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I have an Indesit dryer. I pulled it from wall whilst still plugged in and the wires inside have come loose. I'm not sure which wire connects where.
It is a yellow box labelled d.e.m f3cc73002v5 inside dryer and there are 3 wires loose: blue, brown, and green/yellow. How should I reconnect them?
This is how it should be wired using 220-240volt
BUT
There are some things to consider first!
The wires you are using to connect to .. are they the provided wires? there should have been a solid copper U bridge to connect L1/L2 to each other too!? Where is it?
If that is not the original cable you must consider using 2.5mm solid core cable
But also the wire that is in the plug should be the same/similar type! and it should be DEDICATED ONLY meaning no other plugs on that line
Before the stove you need an isolation switch (any electrician that says this is not needed is a bad electrician!)
And MOST IMPORTANT
Be warned if you do not meet these requirements you are putting your self at a electrical fire risk - and this is for ALL 220VOLT Installation anywhere in the world. If you have ome insurance and it burns down and they find that your new stove did not meet these electrical rules.. sorry - insurance void!! Even after installation you need a NEW electrical test certificate to certify there are no GROUND leaks! or micro shorts!
Since you are in Denmark, your mains are 400 V phase-phase, and 230 V phase to neutral. The white and brown wires are two of the three phases, and the yellow/green is your ground. You don't have a wire for the third phase available.
The standard IEC color code says that blue is neutral, brown is L1, grey (what you call white) is L3.
Your stove, since it doesn't have the screw for L3, presumably only needs two phases of power, neutral, and ground. This is what you have available.
You should connect yellow/green to PE and blue to N. I'd connect grey to (1) and brown to (2), preserving the ordering of the phases. The configuration of these two "hot" wires likely does not matter, as the cooktop's loads are likely all connected phase->neutral instead of phase->phase.
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That would be an interference suppressor. It has a useful circuit diagram on it which shows how it should be connected. It also shows what it contains (three capacitors and a bleed resistor)
Some images from eBay:
L is the live wire in brown insulation
N is the neutral wire in blue insulation
The terminals at the top of the picture are for the earth wire in green/yellow striped insulation.
Note that the middle brown wire has a plastic insulating shroud to keep it apart from the blue wire. That protection is important.
However if all these have been ripped out by force there may be damage that needs repair.
All the connectors on this device are male spade connectors. The wires that connect to them should have female spade connectors crimped onto them. If they have been pulled forcefully off, they are likely to be damaged - check that there are no broken strands.
A damaged wire or connection could start a fire.
A loose wire, could blow a fuse or trip a breaker or electrocute anyone touching the dryer.
The safest thing to do is to get a service engineer to check and fix it.