[mdmaynard]

Greetings my friends!

I thank you for previous answers to earlier posts.

I have acquired an electric dryer. The wiring previously was 3 wire (black wire, white wire, and bare ground). Since this is a newer Dryer I went a head it went with a four wire to be up to date with code.

At the panel I ran the white wire to the neutral bar, the bare wire to the grounding bar, red and black to the 30amp two pole breaker (General Electric brand).

On the dryer I ran the white wire to middle screw (silver), black and red to each side screw (gold) and the bare wire I ran to the equipment ground screw.

The dryer comes on but never seems to heat. From my description do I have something wired incorrectly? I want to element wiring as the problem before I go out and replace the heating element in the dryer.

Again, you all have been great in answering my questions in the past and I very grateful to have this forum to come to.

[tkrussell]

Sounds good, you should have 240 volts at the black and red at the dryer. Need to test to be sure this is what you have. If there is 240 volts, and the drum turns, then there is a problem inside the dryer.

If you don't have 240 volts, then you may have a problem at the breaker.

[mdmaynard]

How do I test for 240 volts?

Using the meter do I put on probe on the black and one on neutral to see what the meter reads?

[tkrussell]

Test across the black and red to get 240 volts, across black to white and red to white will read 120 volts.

[mdmaynard]

Thanks for the input.

I tested black across red and got 0 reading, black to white got 120 and red to white got 120. So does this mean there is a problem at my breaker? If I test across black and red it should read 240, is this correct

[tkrussell]

Correct.

Are you using halfsize breakers? Somehow you have two breaker poles on the same leg at the panel. Try moving the breaker to get each pole onto reach hot leg of the panel to get 240 volts.

[mdmaynard]

Thanks for the help. I was using half size breaker, moving didn't help. I purchased a regular size breaker it that did the trick, dryer works like a charm now.

I appreciate your help!