Hello Fellow Electric Brewers I am look for some help troubleshooting my control panel. I built a 30a Single Element BIAB Electric Brew Panel myself a few years ago from a kit I got on eBrewSupply http://guide.ebrew.supply/ using an Auber PID. It is a 16 Gallon Bayou Classic pot with a 5500 Cameco SS Ripple Element installed. I have a GFCI 30A SPA panel that runs off my fuse box and then my panel is connected to that. I used this panel a hand full of times without any issues. The last time I used it which maybe more than a year ago now. I experienced and issue where in the middle of brew day when trying to boil my wort I kept tripping the breaker in my panel on the 240V circuit. I was able to wait a few minutes while I inspected and and then it would comeback on for a while and then trip again. Happened maybe 4 times. So I have not brewed with it again. I went over the wiring making sure that I had good connections everywhere and wanted to run a test. I filled with about 8 gallons of water and fired it up and everything seem to be working It took about 45 minutes to reach a temperature of ~180 and the breaker tripped once again. I not sure where to begin troubleshooting this. My suspicion is its happening when the SSR is trying to throttle the current to the element something is happening which trips the breaker or heat build up through running it for 45 minutes is causing breaker to trip. Anyone experience something similar or have experience troubleshooting something like this can lend advice on where to start?
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