One of todays spa repair was a tripping circuit breaker. When a breaker trips with in just a few moments of the spa starting up this is often a heater that has shorted out, as was the case today. If you are in a situation where your breaker is tripping unhook that leads to the heater (take caution to make sure the unhooked leads are not touching anything) and power back up the spa. If the breaker holds you have a bad heater. We stock both complete heater assemblies as well as just the elements.
In todays case the heater housing appeared to be in good shape our tech elected to save the customer a couple of dollars and replace just the element. 2-1/2 hours later he finally got the element in (the second one he broke the first trying to install it). This is a very experience tech and it was just one of those things but it did bring up the point that sometime it is better to replace a complete unit rather then just an isolated competent. While we sell elements only on our spa parts online site we do recommend that you consider the lessons here and evaluate how easy the old element came out. Installing an element can be tricky at times and it takes very little to damage them when installing.
If you are a Do It Yourself-er and want to replace you spa heater let us know which type it is and we will happily let you know if we think it is easy to replace just the element or if you are better off iwth the complete assembly.
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