Hopefully someone can give me a hand. I knew it would happen, and it
did, I forgot that I was topping off my hot tub and let the water from
the hose run for 9 hours. That was 4 days ago. Now, anytime the
heater turns on the GFCI trips. I can turn the heater to off, run the
jets, run the blower and it is fine. Heater trips it though. What do
I look for now? Any suggestions. This is an older Cal Spa.

Thanks,
Jeremie

In article . com, "bigbub" wrote:
Hopefully someone can give me a hand. I knew it would happen, and it
did, I forgot that I was topping off my hot tub and let the water from
the hose run for 9 hours. That was 4 days ago. Now, anytime the
heater turns on the GFCI trips. I can turn the heater to off, run the
jets, run the blower and it is fine. Heater trips it though. What do
I look for now? Any suggestions. This is an older Cal Spa.

Find the electrical box(es) that got soaked when the tub overflowed. Open
them up, and dry them out -- easiest way to do that probably is to just leave
the cover off for a day or two.

--
Regards,
Doug Miller (alphageek at milmac dot com)

It's time to throw all their damned tea in the harbor again.

Took the cover off of the big control unit that everything plugs into,
and has the temp controls on it, and let it dry out for 4 days. Even
tried a hairdryer today, still trips GFCI only when heater comes on. I
am guessing either something is shorted or leaking with the heater,
just not sure what, or how, I am supposed to check it.

Jeremie


Doug Miller wrote:
In article . com, "bigbub" wrote:
Hopefully someone can give me a hand. I knew it would happen, and it
did, I forgot that I was topping off my hot tub and let the water from
the hose run for 9 hours. That was 4 days ago. Now, anytime the
heater turns on the GFCI trips. I can turn the heater to off, run the
jets, run the blower and it is fine. Heater trips it though. What do
I look for now? Any suggestions. This is an older Cal Spa.

Find the electrical box(es) that got soaked when the tub overflowed. Open
them up, and dry them out -- easiest way to do that probably is to just leave
the cover off for a day or two.

--
Regards,
Doug Miller (alphageek at milmac dot com)

It's time to throw all their damned tea in the harbor again.

bigbub wrote:
Took the cover off of the big control unit that everything plugs into,
and has the temp controls on it, and let it dry out for 4 days. Even
tried a hairdryer today, still trips GFCI only when heater comes on. I
am guessing either something is shorted or leaking with the heater,
just not sure what, or how, I am supposed to check it.

Jeremie
Replace the heater. Tom

In article om, "bigbub" wrote:
Took the cover off of the big control unit that everything plugs into,
and has the temp controls on it, and let it dry out for 4 days. Even
tried a hairdryer today, still trips GFCI only when heater comes on. I
am guessing either something is shorted or leaking with the heater,
just not sure what, or how, I am supposed to check it.

Keep looking -- for sure, *something* got wet. You need to find it and dry it
out.

--
Regards,
Doug Miller (alphageek at milmac dot com)

It's time to throw all their damned tea in the harbor again.