The_Bishop
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Well, I finally did it.
I was doing a cleaning cycle on my electric system, and was at the end so I was pumping the cleaning solution out into a bucket.
I smelled something funny, looked up and said, "Hey, why is there a festive orange glow coming from my kett..." which was quickly followed up with a string of expletives that would make a sailor blush.
I had forgotten to turn off my element.
Shut it down and let if cool off. Before I went any further, I checked the resistance reading across the element, came in at 10.4-10.5 ohms, so that still checked out. No continuity from either hot lead to the ground, so far so good.
Looks like I dodged a bullet as far as damaging it electrically, but the element itself had burned on a layer of junk. Man, that took a *long* time to clean off. On the bright side, I got a chance to visually inspect every inch of it... No visible damage. Being as I had to more or less polish the element up, I re-passivated it in the kettle with 140 degree citric acid solution, then did a 15 minute boil test.
Looks like I managed to avoid destroying it. Still might pick up another one just to play it safe and keep this one as a spare.
I was doing a cleaning cycle on my electric system, and was at the end so I was pumping the cleaning solution out into a bucket.
I smelled something funny, looked up and said, "Hey, why is there a festive orange glow coming from my kett..." which was quickly followed up with a string of expletives that would make a sailor blush.
I had forgotten to turn off my element.
Shut it down and let if cool off. Before I went any further, I checked the resistance reading across the element, came in at 10.4-10.5 ohms, so that still checked out. No continuity from either hot lead to the ground, so far so good.
Looks like I dodged a bullet as far as damaging it electrically, but the element itself had burned on a layer of junk. Man, that took a *long* time to clean off. On the bright side, I got a chance to visually inspect every inch of it... No visible damage. Being as I had to more or less polish the element up, I re-passivated it in the kettle with 140 degree citric acid solution, then did a 15 minute boil test.
Looks like I managed to avoid destroying it. Still might pick up another one just to play it safe and keep this one as a spare.