Left the dryer plug in while rewiring the electrical box. What part would a surge kill? The terminal? The on switch? The door switch?
dude, I always understand, and often agree with your posts. But right now I have no ******* idea what you are talking about. Care to rephrase?
Bub, Do you mean you left the dryer plugged in and in the "on" position while rewiring, then creating a surge when you powered up everything...then blew something out?
He switched the main switch on the outside box on while the dryer was plugged in. The rest of the house was unplugged. Surged it pretty hard. Blew something. Dryer doesn't work now. What would blow? I understand that I write in choppy sentences.
I'm not an electrician...but having burned my fingers with a soldering iron enough...perhaps the dryer switch or a relay switch in the dryer...they can only handle so much surge..and if everything else was unplugged..that should rule those out. I'm assuming you have breakers and not fuses..check the breaker switch for the dryer..that might help you narrow it down a bit...and I'm assuming that everything else works fine in the house...
This is irrelevant probably, but how does turning on the power to a re-wired box cause a surge through the wiring in the house? Isn't that what the breakers are for - to prevent just that very thing? Shouldn't the 30amp breaker have tripped first? Just curious.
a) Check all breakers, maybe there's a box in the garage where one tripped. b) See if there is power at the plug. c) See if there is a red reset button on the back of the dryer. d) Buy new dryer, send bill to electricians.
