spa panel attached where?

[Arbe0]

I am in the process of hooking up my control panel for a basement electrical brewery. I have bought a Spa panel to include with my controller. Most spa's, from what I have seen have the spa panel directly to the hot tub.
My question is if I put the Spa panel, attached to the control panel and the control panel will go to the electric element, will the spa panel really protect the heating element since the spa panel is upstream from the control panel and the heating element is down stream from the control panel? Seems the spa panel should be in line between the control panel and the heating element.
Am I over thinking this?

 

[BeardedBrews]

Yup, you're overthinking it.

Edit for bad information.

The spa panel protects downstream. Put it as far upstream as feasible.

 

[Bobby_M]

My spa panel is 10ft away from my brew area and 100ft away from the main breaker panel. In any case it goes between the main and your controller.

 

[Arbe0]

Got it. thanks guys

 

[augiedoggy]

btw the spa panel should NEVER be mounted to a spa... it should be withing 7-10ft depending on code but never in a place where water would potentially splash on it. and cause electrocution.

I have mine mounted on the wall next to my panel so I can kill the power to everything if theres an issue or I want to work on it rather than unplugging it. I also kill the power here every time im done brewing at home for added safety I guess.

 

[Arbe0]

Plan is to hang the control panel away from the HLT with the spa panel close to it. the control panel has a breaker on the side to shut off along with the spa panel breaker next to the control panel. Maybe need to get the ruler out to find out how far away from the HLT it will be. Not mounted it yet so I could move it.

 

[matt_m]

My 50A spa panel came with a breaker that was compatible with my main panel and in fact was the same part number as the 50A GFCI sold for my panel at 50% more than the big box sells the spa panel. So I put the breaker in the panel and fed an 8-slot subpanel mounted near my brewer and have all my brewing area GFCI protected. And it works as proven by the time I accidentally sprayed water on a receptacle!

 

[golfindia]

My 50A spa panel came with a breaker that was compatible with my main panel and in fact was the same part number as the 50A GFCI sold for my panel at 50% more than the big box sells the spa panel. So I put the breaker in the panel and fed an 8-slot subpanel mounted near my brewer and have all my brewing area GFCI protected. And it works as proven by the time I accidentally sprayed water on a receptacle!

Fresh water? Wow.

 

[matt_m]

Fresh water? Wow.

Yep. Guess I got it wet enough for there to be a current imbalance and trip the GFCI. I was kind of surprised.