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Customer had a Bad Water Heater, what would you do if you were at this job? #electrician

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Hendy The Sparky

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This project details the process of diagnosing a tripping circuit breaker for a water heater. It covers steps from understanding the initial report, accessing the electrical panel, resetting the breaker, measuring current draw, to verifying power at the water heater unit, and finally, providing a diagnosis and recommendation.

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what's up guys Hy the Sparky here electrician from New Jersey just showing what an average day looks like for an electrician so first thing I do is wake up turn my Milwaukee light on brush teeth get ready and put on my work clothes I eat breakfast toast with butter I really like these tear wild work pants as they're comfortable waterproof and perfect for Blue Collar once I'm outside I go to my work van check to make sure I got my tool belt all my tools and material ready to go to the job today a customer called saying that their water heater wasn't working and that the circuit breaker keeps tripping so we on the way to about to check it out at a commercial office building so here is the building's electrical panel first thing I did was open the panel find the water heater breaker and try to flip it on I then put my clamp meter on to measure amperage and was drawing around 1.8 amps so then I went inside the building to the water heater and check the power so the water heater seemed to be working fine and I called the customer to let him know if the breaker Trips Again he might just need a new circuit breaker let me know what you guys think in the comments but we came out and gave a proper diagnosis

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