shortcut, is to test the 2 phases. If correct, you'll get 240V (or 208 on a 3ph Y system) and if wired incorrectly, 0v or nearly 0V.
Also as a side note, the heating elements of a dryer are rated at 18-24 ampere, so the 15 amp breaker that was incorrectly dropped in will trip about a minute in, depending on the "trip curve" it's been made to. Cook tops usually get 30A on 10/2, ovens, 40A on 8/2 or 8/3 wire, and freestanding ranges are usually setup as 40 or 50 amp circuits on 6/3 cable...
I have a 220V outlet. I need a 240V outlet to charge my EV. Do you know if there's an easy conversion? Adapter?
Norma Celentano hi there your outlet you have will work :)
"220V" is a synonym to 230 or 240 volts. You'll be just fine, since 120/240V plus or minus 10% has been the law of the land for 30 or more years in residences. Occasionally, you'll see 120/208V because you're connecting to a 3 phase Y system, but that's outside the scope of this comment.
What are you talking about???
Details
Holy cow taking hate to shade this but WAY too long to get to the point.. 13:10 and pause it, here's the wiring diagram...
Top - Ground
Bottom - Neutral
Left side and Right are hot so it don't matter but I like to do it ;
Right side - Red
Left Side - Black
Secondly man you are working WAY too hard. Tie a string on the wire and knot it a couple times, place the wire at the hole you made, use that wood tool to run it down and fish the wire. Pull it through and done.