One correction to this, never place the leads in different hands. You want to use only one hand in case something happens. If you have it in two hands, the current will run through your body and you won't be able to let go.
Yep, I place one lead in, leave it in and then stick the other in, all with the same hand. 220 kills and if I am going to go sticking something in, it's going to be in bed.
Is it reading 120v between both hot prongs? Or 120v between 1 hot and the ground? If it's reading 120v between both hots then it sounds like something is wired wrong... perhaps check each hot to the ground and see if maybe 1 reads 120v and 1 reads 0v.
If one hot side has 243 volts (left) and the other reads normal at 122 what might be wrong? Should i get a new outlet? My dryer wont work and gives error for Power issue
I couldn't get a reading on a three-prong 240-volt range outlet. A Samsung range was just fried by something. All of the harness wires in the back were mounted and charred. So I bought a used LG and plugged it in and it's working fine. What reason would it be that I could not get any reading on that three-prong outlet? The multimeter works fine on the 120-volt outlets
Hmm.. weird. No reading at all.. it just shows like 0? Or does it show something else on the screen? Is the meter in the right setting and everything? I assume so as you mention you could test the 120v outlet fine. Are you using similar probes like the ones I have? If your probes are to short perhaps they are not getting in far enough to make contact with the metal piece inside each slot in the outlet? Why kind of cord does the LG have? Is it the kind where on the back of the LG appliance you have 3 tabs or whatever where a power cord connects with screws for each strand of the power cord and you can see the actual wires? If so, perhaps you can try to test right off of the back of the appliance?
Will this test help my dryer because this is the second time it is without heat again. The first time, it was the heating element, this time I am not sure, but maybe that heat element again!!!!!
I wouldn't think it would be an issue with the outlet as it sounds like the dryer turns on and runs but doesn't heat? If there was no power at the outlet the dryer wouldn't come on at all so it sounds like it could be the heating element again possibly 😢
@@D3RPZILLA I thought I saw a video where someone said that if one side of the 240 v outlet is shortened, and the power is less on one side that the dryer could still work, but that it needs the full 240 volts to be able to use heat? I could be wrong???
@@williecunningham3725 that does sound reasonable but I'm not like an appliance mechanic and hadn't ran into something like that just fixing my own stuff yet... But definitely can't hurt to test the outlet and confirm it is indeed tunctioniyas it should.
This is the exact issue with my dryer and it is because of what you are saying. The dryer does run and no heat. I had my eiectrcal mast come down. I got it put back up and the power company came and hooked back up tge lines. Ever since the dryer hasn’t worked. I started googling and saw it could be the 240 volt power supply only giving me 110v. Well I just watched this video on how to test it, sure enough only getting half of the 240volt. So I’m guessing one of the lines they connected isn’t right, no 110 v or connection to the 110v line isn’t connected properly or I have some other issue going on in my box.
@@D3RPZILLA yeah. Here’s something odd, had two pro electricians set up a weld circuit. Plugged in two separate welders, neither turn on. When they tested it just the other day I saw it with my own eyes it said 240v on the reader. Just tried sticking the plug in and leaving a half a mil gap for my own test prongs, my reading only showed 120 on one side. I wonder if the inner outlet is just bent or something and won’t contact the other side of the plug to give it 240v
