Spent 5 years flipping breaker switches before I checked the actual wiring diagram

I was doing a call on a 3 year old Samsung washer last Tuesday in a rental property near Springfield. Customer said it kept tripping the breaker mid-cycle. I swapped out the control board, the motor, even the main harness before I finally looked at the wiring diagram that came with the unit. Turns out the neutral was sharing a terminal with a ground in the junction box from the original install. That was a $400 mistake on my end before the customer even paid me. How do you guys normally catch stuff like this without blowing your own time and money? Did I just miss something obvious here?

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linda50017d ago

Amp meter and half hour of patience would've saved you both time.

claire_wells8717d agoOG Member

Ha, sounds like you found the short cut the hard way.