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Any Electricians on here?? converting 230v to 115v ...

By teal_dx
- Thu Aug 02, 2007 6:33 pm #18297 I just replaced my in wall Air Conditioner. The old unit was 230V and so is the outlet by it. The new unit uses a standard 115v 3-prong plug.
I looked in my fuse box and There is a pair of breakers (side by side) that were for the 230V outlet for the AC.

Is this as simple as replacing the 230v outlet with a 115v outlet and only hooking up one of the hot wires, and then replacing that pair of breakers with 2 separate 115v breakers, and then only turning one of them on (the one connected to the hot wire I leave hooked up in the outlet)?

it's in the 90's here, no AC is killing me :x
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By ohDirka
- Thu Aug 02, 2007 6:44 pm #18305 man id sleep at your office if i was you instead of sitting around with no AC...ill give my dad a call here and see how to do this
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Re: Any Electricians on here?? converting 230v to 115v ...

By york62
- Thu Aug 02, 2007 8:57 pm #18317
teal_dx wrote:I just replaced my in wall Air Conditioner. The old unit was 230V and so is the outlet by it. The new unit uses a standard 115v 3-prong plug.
I looked in my fuse box and There is a pair of breakers (side by side) that were for the 230V outlet for the AC.

Is this as simple as replacing the 230v outlet with a 115v outlet and only hooking up one of the hot wires, and then replacing that pair of breakers with 2 separate 115v breakers, and then only turning one of them on (the one connected to the hot wire I leave hooked up in the outlet)?

it's in the 90's here, no AC is killing me :x


my brother is .. i will ask him later on!
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