Hot Tub Breaker

aapex james

I have an old hot tub, guessing 20 yrs old. Over the winter it developed a leak and I shut it off. Just fixed the leak and was looking at the wiring, for a test I thought I would push the test on the breaker to see if it worked. Nothing happens, tub keeps running. I had my electrician hook it up. I am sure we tested it before we started to use it 3 yrs ago. All looks correct. Took a wiring diagrahm off the net and everything looks good. Is it possible the breaker is bad? any ideas. Or should I have a different elec. come and check it out? Thanks James

thom

yes, it's possible the breaker itself is bad. If you have a GFCI breaker and pushing the button on the breaker doesn't trip it, you have a bad breaker.

Magnettica

Perhaps the circuit breaker is wired incorrectly. The neutral from the load needs to be terminated directly to the breaker and the neutral attached to the circuit breaker gets terminated to the neutral buss.

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JCH2O

Yes check the gfci breaker sound like it is possable its wired wrong ,magnetta is rt. I recamend getting a new one -hot tub
cheers

mdshunk

Many of these breakers have a lifetime warranty. The Cutler-Hammer and Square D one's do, at least. Not something you want to plunk down another 50 or 80 bucks on if you don't have to.

TMG1

It sounds like a miswire or faulty breaker / gfci. wouldn't take a chance a use the tub again before its fixed. sounds like accident waiting to happen.,

aapex james

I changed out the breaker. It work fine now. I need to add a timer now. The old tubs seem to run all the time. Thanks.

bjgelect

GFCI breakers do not have lifetime warranties like their non-electronic kin. Although the C-H series breakers have a lifetime warranty, the CH250GF has only a 6 month, at least it did. Found out that the hard way when I warranteed it for life and it failed after 1 year.

Big Sky General

When in doubt call an expert to CYA.

Sparky Joe

I always assumed this to be the reason why GFCI receptacles say "test monthly".
The electronics are as cheap as possible (even cheaper in some cases), and to excuse liability (though there is no "test log" inside)