Fortunately I already have the element and my own impact wrench, but not the correct size socket. The largest I have is a 32mm, and that's not even close.
Will stop by Harbor Freight with the new element on the way to the airport, then over and out until Friday. Thanks all! Steve On Aug 28, 2016, at 12:19 PM, Ira <[email protected]> wrote: Hello Ben, Sunday, August 28, 2016, 9:00:23 AM, you wrote: Still scratching my head over the resistance, but...walks like a duck, quacks like a duck... A GFI will trip with a 10 meg ohm resistance and many meters see that as an open as in the world of auto mechanics, home owners and electricians, the need to see that high a resistance is essentially never needed and making it happen costs money they don't want to spend. My Fluke can see stuff like that, but it cost close to $400. The reason I had him try measuring the case to ground with the machine plugged into a 2 prong outlet was to simulate something that would measure high resistance. The fact he saw voltage when we did that would tend to indicate it was always the element. FWIW, shorting the RTD leads to ground should not be able to cause any sort of problem other than bad readings, it certainly will not cause a GFI to trigger unless the Gicar box is fried in some very unusual and theoretically impossible to occur fashion. 99% or more of the time, GFIs trigger because of a bad element or water dripping on an electrical connection where that water can bridge the wire to ground, most commonly heating element terminals. And in case you don't know, heating elements come out easily with an impact wrench. A friendly mechanic will probably do it for a 6 pack if you take the boiler out. -- Ira -- You received this message because you are subscribed to a topic in the Google Groups "Brewtus" group. To unsubscribe from this topic, visit https://groups.google.com/d/topic/brewtus/NvCLUH025_k/unsubscribe. To unsubscribe from this group and all its topics, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/brewtus. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Brewtus" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/brewtus. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
