I live in BC, so this is about 120VAC house wiring. I have an island in the kitchen that has two outlets on it. It used to have an electric cooktop (before I installed a gas cooktop) and that 30amp circuit is now just used for running the illumination for the gas top. The two outlets are on another circuit and wired strangely; one just simply chains off the other so let's ignore that. The supply line is a 14/3 with the red capped and not energized (checked with Klein tester).

When I put in my ET310 transmitter and check the service panel I find the Klein beeps when I hover over a double-pole 15 amp breaker (which has only ONE lever). This breaker is OFF all the time and when I attempt to turn it ON, it shorts out, there's a spark in the panel (!) and the breaker immediately opens. This was the situation when we bought the house and as it never seemed to affect anything I just left it off, thinking someday I'll get to it...

So, the primary outlet in the island started to act erratically, shutting off and on for no reason so I decided to investigate and this is how I found that the Klein traces the circuit to this double-pole breaker. Now, I'm thinking that the guy wired this circuit incorrectly and effectively somehow looped the two phases on the 14/3. I haven't yet opened up the panel (this is difficult for stupid reasons) to see what's up but was hoping someone had an idea of what's going on here?

Thanks guys but I guess I wasn't as clear as I thought I was being. Forget the 30A circuit used for the few watts the cooktop illumination uses; I understand that 30A is way, way too big a breaker and part of this job is to switch that over to the circuit the outlets are on (as the cooktop just plugs in anyway and isn't direct-wired). It was just temporary until I solved the other problem. This has nothing do do with a not-broken tab on the outlet; the 14/3 red wire is capped and the live/neutral are connected as normal. Of COURSE this circuit should not be on a double-pole 15A as it's just two outlets on the island. To restate the problem: the breaker these outlets are connected to via the 14/3 is OFF nominally because when it's turned ON, the breaker trips immediately. At least, this is what my Klein ET310 tells me. Given that this is a double pole 15A I'm wondering if the installer somehow looped the live wiresss and effectively bypassed the breaker so that resetting the breaker effectively "shorts" the circuit. Thoughts?

I live in BC, so this is about 120VAC house wiring. I have an island in the kitchen that has two outlets on it. It used to have an electric cooktop (before I installed a gas cooktop) and that 30amp circuit is now just used for running the illumination for the gas top. The two outlets are on another circuit and wired strangely; one just simply chains off the other so let's ignore that. The supply line is a 14/3 with the red capped and not energized (checked with Klein tester).

When I put in my ET310 transmitter and check the service panel I find the Klein beeps when I hover over a double-pole 15 amp breaker (which has only ONE lever). This breaker is OFF all the time and when I attempt to turn it ON, it shorts out, there's a spark in the panel (!) and the breaker immediately opens. This was the situation when we bought the house and as it never seemed to affect anything I just left it off, thinking someday I'll get to it...

So, the primary outlet in the island started to act erratically, shutting off and on for no reason so I decided to investigate and this is how I found that the Klein traces the circuit to this double-pole breaker. Now, I'm thinking that the guy wired this circuit incorrectly and effectively somehow looped the two phases on the 14/3. I haven't yet opened up the panel (this is difficult for stupid reasons) to see what's up but was hoping someone had an idea of what's going on here?

Thanks guys but I guess I wasn't as clear as I thought I was being. Forget the 30A circuit used for the few watts the cooktop illumination uses; I understand that 30A is way, way too big a breaker and part of this job is to switch that over to the circuit the outlets are on (as the cooktop just plugs in anyway and isn't direct-wired). It was just temporary until I solved the other problem. This has nothing do do with a not-broken tab on the outlet; the 14/3 red wire is capped and the live/neutral are connected as normal. Of COURSE this circuit should not be on a double-pole 15A as it's just two outlets on the island. To restate the problem: the breaker these outlets are connected to via the 14/3 is OFF nominally because when it's turned ON, the breaker trips immediately. At least, this is what my Klein ET310 tells me. Given that this is a double pole 15A I'm wondering if the installer somehow looped the live wiresss and effectively bypassed the breaker so that resetting the breaker effectively "shorts" the circuit. Thoughts?

I live in BC, so this is about 120VAC house wiring. I have an island in the kitchen that has two outlets on it. It used to have an electric cooktop (before I installed a gas cooktop) and that 30amp circuit is now just used for running the illumination for the gas top. The two outlets are on another circuit and wired strangely; one just simply chains off the other so let's ignore that. The supply line is a 14/3 with the red capped and not energized (checked with Klein tester).

When I put in my ET310 transmitter and check the service panel I find the Klein beeps when I hover over a double-pole 15 amp breaker (which has only ONE lever). This breaker is OFF all the time and when I attempt to turn it ON, it shorts out, there's a spark in the panel (!) and the breaker immediately opens. This was the situation when we bought the house and as it never seemed to affect anything I just left it off, thinking someday I'll get to it...

So, the primary outlet in the island started to act erratically, shutting off and on for no reason so I decided to investigate and this is how I found that the Klein traces the circuit to this double-pole breaker. Now, I'm thinking that the guy wired this circuit incorrectly and effectively somehow looped the two phases on the 14/3. I haven't yet opened up the panel (this is difficult for stupid reasons) to see what's up but was hoping someone had an idea of what's going on here?

I live in BC, so this is about 120VAC house wiring. I have an island in the kitchen that has two outlets on it. It used to have an electric cooktop (before I installed a gas cooktop) and that 30amp circuit is now just used for running the illumination for the gas top. The two outlets are on another circuit and wired strangely; one just simply chains off the other so let's ignore that. The supply line is a 14/3 with the red capped and not energized (checked with Klein tester).

When I put in my ET310 transmitter and check the service panel I find the Klein beeps when I hover over a double-pole 15 amp breaker (which has only ONE lever). This breaker is OFF all the time and when I attempt to turn it ON, it shorts out, there's a spark in the panel (!) and the breaker immediately opens. This was the situation when we bought the house and as it never seemed to affect anything I just left it off, thinking someday I'll get to it...

So, the primary outlet in the island started to act erratically, shutting off and on for no reason so I decided to investigate and this is how I found that the Klein traces the circuit to this double-pole breaker. Now, I'm thinking that the guy wired this circuit incorrectly and effectively somehow looped the two phases on the 14/3. I haven't yet opened up the panel (this is difficult for stupid reasons) to see what's up but was hoping someone had an idea of what's going on here?

Thanks guys but I guess I wasn't as clear as I thought I was being. Forget the 30A circuit used for the few watts the cooktop illumination uses; I understand that 30A is way, way too big a breaker and part of this job is to switch that over to the circuit the outlets are on (as the cooktop just plugs in anyway and isn't direct-wired). It was just temporary until I solved the other problem. This has nothing do do with a not-broken tab on the outlet; the 14/3 red wire is capped and the live/neutral are connected as normal. Of COURSE this circuit should not be on a double-pole 15A as it's just two outlets on the island. To restate the problem: the breaker these outlets are connected to via the 14/3 is OFF nominally because when it's turned ON, the breaker trips immediately. At least, this is what my Klein ET310 tells me. Given that this is a double pole 15A I'm wondering if the installer somehow looped the live wiresss and effectively bypassed the breaker so that resetting the breaker effectively "shorts" the circuit. Thoughts?

I live in BC, so this is about 120VAC house wiring. I have an island in the kitchen that has two outlets on it. It used to have an electric cooktop (before I installed a gas cooktop) and that 30amp circuit is now just used for running the illumination for the gas top. The two outlets are on another circuit and wired strangely; one just simply chains off the other so let's ignore that. The supply line is a 14/3 with the red capped and not energized (checked with Klein tester). When I put in my ET310 transmitter and check the service panel I find the Klein beeps when I hover over a double-pole 15 amp breaker (which has only ONE lever). This breaker is OFF all the time and when I attempt to turn it ON, it shorts out, there's a spark in the panel (!) and the breaker immediately opens. This was the situation when we bought the house and as it never seemed to affect anything I just left it off, thinking someday I'll get to it... So, the primary outlet in the island started to act erratically, shutting off and on for no reason so I decided to investigate and this is how I found that the Klein traces the circuit to this double-pole breaker. Now, I'm thinking that the guy wired this circuit incorrectly and effectively somehow looped the two phases on the 14/3. I haven't yet opened up the panel (this is difficult for stupid reasons) to see what's up but was hoping someone had an idea of what's going on here?

I live in BC, so this is about 120VAC house wiring. I have an island in the kitchen that has two outlets on it. It used to have an electric cooktop (before I installed a gas cooktop) and that 30amp circuit is now just used for running the illumination for the gas top. The two outlets are on another circuit and wired strangely; one just simply chains off the other so let's ignore that. The supply line is a 14/3 with the red capped and not energized (checked with Klein tester). 

When I put in my ET310 transmitter and check the service panel I find the Klein beeps when I hover over a double-pole 15 amp breaker (which has only ONE lever). This breaker is OFF all the time and when I attempt to turn it ON, it shorts out, there's a spark in the panel (!) and the breaker immediately opens. This was the situation when we bought the house and as it never seemed to affect anything I just left it off, thinking someday I'll get to it... 

So, the primary outlet in the island started to act erratically, shutting off and on for no reason so I decided to investigate and this is how I found that the Klein traces the circuit to this double-pole breaker. Now, I'm thinking that the guy wired this circuit incorrectly and effectively somehow looped the two phases on the 14/3. I haven't yet opened up the panel (this is difficult for stupid reasons) to see what's up but was hoping someone had an idea of what's going on here?