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Check the appliance's specifications on the strip, tag or plate that is usually fixed either on the back or inside on the frame, just inside the door. On there you will find its required operating voltage and wattage that it draws.

If your home has 240 volt line voltage just divide the watts by the volts for the answer.

Example: for a 2400 watt drier on a 240 volt line, using the formula watts / volts = amps would give you 10 amps. For a 120 volt drier it would be 20 amps.

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It is hard to tell without knowing the wattage of the dryer. Check the nameplate on the unit or the manual that came with the machine If you don't have the manual Goggle the make and model and find out the specifications of the dryer. Then use this formula Watts = Amps x Volts. Amps = Watts/Volts.

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The specifications will indicate voltage corresponding to the amps. However, if you must assume voltage, then use 125 volts since this with give you double the amps - better to be prepared for the higher numbers for safety's sake. In any case, if sold in USA the specifications will be for 120v or so.

Trivia:Remember that the voltage indicated is PIS level, thus an 'average' for this alternating current. This is the voltage used for power calculations(watts). However, the peak current will be 1.414 x RMS value, so be prepared for a peak level higher than that calculated.

Eg.: We have Conair 146LR which provides the following data on the handle: 125V AC 60Hz 1875W(Watts). (This means that RMS current is 1875/125 = 15Amps, and peak of 15 x 1.414 = 21.2amps.)

Soooooo: if you use that dryer on a circle shared by another motor you could easily trip the breaker. Actually, ours has a GFI of its own, and this would likely trip first. I have had that happen when opening garage door while wife using dryer.

Note: I am not an electrician nor electrical engineer or someone who knows anything what they're talking about!!!!

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There will be a rating plate somewhere on the dryer that will tell you the amperage. Rating plate is usually inside the door to the dryer. A typical value might be 24 A for an electric heat dryer.

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Only what it takes to run the control circuitry, gas relays and small motor. Mine draws 6 amps

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Typically a Gas Clothes Dryer only needs a 15amp ground receptacle to operate.

Most current residential laundry rooms are supplied with a 20amp circuit.

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In North America the breaker feeding a clothes dryer is 30 amps.

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120/ 250

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