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The crackling is coming from the breaker box. The arcing is coming from the control panel on the water heater. None of the other breakers in the box are crackling. The water heater and building are both 10 years old, FWIW.

Thanks. I'll check the element.

I'm getting a crackling sound from the circuit breaker (a 40A pair) serving my electric water heater when I switch it on. The crackling only happens when the temperature dial on the boiler is set to the point where it triggers the boiler to fire up. I don't see any sparking at the circuit...

resistance. Could it be that BOTH relays are bad? If so, then how would the motor still run normally? I then did a live test with the dryer running in heated dry. The relay connected to the heater circuit showed 0vDC at the coil terminals and ~200vAC. I'm not sure what this means exactly...

I just swapped the motor relay with the heater relay, since the motor was running fine before. Now the motor will only stay on if I hold the start button in and the heater element still isn't firing up when I'm doing that (i.e., holding the start button and letting the motor run). Is this a...

My electric Kenmore Evenheat dryer intermittently wasn't producing any heat. Recently, it stopped heating altogether. I tested all of the possible components with a multimeter per the tech sheet (including the temperature selector switch) and found that only the heating element didn't check...