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Brettdow00

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Just want to make sure since I don’t feel like being electrocuted. I have a three wire running from the panel to the brewcommander. Using the neutral wire for the second hot. Does the picture look correct?
 

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Looks good, the black and white wires will be your 2 hot legs and the bare wire goes to ground.

I believe code requires the white wire to be wrapped in red or black tape or colored with a marker so that it doesn't get confused as a neutral wire. Since you'll probably be the only one messing with it it's not really necessary.

It wouldn't hurt to double check in the main panel to confirm that the 3 wire cable's red and black wires are on the dryer breaker and the white is connected to the neutral buss.
 
There are 4 wires from the dryer plugin- red,black,white,green. I was just confused since I'm going from 4 wires to three so I want to make sure that the GFCI will trip. I would assume the test button will tell me if it's correct though?
 
You're fine going from 4 to 3 since your controller doesn't require a neutral wire. If you had an old house that only had 2 wires and a ground to your dryer you would have to put the GFI breaker in at the panel so that you could hook up to the neutral buss
 
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