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Re: Name this US 220V@30A wall socket please
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on 23/02/2014, 07:00:57 UTC
Yeah but doesn't the NEMA 10-30 dryer plug have two 110V lives and one ground/earth.  So changing to a NEMA L6-30P the only real hard bit is making sure that you wire up the ground/earth receptacle correctly.  While the other two 110V leaves don't really matter which receptacle that they're wired to.


Not quite.  The NEMA 10-30 outlet has two 110V lives and one neutral.  The NEMA 6-30 wants two lives and a ground.  Your your picture of the 10-30 incorrectly claims the neutral is a ground.

Neutral WAS ground way back when,I've got a friend who needed their dryer replaced,they got a great brand new dryer & OPPS they had a 4 prong on it...............

We ran a new 4 wire as it was real close to the breaker box,but still had no ground in the box.So we got a 8 ft ground rod & drove it in the ground & hooked the ground to it  Wink