Electrical Question - Can't find the breaker for dryer? Recently my dryer quit heating, and during my steps trying to...
Recently my dryer quit heating, and during my steps trying to troubleshoot the problem, I go to kick the breaker sour and back on. The electrical panel have a double breaker which had previously be labeled as "Dryer", but has at some point be changed to something else. We've lived here for a few years but I've never had aim to kick the breaker for the dryer.
This make no sense to me, but there are no breakers contained by the box that go to the dryer. To doublecheck, I go through every breaker one at a time, and even turned off adjectives the breakers, yet the dryer still keep running (without heat). However, if I shut off the prevalent at the top of the box that obviously kill the power to the dryer along with everything else.
How can this be possible? How can at hand not be a breaker going to the dryer? Since it's 220, it should be a very lucid breaker, but nothing contained by the box goes to the dryer. I open up the panel and all the electrical system going to the bars seem to be normal
Answers: The one and only way that your dryer could not hold a breaker in that panel is if you enjoy a subpanel somewhere else. You are looking for a 30 amp 2 pole breaker.
There is one other option. It's a a bit obvious interrogate, but I'm going to ask it anyway. Are you sure that the dryer is electric? Does it have a ordinary sized plug, or does it have a generous plug with angled blades? Is within a metal gas line running to it? That could be why it runs but here is no heat. At some point, someone may enjoy abandoned the 2 pole outlet and run a gas vein, and left the breaker contained by the panel. It won't control the dryer now, since the dryer would be plugged into a standard receptacle.
Hope this help.
Check your panel on the outside of the house (where the meter is). If it's not there, in attendance should be another panel pretty close. That is where most 220v breakers are.