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Posted by Claude Hopper on October 18, 2008, 5:56 pm
Bill wrote:
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> If you don't know what you are doing, maybe best to call a pro...
>
> There was a homeowner who had a low wattage water heater which worked fine
> on a 240V 15 amp breaker. Then one day a heating element went out...
>
> The homeowner replaced the heating element, except purchased a higher
> wattage heating element (wrong element). Then when the heating element was
> installed the breaker kept tripping.
>
> So the homeowner purchased a new water heater and this new water heater was
> a higher wattage then the old water heater. The breaker again kept tripping.
>
> Then the homeowner replaced the circuit breaker with a new 15 amp (double
> throw) breaker. Same problem. Homeowner kept turning on the breaker to try
> to get the water heater to work...
>
> Then with the wires to the water heater disconnected and the breaker turned
> on, there was no voltage to the wires. Seems the wiring was "fried"!
>
> In the end the homeowner had to pay for an electrician to install new higher
> amperage wiring and a higher amperage breaker, plus had the cost of the new
> heating element, the new water heater, and the new 15 amp circuit breaker.
>
> All of this could of been avoided if the homeowner had replaced the heating
> element with the correct wattage element!
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>
Some people could screw up an anvil.
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> When the "breaker kept tripping", after making a single change (replace
> the heating element), wouldn't you think that the first thing to check
> is that maybe the changed item is the problem?
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>
> Mike O.
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