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Need help converting a 240V outlet to a 120V outlet

I bought this house and I am guessing the former owner had something outside that ran on 240V. All they left were a bunch of wires hanging out of the wall. I want to make it into a regular 120V outlet.

The breaker is a dual 30Amp breaker with a white wire and a black wire coming in. Picture here: (The breaker is switched off)

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Is it easy to make this into a 120V outlet?

I was hoping all I would have to do is remove the metal clip that binds the circuit breakers together and flip only one and I would get 120V, but that is not the case. It goes to zero when I do that.

I read some on the net and maybe I need to move the white wire from the breaker to the neutral pole in the breaker box?

Any help is appreciated.

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lilboyblue13
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Phil Munro

I fixed it. I new that the #12 wire went to the 2x30 Amp Breakers and the #14 wire was never hot, so I just put caps and tape on it and shoved it in the wall. Th #12 wire I took the red tape off of the white wire on each end since that is usually how you designate a 240V set up. Then I moved the now white wire to the common post in the box and I changed the black wire to a 20 Amp Circuit breaker and bingo I had 120V on the line. Checked it from the black to white and black to bare and 120V all the way. I then wired myself up an outlet and that was that.

I was pretty sure it was not that hard. I looked at the wires from a

120V plug that comes right out of my Circuit Breaker box and figured it out.

Phil Munro wrote:

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pbdiddy

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