DUH, like we don't know that it takes longer to dry clothes on 115 volts instead of 220 volts in an electric dryer. When I moved into my townhouse in 1981, I did not have a 220 volt outlet for my Maytag 806 dryer. John told me how to change the cord, which I did and when I plugged the dryer in to the regular wall outlet it worked. The only thing that was 220 was the heating element and with HOH dryers it was not as high a wattage as GE, WP etc. dryers, so with the voltage cut in half, the wattage was one fourth of the 220 wattage, but it dried and the electronic control worked just fine since it did not depend on temperature. A dryer rated at 5600 watts total would consume a total of 1400 watts on 110 and a dryer with a rating of 6000 watts total would draw a total of 1500 watts on 110 volt service. Since it was November, I positioned the back of the dryer against the radiator in the room and let it help heat the air for the dryer. Even at 110 volts, shirts washed in the WCI-60 and spun at 850 rpm emerged from the Permanent Press cycle looking just fine.
There was a period in the 60s when mid to top of the line GE dryers had a setting in the heat selector switches labeled ECONOMY. Using this setting dried the load at 110-115 volts.
Not that many people would have considered it then, but if the dryer were vented to the outside and in a place that was heated & cooled, you would have to consider the amount of air you were pumping from the inside to the outside on the 90 to 120 minute dry cycles. However, in this area codes permit a 110 volt dryer to be installed unvented in a condo or apartment. As long as you use an adequate sized sock or pillow case to catch the lint, the cooler air that is exhausted from a 110 volt dryer is much easier to live with than an unvented 220 volt dryer in a small place.
If you do not have someone who is familiar with appliances and knows how to read a wiring diagram to guide you in doing this task, you are better off going with a dryer that is designed to operate on regular household current, but it will need its own separate circuit because it is going to be drawing about 15 amps for an extended period of time when in use.
