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bellisa0509
Oct 14, 2007, 07:57 AM
My dryer is a 3 prong outlet and I moved to where there are 4 prong outlets, how can I hook it up?

esquire1
Oct 14, 2007, 08:00 AM
Red and black goes to the outer terminals. There's probably a strap connecting center terminal terminal to chassis ground, remove strap. White goes to center terminal,and green goes to chassis for ground

Stratmando
Oct 14, 2007, 08:01 AM
I would get a 4 wire Dryer cord. The 2 hots usually connect to 2 of the 3 outside terminals on dryer. Then remove the strap that connects the case(connect ground wire there) should be white wires left on terminal, that is where the white goes.

Stratmando
Oct 14, 2007, 08:02 AM
Doug, Sorry, you hit enter first. Take care. Randy. Good answer.

esquire1
Oct 14, 2007, 08:09 AM
No problem, I didn't tell to get a 4 wire dryer cord though. We both had same answer and hopefully will help bellisa out