Background: a few weeks back, had the 5500-watt element in my BK firing to heat cleaning water; started pumping it out, was distracted by guests, and let the element become exposed. Burned it out.
30-amp GFCI breaker popped when I tried to turn it on again; clearly shorted out the element. Ordered new one from BobbyM, I install it, submerge in water, turn on, it works! I add PBW, give it a good soak, everything is hunky-dory.
Fast forward to today: I am brewing. Fill kettle with water, plug in cord to heating element, and turn on my panel. NOTHING! I work back to the Circuit Breaker panel and voila! Tripped breaker.
So I start isolating to see what's up. I unplug my panel to isolate it; breaker won't reset, pops. I turn off all other breakers in the box, go and turn off the breaker in the main box that feeds this subpanel, then back on. I try to reset the GFCI breaker and again, won't reset, pops.
So, whatever is popping it isn't in the control panel, that's unplugged.
Is there anything here I'm missing, or is the 30-amp GFCI breaker toast?
And if it is toast, why would it have worked when I tested the new element, but now it's popping?
30-amp GFCI breaker popped when I tried to turn it on again; clearly shorted out the element. Ordered new one from BobbyM, I install it, submerge in water, turn on, it works! I add PBW, give it a good soak, everything is hunky-dory.
Fast forward to today: I am brewing. Fill kettle with water, plug in cord to heating element, and turn on my panel. NOTHING! I work back to the Circuit Breaker panel and voila! Tripped breaker.
So I start isolating to see what's up. I unplug my panel to isolate it; breaker won't reset, pops. I turn off all other breakers in the box, go and turn off the breaker in the main box that feeds this subpanel, then back on. I try to reset the GFCI breaker and again, won't reset, pops.
So, whatever is popping it isn't in the control panel, that's unplugged.
Is there anything here I'm missing, or is the 30-amp GFCI breaker toast?
And if it is toast, why would it have worked when I tested the new element, but now it's popping?