Looks like a fused disconnect to me. I'd replace or remove it.
Is that circuit fused/or a breaker before it gets to this box? If so, there
is no need for it.
If there is no fuse or breaker, then a fuse or breaker is needed. I'd get a
small, breaker box and put it in if that is the case.
Since this for a 220v circuit, you should not use fuses, but a double
breaker so that if one side trips the other will trip also.
What is the gauge of the wire? It looks to be too small to run a drier on.
Mist driers are on 8 ga. Wire. If this is smaller than that you should
Replace the wire back to the breaker panel with larger wire.
Also, there does not appear to be a ground wire in this box. For safety you
need a ground wire for any 220v device.
Peace,
Pat
-----Original Message-----
From: Shop-talk [mailto:shop-talk-bounces@autox.team.net] On Behalf Of Scott
Hall
Sent: Saturday, September 19, 2015 8:48 AM
To: Shop-talk@autox.team.net
Subject: [Shop-talk] Next question: what the $%^& is this thing?
Okay fellas,
This:
http://imgur.com/MGMpgzC
Thing lives in my basement, upstream of where the washer and dryer plug in.
I get that it seems to be some sort of primitive "fuse box", and the 'bulb
socket' is where a screw-in fuse goes. I know this because the thing has a
sticker that references fuses and I found fuses with light-bulb threads on
the back at home depot.
Issues:
1) The sticker references a 20 H.P. (I assume horsepower?) load. Not amps or
volts, "H.P.". The fuses at Home Depot are not listed by horsepower (or
H.P.). What the heck?
2) How's this thing...work? That black wire going out of the picture at
4:00 is the same one you see coming back in the picture at 2:00. I bent is
back that way because it looks like the cut ends should match up. I have no
idea why it's cut, or even if that's where that wire should go. How should I
re-wire this?
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