I have a dishwasher breaker problem. My dishwasher was replaced with a new unit because the old unit would trip the breaker. The new dishwasher is on a designated 20 amp circuit. The new washer would also would trip the breaker after about two minutes.
The name plate indicates the washer draws 1.5 amps. My clamp-on indicates 1.2 amps. I tried a 30 amp breaker just for a test and it also tripped. I disconnected both ends of the feed wire and checked for any shorts with a ohm meter. I found no shorts between black wire, white wire, and ground wire.
As a last resort I ran a romex cable directly from the dish washer to the main panel and hooked it up to the 20 amp. breaker. The washer ran a full cycle with no problem. I'm flabbergasted. Were could the temp short be?
With the ohm meter hooked between all three wires separately I tugged and wiggled the wire were the romex went through the clamps, but no short showed up. If there was a nail short it didn't indicate on the ohm meter?
Thanks.
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I"'m no electrician but i have experienced this sort of thing before with an attic fan.We basicaly can't use it
the fact that when you hook it up to the main panel directly means it works lets me think there is something serioulsy wrong with the electricity between the panel and wherever you hook up the dishwasher. You say you can't find the short but it is there somewhere and furthermore you should have that fixed because it could cause a fire hazard.
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