Hey all,
This problem got fixed but not without a $75 electrician visit and a 2 day delay on brewing my Belgian Quad.
For background info, instead of the spa panel, I had an electrician install a 50 A panel in my garage and I put in a 30 A GFI breaker for my kal panel. This gave me some extra outlets for my vent fan, etc. Everything was great and I had used the system for about 4 batches.
Went to brew this last time and just as I was ready to start heating the strike water, the gfi tripped. I started troubleshooting the kal control panel but fortunately, before trying anything extreme, I unplugged it from the wall mounted outlet and the GFI still wouldn't reset, even without anything plugged in at all.
I assumed the breaker must be bad. Fortunately for me, this $80 part was exchanged for me at no cost by my electrical supply place where I bought it originally. (there was an extra hour+ of driving to their other location where they had the last one in stock, but I digress...)
Got the brand new GFI installed and.....drumroll...exact same problem. It absolutely refused to reset, even without anything connected.
I gave up and called an electrician, who couldn't make it for 2 days.
When he showed up, he assumed bad breaker but I told him how I had just gone through the process of obtaining and installing a replacement.
Then, he simply loostened the screws on the clamp which holds the orange cable feeding power to the outlet for the brewery.
Worked like a champ.
$75 and a ton of hassle for an over-tightened cable clamp.
Thought this was worth sharing for others like me who have just enough confidence to get into these situations but not enough knowledge or experience to troubleshoot. I think I uploaded a picture of the panel in another thread but I will link it here for reference.
This problem got fixed but not without a $75 electrician visit and a 2 day delay on brewing my Belgian Quad.
For background info, instead of the spa panel, I had an electrician install a 50 A panel in my garage and I put in a 30 A GFI breaker for my kal panel. This gave me some extra outlets for my vent fan, etc. Everything was great and I had used the system for about 4 batches.
Went to brew this last time and just as I was ready to start heating the strike water, the gfi tripped. I started troubleshooting the kal control panel but fortunately, before trying anything extreme, I unplugged it from the wall mounted outlet and the GFI still wouldn't reset, even without anything plugged in at all.
I assumed the breaker must be bad. Fortunately for me, this $80 part was exchanged for me at no cost by my electrical supply place where I bought it originally. (there was an extra hour+ of driving to their other location where they had the last one in stock, but I digress...)
Got the brand new GFI installed and.....drumroll...exact same problem. It absolutely refused to reset, even without anything connected.
I gave up and called an electrician, who couldn't make it for 2 days.
When he showed up, he assumed bad breaker but I told him how I had just gone through the process of obtaining and installing a replacement.
Then, he simply loostened the screws on the clamp which holds the orange cable feeding power to the outlet for the brewery.
Worked like a champ.
$75 and a ton of hassle for an over-tightened cable clamp.
Thought this was worth sharing for others like me who have just enough confidence to get into these situations but not enough knowledge or experience to troubleshoot. I think I uploaded a picture of the panel in another thread but I will link it here for reference.