My hot tub shuts off as I try to adjust my thermostat to a hotter setting. As I approach the “hot” setting, the breaker gets tripped. Any thoughts? Thanks.
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Check the paperwork for your hot tub (open the access cover to the control box if necessary). Find the power requirements for your tub model. The key things you are looking for are the voltage and amperage (amps) requirements. Make sure that the breaker feeding the tub equals what is required.
If it does not, get a licensed electrician to check it out as there are very likely wire size issues.
If the breaker is the proper size, there are 3 possible problems:
The breaker is weak and is tripping prematurely. You need an ammeter to check this.
The breaker is a GFCI and it is tripping because of a ground fault (as it should).
The breaker is doing exactly what it was designed to do and trip in time to keep your wiring from burning up. In this case, you have a problem with the tub. Although I’ve connected power to many of them, I don’t claim to be an expert on hot tubs, but I’d start with the heat element. If the tub is the problem, maybe someone else could provide additional help.
It is drawing more power than the Amperage of the circuit breaker. If your wiring can handle more power flowing thru it then you could buy a different higher amperage circuit breaker and trade it for what is in there now. If not then you can install wiring in the breaker box that leads to the hot tub that can handle the power to the hot tub and then put a higher amperage circuit breaker on that wiring. If you put a higher amperage circuit breaker on wiring that cannot handle the greater power flowing thru it then the wiring will heat up and catch on fire and burn your place down.
Remember this, the hotter is your setting, the greater is the power needed to get it up. The breaker is a safety device that when your heater works overtime, greater amps needed, one exceed, I have to shut it off before it blows up in your face or burns the wire. Got it………
Change the breaker to one size, but before that, PLEASE check your source, electrical lah…….
Dont try to cramp an elephant into your pants !!!!!!!!
Electrical Energy to Heat Energy to heat up your water, they are related……
You need money to walk into a supermarket, dont you…….
Breakers trip due to an over current condition. If you look inside your breaker panel you will notice that some are rated for 15 amps, some 30 amps, and the hot tub is probably on a 50 or 60 amp dedicated breaker. I would suggest finding your owners manual and see if you have the proper type of breaker installed within your breaker box. If this is not the problem then your heater may be shorting out. this can be due to a small allowing the positive and negative terminals to short out. Open the side panel to your hot tub and and see if anything looks unusual with the heater. If you are still having problems I would then suggest calling in a repair man from your local pool & spa place to take a look.
Check the manual. Unless your hot tub is extra special a 60 amp GFCI breaker sub panel spa kit is correct. There are 50amp kits available but I do not recommend. Do not link your hot tub directly into your house panel. If your house panel does not have enough power
to run your hot tub and other household appliances at the same time
you will might not be able to heat up to the level you want when the
washer and dryer are being used, for example. Ensure that you have the correct size of elect cable: #6 awg, 3 conductor – 65 amps.
This is a serious matter if I were you I will get an electrician to have a look at it.