Hello All,
Couple days ago I noticed no hot water. I have a light switch by the breaker box which actually is a cut off for the water heater. when I first moved in was off and took 3 hrs to figure out the switch was the reason we were not getting power to the water heater. It was the 1st thing we checked. It was on. Checked breaker and I have a 2 pole ( 20,30,30,20). The 20 was tripped. I flipped it back and stayed on. By the next morning the breaker had tripped again. I reset it a couple more time thru the day before finally stopping to figure out what was causing the issue.
When I looked at the water heater I had a leak at the top of the water heater which was dripping into thermostat compartments. I decided to change both thermostats and heating elements. But not when I reset the breaker and turn the hot water light switch on it immediately trips the breaker. I checked the breaker and i get 120v to 120+ with the meter. Nothing has changed but putting in new parts. Can anyone tell me why my breaker is still tripping? Image of thermostat wire not connected but do t worry they were connected when I turned breaker on.
Couple days ago I noticed no hot water. I have a light switch by the breaker box which actually is a cut off for the water heater. when I first moved in was off and took 3 hrs to figure out the switch was the reason we were not getting power to the water heater. It was the 1st thing we checked. It was on. Checked breaker and I have a 2 pole ( 20,30,30,20). The 20 was tripped. I flipped it back and stayed on. By the next morning the breaker had tripped again. I reset it a couple more time thru the day before finally stopping to figure out what was causing the issue.
When I looked at the water heater I had a leak at the top of the water heater which was dripping into thermostat compartments. I decided to change both thermostats and heating elements. But not when I reset the breaker and turn the hot water light switch on it immediately trips the breaker. I checked the breaker and i get 120v to 120+ with the meter. Nothing has changed but putting in new parts. Can anyone tell me why my breaker is still tripping? Image of thermostat wire not connected but do t worry they were connected when I turned breaker on.