How do you wire a 4 prong dryer cord to a 3 wire receptacle?

Answer 1

Using a red wire nut hook the 3 wires (of the same color) together with a short piece of wire of the same color. You now have 4 wires tied together.

Now take the other end of the short wire and attach it to the outlet on the correct screw

Do the same with the other 2 wires

Please keep in mind to make sure the wire nut has securely fastened the wires.

Loose connections cause heat which cause fire

If you do not completely understand this answer please contact a qualified electrician

Answer 2

There should be a wiring diagram on the back of the dryer. It is hard to tell without actually seeing the dryer in person. I would call an electrician if I were uncertain about how to wire something safely.

Answer 3

If the receptacle is a 3 wire receptacle then purchase a 3 wire pigtail and connect it to the dryer. When you connect it connect the neutral and ground together.

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The cord to the dryer should stay a four wire as that is now the new electrical code. What should be done is changing the three wire wall receptacle to a four wire installation.

Turn the breaker off that controls the circuit for the dryer. Look in the back of the dryer receptacle box that is in the wall. The three wires coming in should have a bare ground wire in the cable set. It wasn't brought to the receptacle because there was no place for it on the old three wire receptacle. If you find the ground wire back there under a screw terminal, just add another short piece of wire under the screw and then connect the other end of the short wire to the new ground terminal on the new four position receptacle. The wire should be equal in size to the size of the wire that exists around the ground terminal now. If the house is so old that the range cable did not have a ground wire in it, the electrical code allows a separate green ground #10 wire to be taken from the breaker panel box to the existing range receptacle. This wire is to be bonded on each end. At the panel end to the ground buss and at the receptacle end around the ground screw at the back of the box unbroken and then to the new four position receptacle ground lug.

Answer 4

I am guessing that the three different wire colours are red, black and white. This is a connection that is used to wire a split receptacle usually in the kitchen for counter plugs. Look on the back of the receptacle at the gold coloured screws, there is a tie bar that connects the screws together pry this bar out by wiggling it back and forth until it breaks. Connect the red wire to the top screw, the black wire to the bottom gold screw and the white wire to the silver coloured screw. If this connection is made without removing the tie bar, the breaker will trip, as you are putting 240 volts across the receptacle's top and bottom outlet causing a short circuit.

Answer 5

u have to connect them and then cenect it to a different wire then suwter them all together

Answer 6

3 wire