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**Brewmoor** · 12-02-2010, 05:52 PM

So I am brewing today and on both of my boil kettles one of the elements are not working. When I test the relays I have 120v on each leg but when I measure across both legs I get weird readings of 7-20v. If I turn the relays off I get 240v across the legs but, turn on the relay again and I get the strange readings.

I have two 60amp circuits feeding each boil kettles. I have 3 element in each kettle. This seems to be a new issue. My last 6 brews everything worked fine.

Any suggestions?

**IrregularPulse** · 12-02-2010, 05:55 PM

What are your elements? Watt and voltage?

disconnect the elements from the relays and take an ohm reading across the element. What do you have. I know it sounds weird to lose two elements at the same time, but weirder things have happened in the wonderful world of electronics.

**Brewmoor** · 12-02-2010, 06:08 PM

Elements are 4500w 240v. The elements all test out as working.

**Brewmoor** · 12-02-2010, 06:16 PM

Ok problem solved. I was not thorough enough in my testing. I had two blown fuses.

The weird thing was I was getting voltage across the the fuses. So i just assumed they were ok. I did not test the ohms across them. Sure enough they were dead. All is well all my elements are firing.

Thank you.

**IrregularPulse** · 12-02-2010, 06:17 PM

Fuses should always be removed from the circuit and tested alone with an ohm reading or continuity check.

**evanmars** · 12-03-2010, 06:15 PM

If you get avoltage reading across a single fuse, it is blown. There will be no voltage differential across a good fuse.