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OK So start from beginning I decided to deep clean my kettle full of grease oil etc from many uses so I removed the kettle from my machein and removed the black inner pot from the outer silver metal pot and disconnected the red and blue wire from the inner pot I then cleaned the inner pot and wiped down the outer pot with a damp cloth and let them dry next to a radiator for a few hrs they where both very dry and hot when I put the pots back togeather and connect the wires it trips the breakers in my house and I have to go to the meter and flip it back on If I keep the two pots apart then everything works fine it heats up etc fine Soon as I put them back togeather it trips the breakers I have tried electrical tape on all the joints and on top of the unit inside the outer pot to make sure nothing is touching Now I do have a multimeter and I put each end on the connections on the inner pot and it gives me a reading on the OL setting this is the only test I have done has I have never used a multimeter and no idea what setting to have it on or what to test I have included more pictures too
If you have a multimeter, check for continuity between the heating element contacts and the pot itself; you should see an open circuit. If there’s a short there, then you’re probably creating a big short circuit to ground when you join the pots back together. In the case there is a short, you’ll probably have to replace that interior bowl with the heating element unless one end is bent down and touching or something like that. Outside of that, I guess you just have to make sure those contacts aren’t touching something else when it’s reassembled; it looks like you need to make sure the two holes in the top pan line up with the two holes in the bottom pan.
Hi @Demonloadz d I may be wrong but looking at the images you posted you have marked the red (R) and blue (B) wire connections on the heater element on the left but to me the red wire seems to be connected with the yellow wire on the right. Is this how it is? If so maybe that’s why you’re blowing fuses
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