A question for US expats who shipped their household goods — that should narrow things down. We've got everything working except the LG dryer. An electrician/appliance guy is coming over (even he learned something with the washer). I have a few ideas about the fix. Any advice on getting it working?
A dryer... you're in very rare company. Are you raising unicorns out in the province to keep your dryer (a unicorn) company? Welcome, and enjoy the journey.
Is it an LG gas or electric dryer? What's the model number? If it's a 240V dryer and you have 230V single-phase power (most of the Philippines, except parts of Meralco), you need a large transformer with a 230V primary and a 240V center-tapped secondary to give you two 120V legs out of phase plus a neutral.
We didn't move ours, but we just bought our first commercial Whirlpool dryer and found out it needs its own 60-amp connection because it's electric. So we're reconfiguring our 60-panel solar system with 32kW (16x2) inverters and 128kW of batteries to give the dryer its own breaker, independent of the household circuits. It'll be connected directly to both the power grid and our solar through the automatic transfer switch. And it turns out some electric meters for modest houses and construction sites can't even carry enough power for a dryer or a 6 hp air conditioner without upgrading the meter first. I should add that we spent a staggering amount of money rewiring the whole house, changing the meter, grounding every outlet with two copper grounds on either side of the house, and running more than 5 km of wire through the house so no section would get hot enough to burst into flames. We found out the house was originally wired with something like speaker wire, and when we went to pull the old wire out we found spots where it had actually caught fire. It came loose with live ends. Grounding is a whole other issue... few electricians even understand it, and they'll tell you the whole house is grounded so the outlets don't need grounds. Not sure if this affects your question, but it's worth knowing
Ohhhkkkk... I won't criticize…. but… Don't you have enough headaches already? Sure, I could reconfigure and wire it for you, but you'd owe me so much you might as well buy a new one here in the Philippines. Besides, you should go propane anyway.
Your electrician/appliance guy learning something on the washer is pretty worrying, because a dryer is way more complicated.
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